ASAP Senior Project Management Lead (m/f/d)

Job description:



In the
**Group Information Technology**
department in
**Graz**
, we are looking for a
**Senior Project Management Lead (m/f/d)**
. 

 

The Senior Project Management Lead is accountable for the successful delivery of large-scale SAP rollouts and highly complex transformation programmes, including multi-country rollouts, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), carve-ins, blueprint implementations, legacy consolidations, and other in-ternal ERP initiatives.

This role requires exceptional seniority, leadership maturity, and delivery excellence, serving as:

- Single point of accountability for critical SAP delivery programmes
- Trusted advisor to executive leadership and steering committees
- A stabilising presence in high-risk, high-complexity environments

**Your Tasks**

- End-to-End Programme and Project Leadership
- Lead complex SAP rollout programmes across multiple legal entities, countries, and business divisions.
- Manage large-scale rollouts, parallel deployments, and M&A integration projects with competing business priorities and complex dependencies.
- Assume full accountability for scope, budget, schedule, quality, and benefits realisation.
- Establish and enforce robust delivery governance, stage-gate models, and escalation mechanisms.

Steering and Executive Management

- Prepare for and lead Steering Committee meetings.
- Translate complex delivery realities into clear, decision-ready management insights.
- Act as leadership presence in critical or escalated situations, including timeline recovery, rollout issues, or organisational resistance.

SAP Rollout and Transformation Expertise

- Own and continuously improve SAP rollout frameworks, templates, and standards.
- Lead deployments covering:
- Multi-ERP legacy replacements
- Blueprints and template rollouts
- M&A integrations
- Regional and global rollout factories
- Ensure close alignment across solution design, data migration, testing, cutover, and hypercare workstreams.

PMO and Project Management Excellence

- Build and lead senior project management structures (PMO, rollout leads, and workstream project man-agers).
- Coach and provide quality assurance to other project managers.
- Ensure a consistent application of best-practice project methodologies (hybrid: SAP Activate, waterfall, and agile).
- Drive portfolio prioritisation and resource allocation across competing rollouts and initiatives.

Risk, Quality, and Financial Control

- Proactively manage programme risks, dependencies, and organisational readiness.
- Ensure financial discipline through budget tracking, forecasting, and cost optimisation.
- Maintain delivery quality under pressure, particularly during:
- Parallel go-lives
- Concurrent internal projects
- Time-critical regulatory or business deadlines



Profile description:



**Your Profile**

- 15+ years of professional project and programme management experience.
- 10+ years leading large SAP programmes (rollouts, transformations, and M&A).
- Proven delivery of multi-country, multi-ERP, and multi-stakeholder initiatives.
- A strong track record of executive-level programme ownership within complex organisations.
- Deep experience with SAP S/4HANA, RISE, or hybrid landscapes.

Leadership and Seniority

- Demonstrated ability to operate as a peer to senior executives.
- High resilience, authority, and composure in complex, demanding delivery environments.
- Strong people leadership across senior project managers and cross-functional leads.
- Recognised as a role model for project excellence.

Competencies and Skills

- Executive communication and decision facilitation
- Complex stakeholder and conflict management
- Strategic thinking combined with hands-on delivery control
- Strong financial acumen for large programme budgets
- Change and transformation leadership
- Exceptional sense of ownership with a strong results-oriented mindset
- Structured, analytical, and methodical
- Able to influence with or without formal authority
- Pragmatic, business-oriented, and delivery-focused
- Willingness to travel

Education and Certifications

- University degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or a comparable discipline
- PMP, PRINCE2, IPMA, or SAFe certification is a strong advantage
- SAP Activate or SAP programme certifications are advantageous



We offer:



**Our Offer**

Andritz AG offers a secure job in an innovative and international company with long-term development opportunities.

- Talent & leadership programs
- Flexible working time model
- Home office option
- Various employee discounts
- Subsidized company restaurant
- Parking spaces & public accessibility
- Bike Leasing

In Austria we are legally obliged to announce at least a gross monthly salary of € 4.918,43 for this position.

Depending on qualifications and professional experience we offer you a market-based salary.