SAP Project Manager

About the Role

Astek Middle East is seeking an experienced SAP Project Manager to lead and coordinate SAP and ERP delivery initiatives within an enterprise environment. This full-time position is based in Al Jubail, Eastern region, and requires 5-10 years of relevant experience. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing project planning, governance, delivery execution, and go-live readiness, ensuring effective coordination among all stakeholders.

Role Context and Expectations

This role requires a strong understanding of SAP implementation and delivery lifecycles, including requirements management, solution design, testing, data migration, cutover, go-live, and post-implementation stabilization. The ideal candidate will combine structured project management capabilities with practical experience in delivering SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA projects, managing multiple workstreams, and driving delivery within agreed scope, timelines, budget, and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead SAP project planning and governance, including project charters, work breakdown structures, integrated schedules, budgets, resource plans, milestones, and workstream responsibilities.
• Coordinate SAP functional teams, ABAP/Fiori developers, Basis and security teams, integration specialists, data teams, testing teams, business process owners, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and implementation partners.
• Manage requirements, fit-to-standard outcomes, process designs, functional and technical specifications, integrations, custom developments, roles, data objects, and requirements traceability.
• Control release scope, sprint and deployment plans, system environments, transports, dependencies, defects, and configuration/development readiness.
• Plan and govern System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, performance testing, security testing, and data reconciliation.
• Manage data migration activities, mock loads, reconciliation, cutover planning, interface freezes, rollback arrangements, go-live command centers, and stabilization.
• Monitor implementation partner deliverables, estimates, change requests, acceptance criteria, commercial milestones, and knowledge transfer.
• Maintain risk, assumption, issue, and dependency (RAID) logs, decision registers, action trackers, change controls, quality findings, and approval records.
• Prepare project dashboards, weekly status reports, steering committee presentations, release-readiness updates, and executive decision papers.
• Coordinate user training, change communications, operational handover, hypercare, transition to application maintenance and support teams, project closure, and benefits tracking.

Measures of Success

• SAP projects and releases delivered against approved scope, timelines, and quality criteria.
• Clear governance, accurate project reporting, and effective management of risks and dependencies.
• Controlled testing, data migration, cutover, and go-live activities.
• Successful transition to operational support, with complete documentation and knowledge transfer.