Global SAP S4HANA Project Manager — SAP Product & Platform Lead

Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.

This role is pivotal for orchestrating the execution of the ERP transformation program and ensuring alignment between business objectives, technology strategy, and delivery outcomes. The leader governs scope, budget, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder engagement across multiple workstreams and geographies. As the overall steward of the SAP platform, this role protects the stability, scalability, and long-term sustainability of the enterprise digital core. Effective program leadership reduces transformation risk and ensures successful realization of business value from SAP investments. Without dedicated ownership, large-scale ERP initiatives face increased risks of delays, cost overruns, and inconsistent deployment outcomes.
Product and platform delivery
● Own end-to-end delivery for an assigned S/4HANA product domain and its business segment scope — plan,
scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and benefit realization.
● Lead a persistent, cross-functional product team of functional, technical, data, and integration resources,
paired with the Global Process Owner accountable for the business outcome.
● Drive segment transformation from legacy ERP landscapes into the S/4HANA global template, including
process discovery, fit-to-standard, localization, and data readiness.
● Manage deployment waves through cutover, go-live, and hypercare, with clear entry and exit criteria at every
stage gate.

SAP methodology and delivery discipline
● Apply SAP Activate rigorously across Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run, including
fit-to-standard workshops, backlog management, and quality gate governance.
● Operate the delivery toolchain — SAP Cloud ALM, Signavio, Solution Manager, and Jira/ADO — as the single
source of truth for scope, defects, test status, and traceability.
● Own the integrated test strategy across SIT, UAT, mock cycles, performance, and cutover rehearsal, with
measurable readiness criteria rather than status opinions.
● Coordinate with SAP services engagements (RISE, MaxAttention, Enterprise Support) on architecture reviews,
readiness checks, and go-live safeguarding.

Governance and controls
● Run the governance cadence for the domain: steering reporting, decision logs, risk and issue management,
dependency management, and formal change control
Enforce clean core standards — extensions on BTP, custom code justified and approved at the point of
creation, template deviations escalated rather than absorbed.
● Ensure security, SoD, and privileged access controls are designed in and evidenced through GRC, not
remediated after go-live.
● Maintain audit-ready documentation and a defensible decision trail across all waves

Financial and stakeholder stewardship
● Own domain budget, forecast, resource plan, and vendor consumption; provide transparent
cost-versus-progress reporting to program and segment leadership.
● Manage system integrator and AMS partner performance against contracted scope, staffing continuity, and
quality commitments.
● Serve as the primary delivery interface to segment business leadership, translating technical status into
business impact and value realization.

Qualifications Required
●15+ years in SAP program and project management, PMO leadership, and hands-on delivery execution.
● Proven delivery of at least two full-cycle S/4HANA implementations or major ECC-to-S/4HANA
transformations, including multi-country or multi-site deployment waves.
● Deep working command of SAP Activate and the associated governance, quality gate, and cutover disciplines.
● Demonstrated ownership of a global template across regions, with the credibility to defend standardization
against local pressure.
● Experience managing large system integrators and AMS partners on commercial and quality terms.
● Strong grounding in at least two core process areas (OTC, RTR, STP, PTM/SCM) and in data migration and
master data governance.
● Executive-level communication: able to hold a room with a CFO, a COO, and a segment president.
Preferred
● RISE with SAP delivery experience and familiarity with BTP extensibility patterns.
● Industrial, manufacturing, or engineered-products sector background.
● Experience integrating acquisitions onto a common ERP template.
● PMP, SAFe, or SAP Activate certification.

Success in the First 12 Months
A credible, resourced, and stage-gated plan for your domain. Deployment waves delivered on schedule with clean
cutovers and controlled hypercare. Zero unapproved core modifications. Transparent cost-to-progress reporting
that leadership trusts. Measurable business process KPIs moving in the right direction post go-live.

Operating Principles You Will Work Under
● Products, not projects. Persistent teams aligned to value streams, funded by capacity rather than project
cycles, each paired with a business process owner accountable for the outcome.
● Clean core is non-negotiable. Extensions live on BTP, the core stays standard, and custom code is
governed at the point of creation
Paved road, not toll booth. Golden paths, reference architectures, and reusable patterns, with guardrails
enforced in the pipeline rather than in a design authority meeting.
● Compliance by default. Controls are designed into the platform and evidenced automatically, so control
integrity holds at deployment scale.
● Accountable for value, not volume. Success is measured in business process KPIs, adoption, and realized
value, not tickets closed or hours delivered.
● Intelligent enterprise by design. AI and agent enablement, and the data readiness that makes both credible,
are owned capabilities.
● Global template authority, local execution. Template integrity is held centrally through the current
deployment horizon, with a defined path to greater product-team autonomy.

Join the global Xylem team to be a part of innovative technology solutions transforming water usage, conservation, and re-use. Our products impact public utilities, industrial sectors, residential areas, and commercial buildings, with a commitment to providing smart metering, network technologies, and advanced analytics for water, electric, and gas utilities. Partner with us in creating a world where water challenges are met with ingenuity and dedication; where we recognize the power of inclusion and belonging in driving innovation and allowing us to compete more effectively around the world.