Senior Project Manager

Job Description

We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

Senior Project Manager – Drive Impact. Shape Transformation. Lead with Purpose.

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll be at the heart of delivering SAP transformation journeys that matter. You’ll work as a trusted advisor to our customers, steering complex programs to success and ensuring every milestone reflects quality, collaboration, and innovation.

You own the outcomes—scope, quality, budget, timing—and you drive them with clarity, confidence, and a customer‑centric mindset. You’ll also play a key role during the bid phase, shaping winning proposals through smart structuring, sharp scoping, and thoughtful risk assessment.

And because we grow together at SAP, you’ll contribute to a culture of teamwork, shared learning, and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Do

Opportunity & Pre‑Sales Support

• Shape project scopes, timelines, dependencies, resource plans, and risk assessments.
• Apply the right delivery methodologies and SAP accelerators tailored to each customer.
• Contribute to customer proposal reviews as a project‑delivery expert.

Project Delivery Leadership

• Lead all core project management activities—planning, monitoring, and controlling.
• Build and maintain a solid WBS, delivery roadmap, and integrated plans.
• Manage resourcing, financials, scope, and deliverables.
• Run robust RAID processes to remove obstacles and stay ahead of risks.
• Guide decision-making with project sponsors and steering committees.
• Ensure strong governance, transparent reporting, and seamless stakeholder engagement.
• Maintain compliance with SAP financial and reporting standards.

Coach, Mentor & Elevate the Team

• Clarify expectations, empower team members, and ensure quality deliverables.
• Support performance feedback to help colleagues grow and thrive.
• Foster teamwork and integration across all project contributors.

Build & Share Knowledge

• Maintain clear project documentation and contribute learnings to SAP’s knowledge base.
• Help evolve project‑management best practices across the organization.

What You Bring

• Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, IT—or an MBA is a plus.
• Fluency in English and French or Dutch.
• 3–5 years of hands‑on SAP project management experience.
• Proven track record in international SAP implementations.
• Strong command of SAP project deliverables (charters, plans, budgets, communications, status reporting).
• Experience driving scope, quality, and issue management to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Excellent communicator and natural team collaborator.
• Working knowledge of SAP methodologies & tools (e.g., SAP Activate, CALM).
• A growth mindset—curious, eager to learn, and keen to share knowledge.

Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion
SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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Requisition ID: 448347 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid