Supply Chain Program Manager

Program Manager – SAP Supply Chain Transformation

Responsibilities

• Maintain and manage the transformation portfolio roadmap, including business readiness initiatives and SAP-related activities.
• Track initiative sequencing, dependencies, milestones, risks, and overall program health, with a focus on Supply Chain and cross-functional impacts.
• Support project intake, prioritization, and scope management aligned with business objectives and transformation goals.
• Ensure adherence to governance processes, stage gates, and decision-making frameworks.
• Develop executive-level presentations and reporting materials for leadership reviews and steering committees.

Business & Process Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with business leaders and process owners to define objectives, scope, success metrics, and decision ownership.
• Coordinate stakeholder participation plans and monitor engagement across key initiatives.
• Identify resource constraints, capacity concerns, and participation risks.
• Facilitate alignment across teams when priorities, timelines, or dependencies conflict.

SAP & Technology Coordination

• Collaborate with SAP, Data, and IT teams to align business priorities with technical delivery plans and release schedules.
• Provide visibility into project progress, risks, dependencies, and impacts on business readiness.
• Ensure alignment across process, data, reporting, and technology workstreams.

Vendor & Third-Party Management

• Coordinate with system integrators and external partners to ensure alignment with program priorities and governance standards.
• Monitor key deliverables, dependencies, and risks.
• Support issue resolution and promote quality standards, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

Business Readiness & Change Support

• Coordinate business readiness activities, including planning, milestone tracking, stakeholder engagement, testing, and training support.
• Partner with change management, training, communications, and data teams to ensure readiness activities are aligned across initiatives.
• Identify and escalate adoption, timing, and resource-related risks.

Risk, Dependency & Value Management

• Maintain visibility into program-level risks, issues, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Support tracking of key performance indicators (KPIs), business benefits, and value realization objectives.
• Drive reporting that focuses on business outcomes, capabilities, and adoption rather than task completion alone.

Key Stakeholders

• Business Leaders and Process Owners
• SAP and IT Teams
• Program and Deployment Leadership
• Data, Change Management, Training, and Communications Teams
• System Integrators and External Partners

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8+ years of project or program management experience.
• 3–5+ years supporting SAP ERP implementations or transformations (ECC and/or S/4HANA), preferably within Supply Chain environments.
• Experience working with business stakeholders, technology teams, and third-party implementation partners.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes.
• Proven ability to manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and stakeholder alignment.
• Direct experience supporting Supply Chain operations within an SAP environment.

Preferred Attributes

• Strong ability to connect strategy, business objectives, and execution across multiple workstreams.
• Proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks before they impact delivery.
• Focus on business outcomes, user readiness, and value realization.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment without direct authority.
• Strong governance, reporting, and organizational skills with a commitment to maintaining a single source of truth for program information.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.