Job Description: SAP S/4HANA Project Manager
1. Proposed Project Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- Own end-to-end delivery across all phases (Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run) against the agreed schedule, budget and scope baseline.
- Serve as the single point of contact to the DSO project sponsor and steering committee; chair steering, and run the governance cadence and escalation path.
- Manage the integrated project plan, critical path, and inter-workstream dependencies across Finance-to-Manage, Hire-to-Retire, Procure-to-Pay and technical/data workstreams.
- Own the risk and issue register, change control process, and variation management.
- Lead the delivery team including functional leads, technical/Basis, data migration, security and authorisations, testing and OCM, plus subcontractors where applicable.
- Control commercials — resource loading, invoicing milestones, effort tracking against the tendered effort baseline, and margin protection.
- Own quality gates and deliverable acceptance, including the acceptance criteria defined in the contract.
- Ensure compliance with Singapore public-sector and defence-sector security requirements (IM8 or equivalent client-mandated standard), data residency and classified-handling obligations throughout delivery.
- Manage cutover and hypercare, including go/no-go decision preparation and post-go-live stabilisation.
2. Relevant SAP Implementation Experience
Minimum: 12+ years SAP delivery experience, of which 5+ years in project management roles and at least two full-lifecycle S/4HANA implementations led end-to-end (not brownfield support, not phase-only involvement).
3. Relevant Expertise
Evidence required against:
- Methodology: SAP Activate, plus a formal PM framework (PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent).
- Functional breadth: sufficient understanding of FTM, HTR and PTP process areas to challenge design decisions and arbitrate cross-workstream conflicts — not deep configuration skill, but credible technical authority.
- Technical delivery: integration architecture, data migration governance, cutover planning, testing strategy (SIT/UAT/regression), authorisation design oversight.
- Public-sector / defence delivery: experience operating under government procurement contracts, classified or restricted data handling, security-cleared team management, and audit/compliance regimes.
- Stakeholder: demonstrated experience reporting to C-level or equivalent government/defence steering committees.
4. Relevant or Similar Large-Scale SAP Project Experience
Provide two to three detailed case examples matched to the role and to defence or air-gapped environments.
5. Certifications and Professional Qualifications
Required
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business or related discipline.
- PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner (current, not lapsed).
- SAP Activate Project Manager certification.
Strongly preferred
- SAP S/4HANA certification in at least one functional or technical area.
- Agile/Scrum credential (PSM, SAFe) where the delivery model is hybrid.
- Security-relevant credentials (CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001 LA) given the defence context.
- Existing or prior Singapore security clearance.