SAP Senior Project Management Lead (m/f/d)

1 SAP Senior Project Management Lead (m/f/d) Your Tasks * End-to-End Programme and Project Leadership * Lead complex SAP rollout programmes across multiple legal entities, countries, and business divisions. * Manage large-scale rollouts, parallel deployments, and M&A integration projects with competing business priorities and complex dependencies. * Assume full accountability for scope, budget, schedule, quality, and benefits realisation. * Establish and enforce robust delivery governance, stage-gate models, and escalation mechanisms.Steering and Executive Management * Prepare for and lead Steering Committee meetings. * Translate complex delivery realities into clear, decision-ready management insights. * Act as leadership presence in critical or escalated situations, including timeline recovery, rollout issues, or organisational resistance.SAP Rollout and Transformation Expertise * Own and continuously improve SAP rollout frameworks, templates, and standards. * Lead deployments covering: * Multi-ERP legacy replacements * Blueprints and template rollouts * M&A integrations * Regional and global rollout factories * Ensure close alignment across solution design, data migration, testing, cutover, and hypercare workstreams.PMO and Project Management Excellence * Build and lead senior project management structures (PMO, rollout leads, and workstream project man-agers). * Coach and provide quality assurance to other project managers. * Ensure a consistent application of best-practice project methodologies (hybrid: SAP Activate, waterfall, and agile). * Drive portfolio prioritisation and resource allocation across competing rollouts and initiatives.Risk, Quality, and Financial Control * Proactively manage programme risks, dependencies, and organisational readiness. * Ensure financial discipline through budget tracking, forecasting, and cost optimisation. * Maintain delivery quality under pressure, particularly during: * Parallel go-lives * Concurrent internal projects * Time-critical regulatory or business deadlinesYour Profile * 15+ years of professional project and programme management experience. * 10+ years leading large SAP programmes (rollouts, transformations, and M&A). * Proven delivery of multi-country, multi-ERP, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. * A strong track record of executive-level programme ownership within complex organisations. * Deep experience with SAP S/4HANA, RISE, or hybrid landscapes.Leadership and Seniority * Demonstrated ability to operate as a peer to senior executives. * High resilience, authority, and composure in complex, demanding delivery environments. * Strong people leadership across senior project managers and cross-functional leads. * Recognised as a role model for project excellence.Competencies and Skills * Executive communication and decision facilitation * Complex stakeholder and conflict management * Strategic thinking combined with hands-on delivery control * Strong financial acumen for large programme budgets * Change and transformation leadership * Exceptional sense of ownership with a strong results-oriented mindset * Structured, analytical, and methodical * Able to influence with or without formal authority * Willingness to travelEducation and Certifications * University degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or a comparable discipline * PMP, PRINCE2, IPMA, or SAFe certification is a strong advantage * SAP Activate or SAP programme certifications are advantageousIn Austria we are legally obliged to announce at least a gross monthly salary of € 4.767,21 for this position.Depending on qualifications and professional experience we offer you a market-based salary. Requisition ID: 21867Link: / Das Mindestentgelt für die Stelle als SAP Senior Project Management Lead (m/f/d) beträgt 4.767,21 EUR...