Program Director SAP Business Transformation EPC

Job description

Program Director SAP Business Transformation EPC

Houston, TX- Hybrid

Program Director to own delivery leadership and to act as the senior LTM counterpart to the client s project management and technology leadership This is a client facing role on a multiyear SAP transformation program for a global engineering procurement and construction organization


Must Have Skills

Own end-to-end delivery for the SAP transformation program from early scoping and planning through the implementation phases that follow.

Lead cross functional integration across engineering procurement construction project controls supply chain and finance workstreams.

Operate the multiparty governance model spanning the client LTM SAP and other delivery partners with explicit workstream ownership dependency tracking and escalation paths

Run that governance through tooling such as Azure DevOps or Jira or Microsoft MPP(Microsoft Project Plan) so that ownership dependencies escalations and progress remain visible to client leadership without being asked for.

Facilitate design decision for EPC business processes into SAP solution decisions project setup and WBS design cost breakdown structures, engineering change control, subcontractor management progress measurement, progress billing, and percentage of completion revenue recognition.

Own the integrated program plan and critical path and manage scope schedule budget risk and quality across all workstreams

Act as the senior relationship owner for client executive stakeholders running steering and operational forums and resolving escalations before they reach the sponsor

Build and lead the onsite and offshore delivery organization including the program leadership layer beneath the Program Director


Mandatory Requirements

EPC domain At least five years delivering SAP into an EPC contractor or into an owner operators capital projects function

SAP footprint Deep SAP Project System or S4HANA project management and engineer to order fulfilment

Program scale- Program Director accountability on at least two full lifecycle SAP programs of multiyear duration and comparable scale

Cross functional integration- Demonstrated integration of engineering procurement and construction execution with enterprise finance supply chain and technology

Multiparty collaboration- Delivery inside a program where the client an advisory partner and one or more system integrators operated jointly

Governance and method -SAP Activate and formal governance with tool instrumented dependency RAID and escalation management

Stakeholder altitude- An established operating relationship with client stakeholders at executive level.

Location and eligibility-Based in the United States Texas preferred with authorization to work in the United States and able to travel to client locations as the program requires


Screening Focus Areas

1.An SAP program led for an EPC contractor or for an owner operator running capital projects including the capital value managed through the system and the candidate s personal accountability

2.How the candidate managed the effect of continuing engineering change on procurement schedule cost and risk during execution

3.The governance model in multiparty program which tool carried it who owned each workstream and what happened mechanically when a dependency slipped

4.Direct experience of SAP Project System or S4HANA project management in a project driven business covering WBS design cost planning progress measurement and percentage of completion

5.A worked example of integrating project execution data with enterprise finance and technology systems including what failed and how it was resolved

6.A program delivered alongside another system integrator or a major advisory firm including how roles were divided and how gaps at the seams were prevented

Skills

Mandatory Skills : Benefits Management, Project Governance, Project Planning, Risk/Crisis Management, Stakeholder Management