Regional Program Manager Sap S4Hana

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Yokogawa award winner for Best Asset Monitoring Technology and Best Digital Twin Technology at the HP Awards is a leading provider of industrial automation test and measurement information systems and industrial services in several industries.

Our aim is to shape a better future for our planet through supporting the energy transition (bio)technology artificial intelligence industrial cybersecurity etc. We are committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals by utilizing our ability to measure and connect.

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Our 18000 employees work in over 60 countries with one corporate mission to co-innovate tomorrow. We are looking for dynamic colleagues who share our passion for technology and care for our return we offer you great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect value creation collaboration integrity and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.

Yokogawa is on the move transforming itself from Industrial Automation to Industrial Autonomy (IA2IA) provider with advanced technologies allowing devices equipment business and production systems or even entire plants to operate autonomously. We werethe worlds first company to develop a distributed process control system for the monitoring and control of various types of plant facilities and we continue to evolveto meet our customer demanding needs. To help its customers keep pace with rapid advances in technology and an ever-changing business environment Yokogawa provides solutions and services that will enable a digital transformation (DX) in their businesses and is preparing the way for a future in which industries will make the transition from IA2IA. Bring your whole self to work each day and realize your greatest potentialby enabling our customers to achieve world-classoperational excellence! Join the transformation!

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Program/Project Manager SAP S/4HANA Upgrade (North America) is responsible for leading the North American workstream of a global SAP ECC-to-SAP S/4HANA transformation with a planned go-live in 2028.

While the overall program is led by the global IT organization this role owns planning and execution for the North American region including implementation activities local add-ons and integrations user acceptance testing (UAT) training programs change management communications and stakeholder alignment across all North American businesses and functions.

The role is aimed at a highly experienced SAP program/project manager with a strong track record in large complex multi-year SAP implementations and upgrades particularly SAP S/4HANA.

DUTIES/RESULTS:

• Act as the primary North American program/project lead within the global SAP S/4HANA program governance structure.

• Develop and maintain the regional project plan (scope timelines milestones dependencies resources budget) aligned with global standards and methodologies (e.g. SAP Activate / PMO framework).

• Ensure consistency with global design principles while representing North American regulatory legal tax and business requirements.

• Coordinate with global IT regional IT business process owners and external partners/consultants.

• Provide regular status reporting risk/issue escalation and decision-ready recommendations to regional leadership and the global program steering committee.

• Lead all North American implementation activities across requirements solution design build testing data migration cutover planning and post-go-live hypercare.

• Manage local add-on developments interfaces and integrations required to support regional business processes and legacy systems.

• Coordinate and oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across all impacted business units including test planning test case definition execution defect management and sign-off.

• Define target user groups and role-based training needs in collaboration with business process owners and functional leads.

• Oversee development of training content (classroom virtual e-learning job aids) and ensure timely high-quality training delivery to end users and key stakeholders.

• Serve as a visible change champion ensuring consistent messaging and engagement from leadership across the region.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across all North American business units functions and sites.

• Proactively identify assess and manage program and project risks issues and dependencies; drive mitigation and contingency plans and ensure clear ownership.

• Ensure adherence to global program standards architecture principles security and compliance requirements and internal controls.

• Monitor quality of deliverables from all internal and external teams; ensure that testing and validation processes meet agreed criteria before moving to subsequent phases.

• Lead the regional hypercare phase after go-live coordinating incident resolution enhancement requests and user support.

• Capture lessons learned and improvement opportunities from North America and feed them back into global continuous improvement initiatives.

• Support the transition from project mode to business-as-usual operations in collaboration with global IT Shared Services and business process owners.

SPECIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Business Engineering or related field (Masters degree preferred)

• 1015 years of overall IT project/program management experience with a significant portion in ERP/SAP initiatives

• Minimum 35 full life-cycle SAP implementations including at least one large SAP S/4HANA program or ECC-to-S/4HANA conversion in a global or multi-region context

• Proven experience managing large cross-functional teams (IT business external partners) in a matrixed international environment

• Demonstrated success leading complex change and user adoption (training programs communication strategies stakeholder engagement).

• Strong understanding of core SAP processes (e.g. Order-to-Cash Procure-to-Pay Record-to-Report Manufacturing/Logistics) and how they are impacted by S/4HANA

• Professional certifications such as PMP Prince2 or Scrum/Agile; SAP S/4HANA or SAP project management certifications are a plus.

Work Environment:

Sugar Land Office

Yokogawa wants a Diverse Equitable and Inclusive culture. We will actively recruit develop and promote people from a variety of backgrounds who differ in terms of experience knowledge thinking styles perspective cultural background and socioeconomic status. We will not discriminate based on race skin color age sex gender identity and expression sexual orientation religion belief political opinion nationality ethnicity place of origin disability family relations or any other circumstances. Yokogawa values differences and enables everyone to belong contribute succeed and demonstrate their full potential.

Yokogawa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Yokogawa wants a diverse equitable and inclusive will actively recruit develop and promote people from a variety of backgrounds who differ in terms of experience knowledge thinking styles perspective cultural background and socioeconomic will not discriminate based on race skin color age sex gender identity and expression sexual orientation religion belief political opinion nationality ethnicity place of origin disability family relations or any other circumstances. Yokogawa values differences and enables everyone to belong contribute succeed and demonstrate their full potential.

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