Queen Square Recruitment
SAP Program Manager
Warrington
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SAP S/4HANA Upgrade Programme Manager
Location: Warrington, UK
Work Model: Hybrid (1-2 days per week in office)
Travel: Ad hoc travel to London as required
Contract Duration: 8-12 Months
Rate: Daily Pay Rate TBD (Inside IR35)
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA upgrade programme, including scope, governance, budget, delivery roadmap, and benefits realisation.
- Act as the customer-side programme lead and single point of accountability across business stakeholders, IT teams, SAP, TCS, and third-party delivery partners.
- Develop and maintain the programme business case, investment submissions, funding requests, and strategic delivery roadmap.
- Engage senior stakeholders across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Technology functions to secure decisions and drive programme ownership.
- Translate technical assessments and upgrade impacts into clear business recommendations, actions, and decisions.
- Lead assessments across business processes, integrations, custom developments, security, data, testing, archiving, and operational readiness.
- Establish programme governance frameworks, steering committees, reporting standards, escalation routes, and decision-making processes.
- Manage integrated plans, RAID logs, dependencies, budgets, critical paths, and executive-level reporting.
- Coordinate SAP RISE readiness activities and manage dependencies across SAP, infrastructure, application, and integration vendors.
- Drive delivery partner performance, ensuring commitments, quality standards, commercial obligations, and programme outcomes are achieved.
- Provide leadership for business change, communications, training, and organisational readiness activities.
- Oversee test strategy, business validation, cutover planning, go-live readiness, hypercare, and transition to support.
- Resolve cross-functional issues, challenge assumptions, and proactively manage risks and dependencies.
- Ensure assessment outputs are converted into a fully executable programme plan with agreed timelines, resources, budgets, and acceptance criteria.
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Required Skills
- Significant experience leading large-scale, business-critical SAP transformation programmes in a customer-side leadership capacity.
- Proven delivery experience spanning assessment, business case development, mobilisation, execution, cutover, go-live, and stabilisation.
- Extensive experience leading business change and organisational adoption initiatives.
- Demonstrable success managing SAP, system integrators, and third-party vendors within structured governance frameworks.
- Strong programme management expertise covering governance, planning, budgeting, financial controls, risk management, and dependency management.
- Experience integrating business, functional, technical, testing, data, security, change, and operational workstreams into a single delivery plan.
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Nice to Have
- Direct experience delivering SAP S/4HANA upgrades or major SAP transformation programmes.
- Experience working with SAP RISE and cloud-hosted SAP environments.
- Strong understanding of SAP Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, and related business processes.
- Experience within logistics, distribution, warehousing, manufacturing, or operationally intensive environments.
- Experience developing business cases, securing investment approvals, and managing benefits realisation.
- Professional programme management certifications such as MSP, PRINCE2, PMP, or equivalent.
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Skills
SAP S/4HANA Upgrade
Programme Management
Stakeholder Management
Business Case Development
Governance Frameworks
Vendor Management
SAP RISE
Business Change Management
Risk Management
Budgeting
Cutover Planning
Operational Readiness
RAID Logs
Strategic Roadmap
Financial Controls
Resource Planning