SAP Delivery Lead/Associate Director - Utilities

We Are: Accenture’s SAP practice, and we bring the New to life using design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech for SAP when it comes to automation and AI. We help our clients apply intelligence to set their business apart and make them more proactive, predictive and productive – the power of the intelligent enterprise. Ready to learn as much as you can? We put strong emphasis on training our people on S/4HANA and all the new cloud products from SAP, both functionally and technically – with the support of our 70,000+ member community. It’s also nice to know our hard work doesn’t go unrecognized. We’ve got over 70 SAP awards—more than any other partner—and we’re the leading business partner for SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Hybris, SAP FieldGlass, SAP Concur, and more. Visit us here to find out more about Accenture's SAP practice.   You Are: You are an accomplished SAP transformation senior leader who thrives in the complexity of large-scale business and technology transformations. You bring the vision, leadership, and execution discipline required to deliver enterprise SAP programs that drive measurable business outcomes while managing risk, cost, quality, and stakeholder expectations. You are a trusted advisor to client executives and program leadership, capable of aligning business, functional, technical, data, testing, deployment, and change teams around a shared transformation vision. You excel at navigating ambiguity, managing large global delivery organizations, and ensuring programs remain focused on value realization from strategy through deployment and stabilization. You continuously seek opportunities to modernize delivery through AI, GenAI, automation, analytics, and data-driven decision making, helping organizations accelerate transformation while improving quality and delivery predictability. Above all, you are passionate about helping Consumer, Goods & Services companies successfully transform their businesses through SAP and emerging technologies. The Work: Lead end-to-end delivery of large SAP transformation programs, serving as the primary delivery leader accountable for execution, quality, financial performance, and business outcomes. Partner with senior client executives to define transformation strategies, program roadmaps, governance models, and value realization objectives. Establish and lead global delivery organizations across business, functional, technical, integration, data, testing, deployment, change management, and support workstreams. Drive program planning, mobilization, estimation, staffing, governance, financial management, and execution across all phases of SAP S/4HANA implementations. Manage program risks, issues, dependencies, scope, and stakeholder expectations while ensuring alignment to program objectives and delivery commitments. Lead executive governance forums, steering committees, and stakeholder communications, providing transparent reporting and actionable recommendations. Ensure adoption of SAP leading practices, Accenture delivery methodologies, quality standards, and governance frameworks to improve delivery outcomes. Guide teams through major program milestones including design, build, testing, deployment planning, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to support. Drive delivery innovation by leveraging AI, GenAI, automation, and analytics to improve productivity, quality, risk management, and delivery efficiency. Build trusted relationships with client executives and become a strategic advisor on SAP transformation, delivery excellence, and business value realization. Support account growth through delivery excellence, executive relationship development, opportunity identification, and participation in sales and pursuit activities. Support sales origination, proposal development, solution shaping, and business case creation for future SAP transformation opportunities. Develop delivery assets, accelerators, and