Lead Large-Scale Business Transformation with a Global SAP Leader
At Westernacher Consulting, we have been helping organizations transform their businesses for over 55 years and have proudly served as an SAP Gold Partner for more than 30 years. With a strong global presence across 28 countries and a well-established Centre of Excellence in Malaysia, we deliver innovative SAP solutions to some of the world's leading organizations.
As we continue to strengthen our team in Malaysia, we are seeking an experienced Senior SAP Project Manager to lead strategic transformation programs and drive successful project delivery across local, regional, and global engagements.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead SAP transformation programmes from mobilisation through hypercare and transition to support.
- Establish and maintain programme governance structures.
- Ensure delivery aligns with scope, budget, schedule, and quality objectives.
- Provide leadership to multi-disciplinary delivery teams. Project Planning and Control
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans.
- Manage programme milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical paths.
- Monitor project performance and initiate corrective actions where required.
- Drive adherence to agreed delivery methodology and governance standards. Stakeholder Management
- Build trusted relationships with client executives and business leaders.
- Facilitate Steering Committee and governance meetings.
- Manage communications across all stakeholder groups.
- Ensure timely decision-making and escalation management. Financial and Commercial Management
- Manage project budgets and forecasts.
- Monitor resource utilisation and project financial performance.
- Manage contractual obligations and change requests.
- Ensure delivery remains commercially viable and aligned with contractual commitments. Risk and Issue Management
- Maintain project risk and issue registers.
- Lead mitigation planning and resolution activities.
- Escalate major risks and issues appropriately.
- Ensure dependencies across workstreams are managed effectively. Resource and Vendor Management
- Coordinate project resources across business and technical teams.
- Manage third-party suppliers and implementation partners.
- Ensure effective collaboration across all participating organisations. Quality Assurance
- Ensure project deliverables meet agreed standards.
- Conduct project health checks and readiness assessments.
- Oversee testing, deployment, and cutover governance activities.
- Promote continuous improvement throughout the programme lifecycle. Business Readiness and Adoption
- Support organisational change management activities.
- Ensure business readiness plans are developed and executed.
- Drive stakeholder engagement, training, and adoption activities.
- Facilitate successful transition into business-as-usual operations.
What We’re Looking For:
- Minimum 10 years of project or programme management experience.
- Minimum 5 years leading SAP implementation or transformation projects.
- Experience delivering at least two full lifecycle SAP programmes.
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams and multiple workstreams.
- Experience managing executive-level stakeholders and governance forums. SAP Transformation Experience
- SAP S/4HANA implementations
- SAP ECC to S/4HANA migrations
- Greenfield ERP programmes
- Brownfield transformation projects
- Multi-country SAP roll-outs
- Shared services and business transformation initiatives
- Application managed services transition programmes Delivery Methodology Experience
- SAP Activate methodology
- Agile and hybrid delivery approaches
- Programme governance frameworks
- Risk and quality management practices
- Cutover and deployment planning
- Transition to support and hypercare management
- SAP S/4HANA programme lifecycle
- Data migration concepts
- Testing lifecycle and defect management
- Security and access governance principles
- Integration management
- Change management and training activities
- Environment and release planning
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Master's degree and/or MBA desirable but not mandatory
- Thai Speaker
- PMP (Project Management Professional) or
- PRINCE2 Practitioner Preferred
- SAP Certified Associate – Project Manager – SAP Activate. SAP's certification focuses on SAP project delivery, stakeholder management, change management, testing and quality management rather than technical configuration expertise. [learning.sap.com]
- SAP Certified Specialist – Project Manager – SAP Activate for Agile Implementation Management. [learning.sap.com]
- PMI-ACP
- SAFe Agilist
- Prosci Change Management
- ITIL Foundation Personal Attributes
- Strong leadership and executive presence.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Strong commercial and financial awareness.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Sound judgement and decision-making ability.
- Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- Ability to lead diverse teams in complex transformation environments.
- Results-oriented and accountable for delivery outcomes.
Demonstrated experience leading one or more of the following:
The successful candidate is expected to possess a solid understanding of SAP programme delivery and implementation approaches, including:
The role does not require deep configuration or technical specialist expertise. Technical design responsibility remains with Solution Architects, Functional Leads, Technical Leads, Security Leads, and Data Leads.
Educational QualificationsWhy Join Us?
- Dynamic Role: Take ownership of diverse challenges and projects with creative freedom in a 100% employee-owned company.
- Professional Growth: Fast-track your career with extensive learning opportunities, certifications, and global knowledge-sharing programs.
- Global Team: Work with an innovative, international team in a flat hierarchy, making a tangible difference in Malaysia and Beyond.
- Flexibility & Rewards: Enjoy flexible hours, remote work options, and a competitive pay package.
- Partnership Opportunity: Join our unique partnership model and share in the company’s succes
Skills Required
- Thai speaker
- Minimum 10 years of project or programme management experience
- Minimum 5 years leading SAP implementation or transformation projects
- Experience delivering at least two full-lifecycle SAP programmes
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams and multiple workstreams
- Experience managing executive-level stakeholders and governance forums
- Experience with SAP transformation programmes such as S/4HANA implementations, ECC-to-S/4HANA migrations, greenfield or brownfield ERP programmes, multi-country rollouts, shared services, or managed-services transitions
- Experience with SAP Activate, Agile or hybrid delivery, programme governance, risk and quality management, cutover planning, and transition to support
- Understanding of SAP programme lifecycle, data migration, testing and defect management, security and access governance, integration management, change management, training, and environment and release planning
- PMP certification or PRINCE2 Practitioner certification
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline
- SAP Certified Associate Project Manager SAP Activate
- SAP Certified Specialist Project Manager SAP Activate for Agile Implementation Management
- PMI-ACP certification
- SAFe Agilist certification
- Prosci Change Management certification
- ITIL Foundation certification
- Master's degree or MBA
What We Do
Founded in 1969, Westernacher Consulting operates worldwide, with consultants in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Westernacher provides global business and SAP consulting, serving medium to large sized enterprises striving for innovation, operational excellence and profitable, sustainable growth. Westernacher has comprehensive industry expertise in manufacturing, logistics services, retail & consumer goods, life sciences and utilities. The company’s business expertise ranges from enterprise resource planning, sales, e-commerce, procurement, manufacturing, warehouse logistics and transportation, after sales service and spare parts management to business analytics, finance and HCM

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