Position: SAP S/4HANA & Ariba S2P Project Support Consultant
Location: Milpitas, CA (Remote)
Job Description:
Role purpose
- Provide project coordination and execution support for Project ATLAS across the remaining S/4HANA build, testing, change management, business readiness, and go-live activities.
- The contingent worker will work under the direction of the S2P Business Leader and designated workstream owners.
- The role is responsible for documentation review, coordination, tracking, testing execution, and follow-up. Final decisions, solution ownership, design approval, and business or system recommendations remain with SanDisk business owners, IT, and authorized program leadership.
Role Boundaries
- Operate as a support and execution resource, not as the business process owner, solution owner, or final decision maker.
- Do not independently approve designs, requirements, scope changes, test sign-off, readiness decisions, or go-live decisions.
- Do not independently propose or select business or technical solutions; document options and inputs provided by accountable owners.
- Escalate unresolved issues, risks, conflicts, and decision requirements to the appropriate SanDisk owner.
- Perform activities based on approved plans, processes, requirements, test scripts, and direction from accountable workstream owners.
Key Organizational Relationships
- S2P Business Leader and workstream owners
- Business SMEs and regional stakeholders
- IT, testing, and data teams
- System Integrator Deloitte
- Change management, training, communications, and cutover teams
Key Responsibilities
- Build Phase Support
o Support the remaining S/4HANA and Ariba build activities through coordination, documentation, status tracking, and follow-up.
o Review project documentation for completeness, consistency, traceability, and alignment with approved inputs; consolidate comments for owner review.
o Capture meeting notes, feedback, actions, risks, assumptions, decisions, dependencies, and due dates.
o Track configuration, RICEFW, functional specification, data, and dependency status based on updates from responsible owners.
o Coordinate follow-up among business SMEs, IT, and Deloitte and escalate overdue or unresolved items to the designated owner.
o Prepare consolidated status information and supporting materials for review by the S2P Business Leader or workstream owner.
- Testing Support and Execution
o Support SIT and UAT preparation using approved test scope, scenarios, test cases, data requirements, tester assignments, and schedules.
o Review test cases and evidence for completeness and traceability to approved requirements and processes; route gaps to the responsible owner.
o Perform assigned testing activities using approved test scripts and document actual results and supporting evidence.
o Maintain testing trackers covering readiness, coverage, execution progress, defects, retesting, evidence, and sign-off inputs.
o Coordinate tester communications, working sessions, access needs, data needs, and follow-up actions.
o Consolidate testing results and evidence for review and approval by authorized business and IT owners.
- Change Management and Business Readiness Support
o Support execution of the approved change management and business readiness plans.
o Coordinate stakeholder lists, change-impact reviews, readiness activities, and follow-up across impacted functions, roles, and regions.
o Review change-impact, process, training, and communication documents for completeness, consistency, and traceability; consolidate feedback for owner approval.
o Maintain traceability among approved future-state processes, system changes, impacted roles, training content, communications, and readiness actions.
o Coordinate training logistics, including audience lists, material review cycles, SME feedback, scheduling, attendance, completion tracking, and feedback collection