SAP Program Manager, SAP Basis and HANA Operations
Lead an executive-owned SAP workstream covering technical operations, performance, transports, databases, security and recovery across SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA for a hybrid senior role based in Chennai. You will shape the target operating model, protect delivery quality and connect process design, data, integration, testing and adoption to measurable customer service, carbon and margin outcomes in India.
Helping your business enhance Customer Experience Ownership so it runs better, faster and cheaper, without the nonsense.
Do work that
changes the system.
Lead an executive-owned SAP workstream covering technical operations, performance, transports, databases, security and recovery across SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA for a hybrid senior role based in Chennai. You will shape the target operating model, protect delivery quality and connect process design, data, integration, testing and adoption to measurable customer service, carbon and margin outcomes in India.
SAP Program Manager, SAP Basis and HANA Operations
Lead an executive-owned SAP workstream covering technical operations, performance, transports, databases, security and recovery across SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA for a hybrid senior role based in Chennai. You will shape the target operating model, protect delivery quality and connect process design, data, integration, testing and adoption to measurable customer service, carbon and margin outcomes in India.
What you will do
- Lead discovery, design authority and delivery decisions for technical operations, performance, transports, databases, security and recovery, with explicit ownership of scope, dependencies, risks and acceptance evidence.
- Translate C-level priorities into a practical SAP workstream roadmap, process blueprint, backlog, controls, decision log and value case.
- Design or review the future-state solution across SAP Basis and HANA Operations, master data, security, integration, analytics and connected applications.
- Direct workshops and alignment across business process owners, SAP specialists, engineers, data teams, testing leads and regional stakeholders.
- Govern fit-to-standard, clean-core, configuration, extension, defect, cutover and hypercare decisions with disciplined documentation.
- Coach senior consultants and client teams, raise delivery capability and make knowledge transfer measurable rather than informal.
- Report progress, service risk, value realization and customer experience implications to executive sponsors in clear business language.
What you bring
- Demonstrated 15 to 18 years of enterprise SAP delivery, advisory or transformation leadership with SAP Basis and HANA Operations.
- Deep hands-on understanding of technical operations, performance, transports, databases, security and recovery and the upstream and downstream process dependencies that determine operating value.
- Proven experience across SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA or both, with the judgment to separate essential controls from unnecessary customization.
- Strong command of architecture, master data, integration, testing, release, security and change practices relevant to the workstream.
- A track record of leading complex stakeholder groups, resolving decisions quickly and protecting delivery outcomes across time zones.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication, with the ability to connect SAP decisions to cash, service, carbon, risk and margin.
- Willingness to work across primary india delivery hub and participate in customer workshops, governance and occasional travel when the program requires it.
Help the client run better, faster and cheaper by turning SAP Basis and HANA Operations into an owned decision system that improves Customer Experience Ownership, reduces avoidable work and strengthens operating margin.