The Vacancy
We are always looking for exceptional individuals to join our multinational group of talented professionals and right now we are seeking to recruit a motivated and driven S/4HANA Programme Manager to join our Megger Delivery Office on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
This is a UK-based remote role, with occasional attendance at our sites in Dover and Germany. The role will require travel to Germany at least once a month, particularly during the initial stages of the programme.
In this role, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of our SAP ECC to S/4HANA transformation, coordinating global business and technology teams and external implementation partners to deliver the agreed scope, outcomes and benefits within approved time, cost, quality and risk parameters.
You will own delivery from mobilisation and planning through design, build, testing, cutover, hypercare and transition into business-as-usual support. You will establish effective governance, manage cross-workstream dependencies and risks, and provide clear reporting and recommendations to sponsors and senior leaders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead programme mobilisation and maintain an integrated delivery plan, including milestones, critical path, resources and cross-workstream dependencies.
- Establish and manage effective governance, reporting, decision-making and escalation processes, providing clear status, forecasts, options and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Manage programme scope, budget, forecasts, supplier deliverables and commercial dependencies, ensuring risks, issues and variances are proactively identified and addressed.
- Coordinate business process design, data migration, integrations, testing, cutover, training, communications, readiness and hypercare across business and technical workstreams.
- Lead implementation partners and internal stakeholders to deliver a fit-to-standard, controlled S/4HANA transformation, ensuring business readiness, benefits realisation and a sustainable transition into business-as-usual support.
Experience, Skills & Qualifications
Essential
- Demonstrable experience leading complex SAP S/4HANA implementations, conversions, rollouts or major transformation workstreams within a multi-site organisation.
- Strong end-to-end programme delivery experience across planning, design, build, data migration, integration, testing, cutover, hypercare and transition to support.
- Working knowledge of SAP Activate or an equivalent structured implementation methodology, including workstreams, deliverables and quality gates.
- Experience coordinating business process owners, SAP functional and technical teams, enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure and third-party implementation partners.
- Strong commercial, financial, risk and stakeholder management skills, with experience managing budgets, forecasts, suppliers, dependencies and executive-level governance.
Desirable
- Experience within manufacturing, engineering, supply chain or another complex operational environment.
- Knowledge of SAP modules including Finance, Controlling, Materials Management, Production Planning, Sales & Distribution or Extended Warehouse Management.
- Experience of ECC to S/4HANA conversion and associated data, custom code, integration and business process impacts.
- SAP Activate Project Manager certification.
- German language skills.
About Us
At Doble-Megger, together we power the world.
With more than 250 years of combined heritage, deep technical expertise and trusted relationships with customers around the world, we help protect the critical power and water networks that communities and businesses rely on every day.
Our vision is to keep essential networks flowing safely and reliably, everywhere. We do that by helping customers understand the condition of their assets, make better-informed decisions and manage increasingly complex infrastructure with confidence.
Our expertise spans electrical testing, monitoring, diagnostics, software and analytics, laboratory services, engineering consultancy and asset performance management. From portable test equipment used in the field to continuous monitoring and advanced data insight, we provide the technology, expertise and support our customers need throughout the life of their assets.
With thousands of talented people and a global presence spanning North America, EMEA, Asia and beyond, Doble-Megger combines decades of knowledge with a shared ambition to keep moving our industry forward. Our scale gives us the opportunity to connect expertise across borders, develop new ideas and provide customers with support wherever they need us.
And it’s our people who make that possible. We’re engineers, innovators, problem-solvers and experts, united by a shared purpose and the knowledge that the work we do has a real impact on the world around us.
For someone joining Doble-Megger, that means the opportunity to work on technology and challenges that matter, learn from experts around the world and build a career within a truly global organisation.
Together, we’re helping create safer, more reliable services for communities and businesses worldwide, and we’d love you to be part of it!
Flexible Working
We recognise that flexibility helps people thrive. That’s why we support flexible working for all UK employees and welcome requests from day one of employment. You can make up to two requests per 12-month period.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
People are at the heart of Doble-Megger, and the different perspectives, experiences and ideas they bring are key to our success. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, embracing diversity in all its forms. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to ensuring a fair, supportive recruitment process and workplace culture for everyone.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know so we can support you.
Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications. If you're interested, don’t wait and send your application in today!
