Senior Program Manager - Global SAP Accounts Payable Transformation - Freelance

Project Details

• Location: Location agnostic, CET working hours

• Work mode: Full remote; if Barcelona based, 1 to 2 days per week onsite preferred

• Start date: January 2027

• Duration: Approximately 1 year (until December 2027)

• Extension possibility: Potential phase 2, to be defined

• Language(s): Fluent English; other languages a plus

Project Summary

We are looking for a senior Program Manager to lead the global replacement of a legacy invoice-management landscape with a cloud-based Accounts Payable invoice-processing platform integrated with SAP S/4HANA and ECC6. The scope covers governance of a SaaS vendor and multiple SI partners, solution design, integrations, data migration, phased country and ERP deployments, and legacy decommissioning, within a TSA-exit timeline.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead governance across the SaaS vendor, multiple SI partners and internal teams; hold partners accountable for SOW deliverables, quality, SLAs and schedules

• Drive end-to-end delivery and wave rollout: planning, blueprinting, build, SIT, UAT, cutover, deployment and hypercare

• Maintain a single integrated plan and critical path across all parties and SAP landscapes

• Bridge SAP functional, middleware, architecture, identity and security teams and upstream procurement platforms

• Coordinate data migration, reconciliation, archive access and decommissioning of the legacy platform

• Manage TSA milestones, RAID logs, decisions and financials, and report to the executive Steering Committee; support AP, Tax and country finance teams on future-state processes and adoption of touchless matching