SAP Consolidation Project Manager – ECC / S/4HANA

Responsibilities

• The project is focused on the consolidation of several SAP ECC systems into one target ECC system.
• Lead and coordinate a SAP system consolidation project involving several existing SAP ECC systems.
• Manage the consolidation of business processes, system scope, timelines, milestones, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate functional workstreams with a focus on Finance and SCM.
• Act as the central project manager between business stakeholders, IT teams, functional consultants, technical teams, and external implementation partners.
• Structure the overall project governance, meeting cadence, reporting logic, escalation paths, and decision‑making processes.
• Drive alignment between business requirements and the target SAP ECC consolidation approach.
• Support the definition and tracking of work packages across Finance, Controlling, Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, Master Data, Migration, Testing, Cutover, and Change Management.
• Coordinate Fit‑Gap discussions, process harmonization activities, and functional design decisions.
• Ensure clear ownership of deliverables across internal teams, external consultants, and business key users.
• Track and manage project risks, open decisions, dependencies, change requests, and critical path activities.
• Prepare status reports, steering committee materials, decision papers, and management presentations.
• Support test planning, integration testing coordination, defect tracking, and business acceptance activities.
• Coordinate migration‑related activities together with data, functional, and technical teams.
• Support cutover planning, readiness tracking, go‑live preparation, and hypercare setup.
• Facilitate communication between senior stakeholders, project teams, business process owners, and local entities.
• Ensure that the project remains delivery‑oriented, transparent, and well‑structured throughout the 18‑month engagement.

Requirements

• Several years of experience as SAP Project Manager, SAP Program Manager, or SAP Functional Lead in complex SAP transformation or consolidation projects.
• Proven experience with SAP ECC environments; SAP S/4HANA transformation knowledge is a strong plus.
• Strong functional understanding of SAP Finance and SCM processes.
• Experience in SAP system consolidation, template harmonization, process standardization, migration, rollout, carve‑out, merger, or post‑merger integration projects.
• Ability to manage complex cross‑functional SAP projects from planning to execution.
• Strong people management, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Ability to lead business users, functional consultants, technical teams, and external partners without being a purely technical SAP expert.
• Strong understanding of project governance, reporting, risk management, issue management, dependency tracking, and escalation management.
• Experience with SAP project phases such as fit‑gap, design, build, testing, migration, cutover, go‑live, and hypercare.
• Good understanding of SAP Finance topics such as FI/CO, controlling structures, master data, closing processes, reporting, and integration with logistics.
• Good understanding of SAP SCM‑related processes such as procurement, supply chain, logistics, inventory, order management, or production‑related integration points.
• Experience working in international, remote, and cross‑functional project environments.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate between business and IT stakeholders.
• Structured, pragmatic, hands‑on, and delivery‑oriented working style.
• Ability to create transparency in complex project environments and drive decisions where ownership is unclear.
• Fluent English skills, written and spoken.
• German language skills are beneficial but not mandatory.
• Nearshore / European freelancer location preferred.