SAP Project Manager (Based in Australia)
Australia, Australia
Contracted
Experienced
About Us:
ABeam Consulting is a global professional services company that specializes in delivering business transformation and technology solutions to clients across a wide range of industries. With a global presence and over 9000 employees worldwide we aim to be the transformation partner of choice for all of our clients.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA Project Manager to lead end-to-end SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration, rollout, and transformation projects. The role is responsible for overall project delivery, governance, stakeholder management, planning, financial control, risk management, and coordination across functional, technical, integration, data, testing, and change-management workstreams.
The Project Manager will act as the primary delivery interface between the customer, SAP/technology partners, and the internal project team, ensuring successful delivery within agreed scope, timeline, budget, and quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
Why Join Us
At ABeam Consulting, we place a strong emphasis on collaboration, and helping our employees grow and develop their skills, offering a supportive and empowering work environment. With a presence in multiple countries and a diverse range of clients, ABeam Consulting offers an exciting and dynamic workplace for individuals looking to build a career in consulting. ABeam Consulting has also recently joined SAP’s regional strategic partner initiative as their first regional partner in the region and has also been recognized by UiPath as a Diamond Partner in providing RPA solutions. With such accolades, we aim to continue driving enterprise and digital transformation initiatives in order to transform the way people work and communicate in the digital age. In addition, our industry team is working tirelessly in order to bring more solutions to the banking and finance sector.
We regret only shortlisted candidates will be notified
ABeam Consulting is a global professional services company that specializes in delivering business transformation and technology solutions to clients across a wide range of industries. With a global presence and over 9000 employees worldwide we aim to be the transformation partner of choice for all of our clients.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA Project Manager to lead end-to-end SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration, rollout, and transformation projects. The role is responsible for overall project delivery, governance, stakeholder management, planning, financial control, risk management, and coordination across functional, technical, integration, data, testing, and change-management workstreams.
The Project Manager will act as the primary delivery interface between the customer, SAP/technology partners, and the internal project team, ensuring successful delivery within agreed scope, timeline, budget, and quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of SAP S/4HANA implementation, conversion, migration, rollout, or transformation projects.
- Establish and manage the overall project plan, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resource requirements, and critical path.
- Manage projects using SAP Activate methodology, covering Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run phases.
- Coordinate functional workstreams such as Finance, Procurement, Sales, Manufacturing, Asset Management, and other applicable S/4HANA modules.
- Coordinate technical workstreams including ABAP, Fiori, BTP, integrations, security, data migration, testing, infrastructure, and cutover.
- Manage scope, schedule, effort, budget, resource utilization, and project profitability.
- Establish project governance including SteerCo meetings, PMO reviews, status reporting, RAID management, and escalation processes.
- Maintain and actively manage project risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
- Manage customer stakeholders including business leadership, IT leadership, process owners, key users, and external vendors.
- Drive requirements/design workshops and ensure timely completion and sign-off of project deliverables.
- Coordinate system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, performance testing, and defect resolution.
- Lead data migration planning, mock conversions, reconciliation, and production migration readiness.
- Develop and manage the overall cutover plan, go-live readiness assessment, command-centre activities, and hypercare.
- Manage change requests and assess their impact on scope, schedule, resources, and commercial commitments.
- Ensure compliance with agreed project quality standards, documentation requirements, and delivery methodology.
- Work closely with Solution Architects and functional/technical leads to ensure design decisions are aligned with the overall solution architecture.
- Manage third-party vendors and integration partners where applicable.
- Drive project recovery and corrective-action plans where schedule, quality, or delivery risks arise.
- Provide clear executive-level project reporting and proactively escalate matters requiring management intervention.
- Support transition from project delivery to AMS/support teams following go-live and stabilization.
- Typically 8–12+ years of SAP experience, including substantial experience managing SAP implementation projects.
- Proven experience as a Project Manager for at least one or more end-to-end SAP S/4HANA implementations or transformations.
- Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA implementation lifecycle and SAP Activate methodology.
- Experience managing medium-to-large, multi-workstream SAP transformation programs.
- Good understanding of SAP functional, technical, integration, data migration, testing, security, and cutover activities.
- Experience working with both business and IT stakeholders at senior management level.
- Strong project financial management, resource planning, and commercial awareness.
- Experience managing offshore/onshore delivery teams and multiple vendors.
- Strong knowledge of project governance, RAID management, dependency management, and change control.
- Experience managing go-live, hypercare, and transition to support.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition / RISE with SAP and/or S/4HANA on-premise implementations.
- Experience with SAP BTP, Integration Suite, Fiori, SAP Analytics Cloud, or other SAP cloud solutions.
- Experience managing ECC-to-S/4HANA transformation or migration programs.
- Experience with greenfield, brownfield, or selective data transition approaches.
- SAP Activate, PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification is advantageous.
- Experience working in large enterprise or regional/global SAP programs is preferred.
- Strong leadership and project ownership
- Excellent stakeholder and executive communication
- Strong planning and organizational skills
- Commercial and financial management
- Risk and issue management
- Decision-making and problem solving
- Conflict and vendor management
- Ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams
- Strong understanding of SAP delivery governance
- Ability to operate effectively under tight timelines and complex project environments
Why Join Us
At ABeam Consulting, we place a strong emphasis on collaboration, and helping our employees grow and develop their skills, offering a supportive and empowering work environment. With a presence in multiple countries and a diverse range of clients, ABeam Consulting offers an exciting and dynamic workplace for individuals looking to build a career in consulting. ABeam Consulting has also recently joined SAP’s regional strategic partner initiative as their first regional partner in the region and has also been recognized by UiPath as a Diamond Partner in providing RPA solutions. With such accolades, we aim to continue driving enterprise and digital transformation initiatives in order to transform the way people work and communicate in the digital age. In addition, our industry team is working tirelessly in order to bring more solutions to the banking and finance sector.
We regret only shortlisted candidates will be notified
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