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Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services-all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Over 500,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.\nYou Are:\nYou are a transformational leader who thrives in the complexity of large-scale SAP business transformations.\nAs a Program Management Lead, you orchestrate the successful delivery of complex, multi-workstream programs by bringing together business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change teams under a single integrated vision and execution plan. You bring the discipline to manage complex programs through defined phase gates, readiness checkpoints, and quality thresholds, ensuring each stage of delivery is entered with clear scope, decision alignment, risk visibility, and execution confidence. You provide the leadership, structure, and disciplinerequiredto drive predictable outcomes across large-scale global deployments.\nYou bring clarity where others see ambiguity, and you know how to mobilize global teams around a shared vision. You excel at building trust with your teams, peers, and clients, fostering collaboration, and working seamlessly across functional, technical, business, and partner teams to deliver outcomes that matter.\nYou are energized by difficult challenges and motivated by the opportunity to simplify, streamline, and create meaningful efficiencies across programs. You actively embrace AI-first ways of working,leveragingautomation, analytics, Agentic AI, and GenAI-enabled capabilities to improve decision-making, increase productivity, accelerate delivery, reduce administrative burden, and enhance program quality.\nYou are curious, adaptable, and always one step ahead. You stay current on SAP innovations, delivery leading practices, and modern program management techniques. You understand how to translate complex requirements into executable roadmaps and integrated plans that large teams can align around and execute with confidence.\nYou lead with empathy, communicate with clarity, and inspire confidence. Whetheryou'reguiding senior executives through critical\ndecisions,facilitatinggovernance forums, or coaching delivery teams through execution challenges, you bring a steady hand and a solutions-oriented mindset.\nYou create an environment where peopleperform attheir best.\nAbove all, youcare deeply about delivering results. You take pride in driving enterprise-wide transformation, improving how organizations work, and ensuring programs execute with excellence, predictability, value realization, and quality.\nThe Work:\nEstablish fit-for-purpose program governance, operating models, delivery frameworks, and tools for large SAP transformations tailored to the client environment and aligned with SAP delivery leading practices and Accenture methodologies.\n\nServe as the Program Management Lead, providing day-to-day leadership across all program workstreams, ensuring alignment to scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes.\n\nOwn andmaintainthe integrated program plan, managing critical path activities, inter-workstream dependencies, milestone achievement, resource planning, and overall program health.\n\nLead phase gate and readiness management across the program, ensuring each major delivery stage has clear entry and exit criteria, evidence-based readiness assessments, accountable owners, documented risks, and aligned go/no-go recommendations for leadership decision-making.\n\nLead your team and drive alignment across functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change teams, providing clear direction, removing obstacles, escalating issues when needed, and stepping in hands-on tomaintainmomentum and quality.\n\nEstablish and lead executive governance forums, preparing actionable insights and recommendations for client and Accenture leadership to supporttimelyand effective decision-making.\n\nAct as a trusted advisor to client executives and program sponsors, guiding them toward leading practices, constructively challenging assumptions, and shaping decisions that enable successful SAP-enabled business transformations.\n\nDrive clear andtimelydecision-making by synthesizing complex information into actionable recommendations and aligning stakeholders around business priorities and programobjectives.\n\nProactivelyidentify, assess, and manage program risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, driving mitigation plans and ensuring accountability through resolution.\n\nMonitor and manage program financials, resourceutilization, forecasting, delivery performance, and value realization metrics to ensure successful outcomes and contractual commitments.\n\nChampion AI-first delivery practices byleveragingAgentic AI, GenAI, automation, analytics, and digital accelerators to modernize program delivery, improve visibility, streamline planning and reporting, strengthen governance, enhance decision-making, and drive measurable gains in productivity, quality, predictability, and value realization.\n\nBuild andmaintainstrong relationships with client stakeholders, SAP partners, and Accenture leadership to foster collaboration and ensure program success.\n\nSupport origination and sales pursuits by shaping delivery strategies, defining program approaches, contributing to proposals, and bringing real-world delivery experience to help win new business.\n\nBe a thought leader, contributing to the evolution of SAP delivery methodologies, AI-enabled delivery assets, program management accelerators, and leading practices while coaching and developing the next generation of SAP transformation leaders.\n\nWillingness to travel up to 100% based on client engagement requirements.\nHere's what you need:\nMinimum of 8 years of total professional experience in SAP consulting, enterprise technology, or business transformation. \nMinimum of 8 years leading large-scale SAP programs or enterprise ERP transformations in a program or workstream lead capacity.\nMinimum 3 full end-to-end SAP implementation lifecycles, with at least 1 SAP S/4HANA transformation. \nAt least 2 years experience in a delivery or account management role with direct P&L, budget, or contractual accountability. \nDemonstrated experience managing programs of $5M+ in total project value. \nProven experience establishing and leading integrated program delivery across business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change management workstreams. \nExperience managing geographically distributed teams across onshore, offshore, and nearshore delivery models (Global Delivery Model)\nDemonstrated ability to lead phase gate and readiness management, including evidence-based go/no-go decisions with executive accountability. \nPrior experience within a major consulting organization (Big 4, Tier-1 SI) or leading large-scale ERP transformations in industry. \nBachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate’s Degree with 6 years of work experience)\nTechnical & Functional Knowledge:\nSAP S/4HANA transformation expertise required; deep knowledge of at least one implementation methodology (SAP Activate, RISE with SAP). \nStrong command of integrated program management disciplines: critical path management, RICEFW oversight, cutover planning, data migration, and go-live readiness. \nProficiency with program governance tools and reporting platforms such as Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Power BI, Excel, and SharePoint. \nDemonstrated use of GenAI, Agentic AI, automation, and analytics to modernize program delivery - improving decision-making, accelerating reporting, reducing administrative burden, and enhancing program quality and predictability. \nPreferred Certifications:\nPMP (Project Management Professional) or PRINCE2 Practitioner. \nSAP Certified Associate - Project Manager (SAP Activate). \nPMI-ACP, Scrum Master, SAP module-level certification, or equivalent agile/hybrid delivery credential. \nCompensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.\nWe anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/05/2026.\nAccenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture\nRole Location Annual Salary Range\nCalifornia $132,500 to $271,000\nColorado $132,500 to $234,100\nConnecticut $132,500 to $234,100\nDistrict of Columbia $141,100 to $249,300\nIllinois $122,700 to $234,100\nMaine $112,900 to $199,500\nMaryland $132,500 to $234,100\nMassachusetts $132,500 to $249,300\nMinnesota $132,500 to $234,100\nNew York $122,700 to $271,000\nNew Jersey $141,100 to $271,000\nOhio $122,700 to $216,800\nVirginia $122,700 to $249,300\nWashington $141,100 to $249,300\nAbout Accenture\nAccenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us atwww.accenture.com\nWhat We Believe\nWe have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. 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