SAP Project Manager

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Lead SAP project planning and governance, including project charters, work breakdown structures, integrated schedules, budgets, resource plans, milestones and workstream responsibilities.
• Coordinate SAP functional teams, ABAP/Fiori developers, Basis and security teams, integration specialists, data teams, testing teams, business process owners, infrastructure, cybersecurity and implementation partners.
• Manage requirements, fit-to-standard outcomes, process designs, functional and technical specifications, integrations, custom developments, roles, data objects and requirements traceability.
• Control release scope, sprint and deployment plans, system environments, transports, dependencies, defects and configuration/development readiness.
• Plan and govern System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, performance testing, security testing and data reconciliation.
• Manage data migration activities, mock loads, reconciliation, cutover planning, interface freezes, rollback arrangements, go-live command centres and stabilization.
• Monitor implementation partner deliverables, estimates, change requests, acceptance criteria, commercial milestones and knowledge transfer.
• Maintain risk, assumption, issue and dependency (RAID) logs, decision registers, action trackers, change controls, quality findings and approval records.
• Prepare project dashboards, weekly status reports, steering committee presentations, release-readiness updates and executive decision papers.
• Coordinate user training, change communications, operational handover, hypercare, transition to application maintenance and support teams, project closure and benefits tracking.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Finance, Supply Chain or a related discipline.
• 5-10 years of relevant experience in enterprise application delivery, including management of SAP projects or major SAP workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience delivering SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA implementations, upgrades, rollouts or migrations.
• Experience coordinating multiple SAP delivery dimensions, such as functional processes, custom development, integrations, data migration, security, testing and cutover.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Activate or a comparable ERP delivery methodology.
• Proven project planning, governance, scope, risk, dependency, budget, vendor and quality management capabilities.
• Experience coordinating implementation partners and managing cross-functional business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong communication, workshop facilitation, problem-solving and executive reporting skills.
• Professional English communication and documentation skills.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP or PRINCE2 certification.
• SAP Activate certification or relevant SAP delivery certifications.
• Experience in manufacturing, steel, metals or other industrial and asset-intensive environments.
• Experience managing multi-vendor SAP programmes or complex enterprise implementations.

What Success Looks Like

Application Notes

• Interested candidates: Please apply with an updated CV highlighting your SAP project delivery experience, the SAP environments you have worked with, and your responsibilities across implementation, migration, testing and go-live.