Transformation Lead

Location Columbus, OH

Duration 5 Months

Interview Type Virtual / In-Person

Note Candidate must be okay with working just a 16-hour work week; this is not a full-time position. Candidate is expected to travel to the office in Marysville, OH 3 days a week. Please work with a single layer of vendor only.

Job Description 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 with focus in SAP R2R area. 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.

Required

• Must have good experience managing ECC 6.0 environment specifically focused on the R2R area.
• Define and execute the R2R practice vision, growth roadmap, and service offerings, across the core process areas of SAP Finance (Universal Journal, General Ledger), CO-PA, Project Systems, Asset Accounting, Group Reporting & Consolidation, Treasury, FP&A, RAR, RE-FX, integration with OTC (Order to Cash), P2P (Procure to Pay), and other upstream/downstream processes. Country specific localizations.
• Lead RFP responses, Solution proposals, estimations, and client presentations. Conduct value discovery workshops with CFOs and Finance leadership teams. Contribute to the building of our Pre-Configured Accelerators and AI solutions. Create a pitch for their move from ECC to S/4.
• Must have multiple full-lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementation or conversion projects.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to CFOs, Controllers, and Finance Transformation leaders. Lead executive steering committees and transformation governance forums.
• 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.
• Bachelor's degree required

Additional Skills

• 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.
• Auto industry experience desired
• Communication skills: strong presentation/ communication skills / facilitation skills (oral and written)
• Experience presenting to large groups focused on SAP solutions and functionality
• 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

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