Americas S/4 Program Specialist

Chr Hansen

$84K — $116K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Information Systems, Project Management, or related field.
  • 2-5 years of experience in business processes, projects, or operations.
  • Experience coordinating activities with multiple stakeholders and priorities.
  • Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver on timelines.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and Outlook.
  • Ability to build relationships and drive action across organizational levels.

Responsibilities

  • Support planning and execution of S/4 deployment activities across the Americas.
  • Coordinate business participation through all project phases from Explore to hypercare.
  • Develop and maintain project plans, milestone trackers, and action logs.
  • Prepare governance materials such as dashboards and status updates.
  • Partner with site managers and end users for engagement and readiness.
  • Support testing logistics and risk identification during go-live.
  • Monitor and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies as needed.

Benefits

  • 401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution
  • Minimum of 3 weeks' vacation plus 12 holidays and 2 weeks of wellness time
  • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Healthcare savings account with employer contribution
  • Employee assistance program
  • Parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Benefits effective from day one
Full Job Description
Americas S/4 Program Specialist

In this role, you will help connect project teams, site leadership, and business stakeholders throughout the S/4 program journey. Working closely with regional and global partners, you will support deployment readiness, testing, go-live activities, and post-deployment stabilization while helping ensure business continuity across multiple sites throughout the Americas.

The Role & Your Impact

As the Americas S/4 Specialist, you will serve as a critical coordination point between regional business teams, project leadership, implementation partners, and site stakeholders. This is a highly collaborative role that combines project coordination, stakeholder engagement, deployment support, and PMO execution to help ensure successful adoption of S/4 across the Americas.

Key responsibilities include:
  • Support planning and execution of S/4 deployment activities across the Americas
  • Coordinate business participation throughout Explore, Build, Realize, testing, deployment preparation, go-live, and hypercare phases.
  • Develop and maintain project plans, milestone trackers, action logs, decision logs, and dependency trackers.
  • Prepare governance materials including dashboards, presentations, status updates, meeting agendas, minutes, and follow-up actions.
  • Partner with site managers, supervisors, super users, and end users to drive engagement, readiness, and issue visibility.
  • Support testing logistics, deployment readiness activities, go-live execution, risk identification, and hypercare follow-up.
  • Monitor risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation activities, escalating concerns through the Americas PMO as appropriate.
  • Help sites prepare for operational impacts and business continuity requirements during testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization activities.


What You'll Need to Be Successful
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Information Systems, Project Management, or a related field.
  • 2-5 years of experience supporting business processes, projects, programs, operations, or continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Experience coordinating activities involving multiple stakeholders, functions, locations, or competing priorities.
  • Strong organizational, communication, problem-solving, and follow-up skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver on established timelines.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and Outlook.
  • Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management capabilities.
  • Ability to build relationships across organizational levels and drive action through influence.
  • Adaptability and a proactive mindset in a fast-paced project environment.


Additional Skills & Interests We Value

While not required, the following qualifications would be an advantage:
  • Experience supporting manufacturing, supply chain, finance, quality, ERP, or business operations environments.
  • Exposure to SAP, S/4HANA, or other enterprise transformation programs.
  • Experience supporting testing, deployment, change management, or go-live activities.
  • Experience preparing leadership presentations, dashboards, executive communications, and status reporting.
  • Experience facilitating workshops, coordinating stakeholder meetings, and driving action-oriented follow-up.
  • Interest in business transformation, process improvement, and organizational change initiatives.


What We Offer

We offer an opportunity to contribute to a high-impact transformation program that will shape the future of our business operations across the Americas. You will work alongside experienced project leaders, business stakeholders, and global teams while gaining exposure to large-scale ERP deployment activities.

In addition, you'll benefit from:
  • Opportunities to develop project, program, and deployment management capabilities.
  • Exposure to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • A collaborative and supportive work environment.
  • Meaningful involvement in a strategic business transformation initiative.
  • Professional growth through challenging and impactful work.


Ways of Working / Working Conditions
  • Hybrid work arrangement, with daily in-office presence expected during key program periods, including UAT, training, and go-live.
  • Frequent collaboration with stakeholders across multiple sites and time zones throughout the Americas.
  • Flexibility to support critical testing, cutover, go-live, and hyper care activities.
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% to support deployment preparation, site readiness activities, and go-live events.


Compensation & Benefits

Expected pay range: $84,761-$116,546

Benefits:
  • 401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution
  • Minimum of 3 weeks' vacation plus 12 holidays and 2 weeks of wellness time
  • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Healthcare savings account with generous employer contribution
  • Employee assistance program
  • Parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Benefits effective from day one


Relevant Information

Application Deadline: October 1, 2026

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