Data Program Manager

Data Program Manager

Job Summary: The Project Manager, Program Management - SAP S/4HANA Business Transformation, supports a multi-year, enterprise SAP S/4HANA business transformation by coordinating a portfolio of initiatives across Business Owners, SAP/IT teams, and third-party partners. This role focuses on end-to-end Data management capabilities.
Operating within the Transformation Management Office (TMO), this role ensures initiatives are aligned to business priorities, governed consistently, integrated across workstreams, and supported by strong business readiness and adoption planning.
This role acts as a connector between strategy and execution, providing portfolio-level visibility, dependency management, and readiness coordination without owning wave-level deployment delivery.
Essential Duties:
Data Workstream Planning and Execution
Ensure scope, deliverables and execution plans are established, communicated and monitored across multiple data, analytics and reporting workstreams
Master Data Management and Governance
Data Migration
SAP Data Design
Reporting and Analytics
Drive coordination and progress across Data workstreams
Identify dependencies across workstreams
Manage Data milestones within integrated project plan
Ensure Jira details and dependences are complete for each workstream
Monitor weekly progress with Scrum Masters and Data team leads
Business Owner & Process Owner Engagement
Partner with Business Owners and Enterprise Process Owners to clarify objectives, scope, success measures, and decision ownership across Data workstreams
Build EPO and business participation plans with Data leads. Track business participation commitments and identify capacity or engagement risks.
Support cross-functional alignment when priorities or dependencies conflict.
SAP / IT Coordination
Work closely with SAP, Data and IT teams to align priorities
Provide visibility into Data delivery progress, risks, and dependencies impacting business readiness.
Ensure integration across process, data, reporting, and technology considerations at the portfolio level including customer, pricing, billing, and financial integration points.
Third-Party / System Integrator Coordination
Coordinate with System Integrators and third-party partners to ensure alignment to program governance standards.
Track high-level partner deliverables, dependencies, and risks.
Support issue escalation and reinforce expectations for quality, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
Business Readiness & Adoption Support
Coordinate enterprise-level business readiness activities, including readiness baselining, planning, milestone tracking, and participation in design, testing, and training.
Partner with Data, Change, Training, and Communications leads to align readiness activities across initiatives.
Identify and escalate readiness risks related to timing, capacity, or adoption.
Risk, Dependency & Value Tracking
Maintain a portfolio-level view of risks, issues, and cross-initiative dependencies.
Support tracking of business benefits, KPIs, and value realization.
Shift reporting from task completion to business capability and outcome visibility.
Key Interfaces
Business Owners; Process Owners; SAP / IT Teams; Deployment Directors; Data, Change, Training Leads; System Integrators; Transformation Program Director
Requirements
Bachelor's degree required
8+ years project/program management experience, including 3 5 years supporting SAP ERP (ECC or S/4HANA) transformations with focus on Data management
Experience working with business leaders, IT teams, and system integrators
Strong understanding of end-to-end Data processes
Ability to manage cross-functional dependencies and readiness risks
Direct experience supporting Data management in an SAP environment.
Additional Skills
The successful candidate will be a high-impact leader who embodies the following attributes:
Integrator and orchestrator: Connects strategy to execution across functions, SAP and third parties.
Proactively risk-focused: Anticipates dependencies and readiness issues before they become delivery problems.
Business-first operator: Prioritizes adaptations, readiness, and outcomes over task completion.
Influence without authority: Drives alignment and progress through collaboration, clarity, and credibility.
Steward of program integrity: Takes ownership of accuracy, consistency, and discipline in reporting, tracking, and governance artifacts to ensure leaders are working from a single, trusted source of truth.