Sr. SAP Project Manager

Hitachi Digital Services•Marysville, OH

About The Position

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration. Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us. The Senior SAP Project Manager will be responsible for leading and delivering complex SAP programs across legacy SAP ECC and next-generation SAP S/4HANA landscapes. This role requires proven experience managing large-scale SAP ECC environments, as well as successfully planning and executing S/4HANA conversions or migrations. Experience operating and optimizing live S/4HANA environments is highly desirable. The ideal candidate will serve as a strategic delivery leader, overseeing end-to-end SAP initiatives—from roadmap definition and business case development through execution, stabilization, and value realization. This role partners closely with business stakeholders, IT leadership, system integrators, and global teams to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery while minimizing business disruption. The Senior SAP Project Manager will provide strong governance, risk management, and executive communication across multi-workstream programs, ensuring alignment to enterprise transformation objectives, SAP best practices, and industry standards. This position demands a balance of hands-on SAP program leadership, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive change in complex, matrixed environments.

Requirements

Must have good experience managing ECC 6.0 environment.
Strong understanding of ECC 6.0 and SAP modules (e.g., FI/CO, MM, EWM, SD, PP) and S/4HANA functionality.
Must have multiple full-lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementation or conversion projects.
Solution Manager exposure preferred
Strong Microsoft skills, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Microsoft Project, and Visio
Proven experience with SAP Activate or ASAP methodology.
Experience as a Project Manager having managed full SAP life cycle projects
Strong project management skills, including risk management, budgeting, and negotiation, usually with PMP or similar certification.
Experience as an Overall Integration Manager or Solution Architect role on mid-to-large projects
Proficiency in Agile and Waterfall methodologies
Typically requires 8–15 years of ERP project management experience, with specific experience leading at least 2–3 full end-to-end S/4HANA implementations.
Communication skills: strong presentation/ communication skills / facilitation skills (oral and written)
Business process analysis and design experience: strong business analysis skills; process mapping; business process design and implementation.
General consulting skills, including team facilitation, business case development, and business assessment / strategy
Project management: led medium to large teams of 5-50 resources (both consulting and client employees)
Experience interacting with clients and building business relationships
Demonstrated problem solving skills and critical thinking skills
Experience scoping and estimating SAP implementation projects
Bachelor’s degree required