SAP EAM / EPPM Lead - #1174161

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Your Role and Responsibilities

As an SAP EAM / EPPM Lead, you will lead the design, implementation, and delivery of SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management (EPPM) solutions for clients. You will combine deep functional expertise with delivery leadership to translate complex asset management, maintenance, capital project, and portfolio requirements into scalable SAP solutions. You will guide client stakeholders and project teams, drive design decisions, and ensure successful adoption and business outcomes.

• Lead Solution Design: Own the end-to-end functional solution for SAP S/4HANA EAM and EPPM, including Plant Maintenance, Project System, portfolio and project management, investment planning, and related capabilities.
• Engage Client Stakeholders: Lead discovery workshops with business and IT stakeholders, assess current processes, define target operating models, and translate business requirements into fit-to-standard SAP designs.
• Configure and Integrate Solutions: Oversee configuration and integration across SAP EAM, EPPM, Finance and Controlling, Materials Management, Procurement, Human Capital, and relevant third-party platforms.
• Lead Delivery: Provide functional leadership across blueprinting, realization, testing, data migration, cutover, deployment, hypercare, and transition to support.
• Govern Solution Quality: Establish design principles, review functional specifications, manage solution risks and dependencies, and ensure adherence to SAP best practices and delivery standards.
• Optimize Asset and Project Performance: Help clients improve asset reliability, maintenance effectiveness, capital investment governance, project cost control, resource utilization, and on-time delivery.
• Drive Adoption and Value Realization: Develop process guidance, support training and change activities, and define measurable outcomes to ensure sustainable adoption of the SAP solution.
• Lead and Develop Teams: Coordinate functional consultants and cross-functional teams, manage workstream priorities, and coach team members to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Required Professional and Technical Expertise

• SAP S/4HANA EAM Expertise: Strong experience designing and implementing SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Asset Management and Plant Maintenance solutions, including technical objects, maintenance processing, preventive maintenance, notifications, work orders, planning, scheduling, and reporting.
• SAP EPPM Expertise: Strong experience across SAP Project System and Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management capabilities, such as project structures, planning, budgeting, investment management, cost and revenue control, resource planning, portfolio governance, and project reporting.
• Delivery Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading an SAP EAM or EPPM workstream through at least one full implementation lifecycle, from discovery and design through deployment and hypercare.
• Solution Architecture and Integration: Ability to design integrated solutions across SAP Finance and Controlling, Materials Management, Procurement, Human Capital, analytics, SAP Fiori, and relevant third-party systems.
• Business Process Knowledge: Strong understanding of asset lifecycle management, maintenance execution, capital project delivery, portfolio prioritization, project controls, and industry practices for asset-intensive organizations.
• Data, Testing, and Cutover: Experience defining data migration requirements, functional test scenarios, integration testing, user acceptance testing, cutover activities, and production readiness.
• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to facilitate workshops, communicate solution decisions, manage senior stakeholders, resolve design issues, and align business and technical teams.
• Team Leadership: Experience planning workstream activities, coordinating consultants, reviewing deliverables, managing risks, and mentoring team members.
• Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex SAP concepts clearly to both business and technical audiences.