senior planning lead - sap
Posted Today by Randstad
£750 Per day
Undetermined
Remote
london, london
Summary: The Senior Planning Lead for SAP Transformation will oversee the establishment of a client-led integrated planning capability for a global FMCG/Pharma client's SAP S4/HANA transformation program. This fully remote role requires immediate availability and involves managing system integration deliverables, owning the Integrated Master Schedule, and providing insights for decision-making. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in SAP PMO planning and a strong background in large-scale transformation projects. Strong stakeholder engagement and leadership skills are essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish and own a fully client-led integrated planning capability for the SAP S4/HANA transformation program.
- Review, challenge, and assure all system integration planning deliverables against the Statement of Work.
- Own the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and provide evidence-based insights for decision-making.
- Define and implement the planning approach, governance framework, and planning lifecycle.
- Build and maintain the Integrated Level 3 Plan, consolidating various schedules into a coherent IMS.
- Plan full governance and change control processes.
- Produce reports for system integrators and internal stakeholders, ensuring transparency.
- Engage with stakeholders at senior leadership and SteerCo levels.
Key Skills:
- Full SAP PMO Planning lead experience.
- End-to-end planning experience as a lead planner.
- Experience with S4/HANA transformation projects.
- Proven ownership of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS).
- Ability to manage system integration deliverables.
- Strong organizational and detail-oriented approach to planning governance.
- Confident in challenging delivery partners.
- Experience in fast-paced, evolving program environments.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience in critical path analysis and dependency mapping.
Salary (Rate): £750 per day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Planning Lead - SAP Transformation
My global FMCG/Pharma client is looking for an experienced Senior Planning Lead to work e2e on a SAP S4/HANA transformation programmw
The role is fully remote and you must be able to start ASAP
As the senior SAP PMO Planning Lead you will be accountable for establishing and owning a fully client-led integrated planning capability for the programme.The role has authority to review, challenge and assure all system integration planning deliverables against the Statement of Work, ensuring plans are logically sound, fully integrated and aligned to agreed milestones, dependencies and outcomes. You will own the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and provide clear, evidence-based insights to support programme decision-making, re-planning, and delivery confidence.
Essential
- Has full SAP PMO Planning lead experience.
- Must be a LEAD PLANNER with e2e planning experience
- Has worked on S4/HANH transformation projects
- Ha owned the integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
- Can manage system integration (SI) deliverables
- Takes full planning leadership - Define and imp lement the planning approach, governance framework, and planning lifecycle.Build and maintain the Integrated Level 3 Plan, consolidating SI, internal, functional, and cross-workstream schedules into a coherent IMS.
- Plan full governance and change control processes
- Produce reports for SI's and internally, ensuring full transparency
- Highly organised with a disciplined, detail-oriented approach to planning governance and reporting
- Confident in challenging delivery partners (including SIs)
- Able to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving programme environment with frequent re-planning
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including operating at senior leadership and SteerCo level
Essential Experience
- Experience operating in fastpaced, evolving transformation environments with significant ambiguity, frequent re-planning cycles and shifting priorities
- Extensive experience delivering planning on large-scale, complex global SAP programmes (multi-country, multi-phase).
- Direct experience across the SAP S/4HANA lifecycle: design, build, test, data migration, cutover, hypercare.
- Experience working in multi-vendor environments with System Integrators (SIs), including planning governance and assurance
- Proven ownership of Level 2/3 Integrated Master Schedules across multi-vendor landscapes.
- Strong expertise in critical path analysis, dependency mapping, scenario planning, resourcing forecasts, and milestone governance.
- Experience challenging SI delivery plans and enforcing SoW compliance.
- Skilled at integrating SAP planning with business readiness, data, architecture, testing, and cutover plans.
- Experience supporting programme re-baselining, recovery planning or remediation of complex delivery plans
- Strong experience managing multiple workstreams, stakeholders and delivery partners within large-scale transformation programmes
- Experience operating in fast-paced, evolving transformation environments with ambiguity and frequent re-planning cycles.
Desirable Experience
- Background in medtech, surgical, medical device or regulated manufacturing.
- Working knowledge of SAP Activate methodology and SAP S/4HANA delivery lifecycle (FI/CO, MM/PP, SD)
- Experience managing wave-based go-live sequencing and cutover planning activities.
- Experience integrating planning across data, architecture, testing and business readiness workstreams
This is a senior planning lead role so please apply if you have the relevant depth of planning lead experience at a senior level. The client is looking to move very quickly and we have interview slots ready to be filled with a view to having the right candidate start ASAP. So dont delay and apply now to be considered.
Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.