SAP Program Management Manager

Accenture•Atlanta, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Accenture is seeking a strong leader to manage complex SAP transformation programs. This role involves translating program objectives into actionable plans, coordinating across workstreams, and ensuring teams are prepared for milestones. The ideal candidate balances strategic thinking with hands-on execution, builds trust, collaborates effectively, and enjoys solving complex problems. They will operationalize program management frameworks and toolsets, stay current on SAP capabilities and delivery methodologies, and communicate clearly with empathy. This role includes coaching junior team members, supporting leadership decision-making, and creating an environment for high performance. Accountability, proactivity, and an outcome-oriented approach are key. The role requires a commitment to delivering with quality, predictability, transparency, and professionalism.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years total professional experience in SAP project environments, IT consulting, or enterprise transformation.
Minimum of 5 years experience supporting or leading SAP programs in a PMO or project management capacity.
Participation in at least 2 full end-to-end SAP implementation lifecycles (ECC or S/4HANA).
Hands-on experience across: project planning and scheduling, RAID management, financial tracking and forecasting, resource management, status reporting, and governance/ SteerCo support.
Experience coordinating phase gate and readiness activities: tracking entry/exit criteria, collecting workstream evidence, identifying gaps, and driving owners to closure.
Experience coordinating cross-functional teams (teams of 4-15 professionals) across business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, and change workstreams.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate’s Degree with 6 years of work experience).
SAP S/4HANA familiarity required; direct experience supporting S/4HANA, ECC, rollout, migration, or transformation programs.
Working knowledge of SAP Activate methodology and Agile/Waterfall/hybrid delivery frameworks.
Proficiency with PMO toolsets: Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Power BI, Excel (advanced), and SharePoint — including configuration, maintenance, and adoption across delivery teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience operationalizing automation, reporting accelerators, analytics dashboards, or GenAI/Agentic AI capabilities to improve PMO visibility, governance, and delivery efficiency is preferred.
PMP or PRINCE2 Foundation/Practitioner.
SAP Certified Associate — Project Manager (SAP Activate).
CAPM, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or SAP module-level certification.

Responsibilities

Lead a PMO function or program management workstream, ensuring effective execution of governance activities, reporting, planning, communications, and stakeholder management processes.
Establish and continuously improve ways of working, tools, governance processes, and reporting structures tailored to the client's needs and aligned with SAP delivery leading practices and Accenture methodologies.
Partner across delivery leadership, enablement teams, and workstreams to operationalize Accenture program management frameworks and toolsets, including Jira, Azure DevOps, Power BI, standardized templates, governance routines, and reporting cadences.
Manage and coordinate program activities across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment on scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, issues, and overall program objectives.
Coordinate phase gate and readiness activities across workstreams, validating progress against defined entry and exit criteria, tracking required evidence, identifying readiness gaps, and driving owners to closure.
Lead your team with clear direction, coaching, and hands-on support, removing obstacles, fostering accountability, and ensuring high-quality deliverables.
Serve as a trusted advisor to client and internal stakeholders, providing recommendations, communicating program insights, and supporting effective decision-making.
Drive timely decision-making by synthesizing complex information, presenting clear options and recommendations, and coordinating stakeholders to achieve alignment and action.
Develop, maintain, and monitor integrated plans, dashboards, status reports, action logs, risk registers, and other PMO artifacts.
Identify risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies proactively, performing root-cause analysis, recommending mitigation strategies, and driving resolution.
Support executive governance meetings and steering committees by preparing materials, analyzing program data, highlighting key decisions, and communicating actionable insights.
Apply AI, GenAI, automation, and analytics capabilities to modernize PMO operations, streamline reporting, improve planning accuracy, enhance governance processes, and increase overall delivery effectiveness.
Monitor program metrics and performance indicators, providing insights and recommendations to leadership.
Build strong working relationships across client organizations, Accenture teams, and partner ecosystems.
Contribute to business development activities, solutioning efforts, and proposal development.
Contribute to the development of assets, playbooks, accelerators, and leading practices while actively coaching and mentoring junior PMO and program management practitioners.
Willingness to travel up to 100% based on client engagement requirements.