SAP Programme Director

Next Ventures; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A consultancy firm in Greater London seeks an experienced SAP Programme Manager to manage a portfolio of SAP projects and lead multi-disciplined teams. Responsibilities include ensuring successful project execution and maintaining strong client relationships, particularly with C-level executives. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in large-scale SAP programs, excellent consulting skills, and industry qualifications. This role demands strong leadership capabilities and the ability to engage with diverse stakeholders effectively.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering large-scale SAP programmes with multi-million-pound budgets.
• Solid understanding of Programme and Project Management techniques.
• Exceptional leadership qualities with a focus on equality and ethical behavior.

Responsibilities

• Managing a portfolio of SAP projects ensuring successful execution.
• Leading discussions with C-level client executives.
• Building relationships within the industry and addressing client needs.

Skills

Consulting skills

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Leadership

Financial acumen

Education

PRINCE2

MSP

PMI

PPM

Tools

Agile methodologies

Waterfall

SAP Activate

Job description

As an SAP Programme Manager, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of SAP projects, ensuring successful safe execution, and maintaining strong client relationships. You will lead multi-disciplined teams to drive delivery excellence, leveraging Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid methodologies. Additionally, you will play a key role in business development, commercial proposition creation, and financial & commercial oversight.

Key Responsibilities:

• Moulding, leading and supporting the safe delivery of large and complex SAP enabled business transformation programmes.
• Leading discussions with C-level client executives to help shape their business transformation agenda enabled by SAP
• Provide leadership, management & coaching of project teams and junior colleagues
• Oversee project scope, cost, quality, benefits, risks, and timelines
• Develop and manage strong client relationships, ensuring successful stakeholder engagement
• Build constructive working relationships within KPMG and the industry across different teams, functions, and countries at all levels and actively building a network and range of experience to help address client needs.
• Support the growth of the practice through internal initiatives and support winning new business through developing bid responses & including commercial proposition development
• Ensure best-practice reporting and governance across projects
• Maintaining an in depth understanding of current SAP & Cloud ERP industry trends
• Supporting service development through ownership and management of our programme and project management tools and techniques
• Actively contributing to the global people agenda including people management and mentoring.

We are looking for you to be a passionate and motivated individual who has strong consulting skills and able to work with senior level executives to deliver large multi-year business transformations enabled by SAP. Typically we are looking for individuals with the following backgrounds:

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience delivering large-scale, high quality SAP programmes (multi-million-pound budgets) across multiple industries
• Excellent consulting, stakeholder management and communication skills to allow you to engage and guide senior client executives.
• Solid understanding of Programme & Project Management techniques / tools and how these can be applied to help deliver success for our clients with a strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall, SAP Activate and hybrid methodologies
• Solid understanding of business drivers that lead to ERP enabled business change and transformation programmes.
• Entrepreneurial spirit - experience of being involved in and leading proposals / bid development and building strong relationships both internally and externally.
• Industry-recognised qualifications such as PRINCE2, MSP, PMI, PPM
• Strong financial and commercial acumen
• Exceptional team leader that advocates equality, acts ethically and responsibly and instils confidence in other
• Motivator & coach people to find meaning in their work and achieve exceptional results, preferably with both onshore and offshore elements.