SAP Smartfield Senior Manager - Products/Industrial

Accenture•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Accenture is hiring an SAP Smartfield Senior Manager to advise clients on SAP upgrades, migrations, and conversions, particularly transformations from ECC to S/4HANA. The role combines client advisory, technical architecture, solution design, and pursuit support, with responsibility for helping clients plan and deliver complex transformation journeys. The position focuses on Products/Industrial clients and works closely with client and account teams to align technology with business strategy and goals. As a subject matter advisor, the Senior Manager represents the Smartfield team in pursuits and helps develop solutions through storytelling, collateral, coordination of subject matter experts across towers, and standardization of the solutioning process. The role contributes technical and architectural input to migration plans; leads high- and low-level architecture design; and addresses technical and architectural challenges during projects. It also involves leading client meetings and workshops, presenting migration or conversion plans, and coordinating with clients, vendors, partners, account leadership, and quality assurance leadership. Travel may range from 0% to 100%, depending on business and client requirements.

Requirements

At least 8 years of professional experience.
At least 5 years of advisory experience with ECC to S/4HANA upgrades, including Brownfield, Hybrid, and Greenfield approaches.
At least 1 year of experience with SAP RISE and related technologies.
Experience leading or actively participating in at least 2 ECC to S/4HANA upgrade programs.
At least 2 years of experience with additional SAP technology tasks, including downtime optimization approaches such as Near Zero Downtime (nZDT) or Downtime Optimization Conversion (DOC), reviewing SAP Readiness or SI Check reports, selective data transition (SAP DMLT/SDT, SNP Bluefield, CBS, etc.), SAP on hyperscalers (Azure, AWS, GCP), and custom code remediation and clean core approaches.
At least 2 years of experience managing sales opportunities while working closely with client and account teams.
Experience supporting Products/Industrial industry clients.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (12 years) of work experience; alternatively, an associate degree with 6 years of work experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with project delivery leveraging AI technologies.
Experience migrating SAP PI/PO middleware to BTP IS.

Responsibilities

Represent the Smartfield team and be accountable to the overall Smartfield Pursuit Lead for delivering the solution.
Support pursuits through storytelling, collateral, pursuit coordination, identification of cross-tower subject matter experts, and standardization of the solutioning cycle.
Contribute technical and architectural input to overall migration plans.
Lead high-level and low-level architecture design.
Lead technical and architectural troubleshooting in projects and identify appropriate solutions.
Participate in technical architecture and design discussions with clients and vendors.
Lead client migration and conversion meetings and workshops, and present migration or conversion plans.
Coordinate and collaborate across towers and work with vendors and partners.
Coordinate internally with account leadership and the QA Director.
Help clients plan their overall upgrade and transformation journeys.