SAP Principal Program Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with system integrator to develop and support an integrated project plan for the SAP ERP transformation, ensuring alignment with Fit-to-Standard and Clean Core principles across all phases—from requirements gathering to deployment.
• Coordinate with other Program/Project Managers in parallel workstreams.
• Support key planning and stakeholder engagement events/ceremonies such as PI Planning, Retrospectives, backlog refinement, Daily Stand Ups/Daily Operating Reviews, Weekly Operating Reviews/Backlog Refinement.
• Guide teams and leaders in Lean-Agile practices.
• Contribute to comprehensive testing cycles (SIT, UAT), data migration, and cutover planning, ensuring testing and deployment activities align with SAP best practices for clean core and sustainable extensibility.
• Identify potential risks to the success of projects and develop comprehensive mitigation plans to address these risks proactively.
• Lead cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and effective communication among team members from different departments to achieve project objectives.
• Regularly update stakeholders on project progress, changes, and any issues that arise, ensuring transparency and alignment with business objectives.
• Support planning of project engagement events and other significant events with key leaders.
• Track project milestones and assess the performance of projects to ensure they meet the set objectives and deliver the expected outcomes.
• Ensure project teams have the necessary resources, including personnel, technology, and tools, for timely and efficient execution of their tasks.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including project plans, communication plans, risk logs, and status reports.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in the delivery of IT programs by identifying opportunities for process enhancements and implementing best practices.
• Support forecasting project resource, material, and costs within standard PG&E tools.
• Exercise autonomy, independent judgment, and discretion in matters of significance with broad scope and high complexity.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of relevant IT Project Management experience building and leveraging solutions utilizing SAP Technologies.

Nice to Have

• Masters Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience.
• PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification.
• Experience with large / complex SAP S4/HANA program ($MM+ budget) with project management responsibilities.
• Applied experience in SAP Activate Methodology, Waterfall and/or Scaled Hybrid Agile methodologies used by system integrators.
• Delivered large complex SAP programs as delivery lead from Big 4 consulting firm.
• Experience in working in global setting where global design was established and realized.
• Broad technical architecture knowledge SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, BTP and SAP.

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
• Desired: Masters Degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience.