Senior Manager - SAP-Project Management

Bristlecone

$120K — $150K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of program/project management experience, with at least 3 years in Transformation programs
  • Hands-on experience with Advanced Planning solutions (e.g., SAP IBP, o9 Solutions)
  • Mandatory experience in the semiconductor industry
  • Proven ability in managing multi-disciplinary technology and business consulting
  • Experience with budgets of $5M+ and teams of 20+
  • Strong executive communication skills with ability to present complex information to C-suite
  • Proficiency in enterprise PM tools such as MS Project, Jira, or Smartsheet

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end program delivery integrating timelines, dependencies, risks, and resources
  • Serve as primary accountability point for clients, managing executive relationships
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams including SAP leads and process consultants
  • Drive program governance with status reporting and escalation protocols
  • Manage scope, budget, and resource forecasting, flagging deviations
  • Lead planning activities such as data migration and system testing
  • Drive change management and training planning aligned with go-live milestones
  • Identify and resolve dependencies between SAP core and external planning landscapes
  • Contribute to account growth by identifying expansion opportunities

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional growth and development within a leading consultancy
  • Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams
  • Engagement with highly complex industry challenges in the semiconductor field
  • Critical role impacting client delivery and strategic outcomes
  • Potential for involvement in a variety of innovative advanced planning technologies
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Job Description

What You'll Do
  • Own end-to-end program delivery across SAP, Advanced Planning, and process consulting workstreams - integrating timelines, dependencies, risks, and resources into a single coherent plan
  • Serve as the primary point of accountability for the client, managing executive relationships and ensuring alignment between business objectives and delivery milestones
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams including SAP functional leads, planning solution architects, process consultants, change management specialists, and client business teams
  • Drive program governance: steering committee cadences, status reporting, RAID log management, and escalation protocols
  • Manage scope, budget, and resource forecasting; proactively flag deviations and drive corrective actions
  • Lead integrated planning activities including data migration, system integration testing, cutover planning, and hypercare
  • Partner with process consulting leads to ensure business process redesign is tightly coupled with system configuration and user adoption
  • Drive change management and training planning in alignment with go-live readiness milestones
  • Identify and resolve cross-workstream dependencies and conflicts between SAP core (e.g., S/4HANA) and external planning application landscapes
  • Contribute to account growth by identifying opportunities to expand scope or deepen the engagement


Responsibilities

What You Bring

Required
  • 8+ years of program/project management experience, with at least 3 years managing complex Transformation programs
  • Hands-on program delivery experience involving Advanced Planning solutions (SAP IBP, o9 Solutions, Kinaxis RapidResponse, Blue Yonder, or similar)


  • Mandatory: Prior experience delivering programs in the semiconductor industry - understanding of fab operations, wafer planning, demand/supply dynamics, and semiconductor supply chain complexity
  • Proven ability to manage multi-disciplinary engagements that span technology implementation and business process consulting
  • Experience managing program budgets of $5M+ and teams of 20+ across client and vendor organizations
  • Strong executive communication skills - able to distill complex program status into clear narratives for C-suite stakeholders
  • Proficiency with enterprise PM tools (MS Project, Jira, Smartsheet, or equivalent)


Qualifications

Preferred
  • PMP, PgMP, or SAFe certification
  • Experience with S/4HANA transformations and integration with external planning tools
  • Familiarity with semiconductor-specific planning challenges: NPI, capacity planning, long lead-time materials, and multi-echelon supply chains
  • Consulting firm background with experience managing client delivery engagements

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