Senior SAP PMO Planner

Our client is one of the largest medical technology companies focused on orthopaedics, sports medicine, ENT, and advanced wound management. The company operates in more than 100 countries and reported annual sales of $6.2 billion in 2025.

Job overview

UK Remote Outside Excellent daily rate offered

The Senior SAP PMO Planner will lead planning, scheduling, and planning assurance across the SAP S/4HANA transformation programme. The role will establish a client-owned, contractually aligned planning framework, ensuring IBM and future SIs deliver high quality, logically sound plans that fully align to the SoW. The Planner will own the Integrated Master Schedule), define planning standards, govern planning processes, and produce critical programme wide insights including critical path, dependency mapping, milestones, slippage analysis, and scenario forecasting.

• Planning Leadership & Client-Owned Integration
• SI Deliverables Assurance (as defined in the SoW)
• Assurance of SI Delivery Plans (as defined in the SoW
• Governance & Change Control
• Reporting & Transparency

Key responsibilities

• Establish a client owned, fully integrated planning capability that provides a single source of truth across the SAP S/4HANA programme.
• Ensure all SI planning deliverables meet S+N quality standards, contractual obligations and acceptance criteria as defined in the SoW (Phase 0, Phase 1 and workstream plans).
• Maintain a robust S+N Integrated Level 3 Plan, ensuring all SI and internal activities are aligned, sequenced and connected across design, build, test, data, readiness and cutover.
• Drive clarity, consistency and planning discipline across all workstreams and delivery partners.
• Provide full transparency to leadership via high-quality reporting, critical path visibility, risk based insights and scenario modelling.
• Strengthen programme control by identifying schedule risks, slippage, cross-workstream impacts, and SI planning gaps early.
• Ensure integrated planning is contractually aligned, quality-assured and continuously maintained throughout the programme lifecycle.

Required Experience

• Large-scale transformation programmes
• Integrated planning
• SI assurance
• SAP S/4 lifecycle delivery
• Master schedule ownership