SAP Deployment Project Manager

Temporary work opportunities align well with people who are looking for career flexibility and less traditional ways of working, but at the same time are people driven to deliver amazing work in high-profile situations. Magnit Direct Sourcing is a service offered by Magnit Global that provides top talent directly to industry leading clients who have flexible temporary assignments that work on a variety of projects and unlock opportunities for exciting work. As a temporary contractor, you’ll be employed by our Managed Service Provider, Magnit Global, who manages most of our temporary contract hiring. You will not be employed by Diageo. This temporary assignment will be working with Diageo. Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge, and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and create innovate experiences that bring people together to celebrate life. Visit Diageo’s global responsible drinking resource, Drink IQ, for information, initiatives, and ways to share best practices. Celebrating life, every day, everywhere. SAP Deployment Project Manager About Us With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About The Function Our Digital and Technology (D&T) team are innovators, delivering ground-breaking solutions that will help shape the future of our iconic brands. Technology touches every part of our business, from the sourcing of sustainable ingredients to marketing and development of our online platforms. We utilise data insights to build competitive advantage, supporting our people to deliver value faster.

About The Role Diageo is undertaking a global transformation through the Voyager program. Phase 1 is a platform upgrade from ECC to SAP S/4HANA, impacting over 12,000 users across 100+ markets. The program initially aims to deliver a successful SAP S/4 HANA go-live to be followed by a business transformation in later phases. Diageo is therefore seeking a Voyager Deployment Project Manager who has excellent market and stakeholder leadership capabilities to optimally deliver SAP S/4 Hana solutions in Diageo’s fast-paced environment for Phase 1 of the programme. They will have strong cross-functional knowledge of processes and solutions as well as market knowledge for the region assigned to the role i.e Africa / Europe / NAM / LAC / AP.

About The Team Our D&T team includes some of the most talented digital professionals in the industry. Every day, we come together to push boundaries and innovate, shaping the digital solutions of tomorrow. Whatever your passion, we’ll help you become the best you can be, creating career-defining work and delivering breakthrough thinking.

Purpose Of The Role To lead the Voyager programme deployment engagement and readiness for North America.

Role Responsibilities

• Manage the regional plan, including deployment and business readiness; provide key inputs into cutover, testing, data, and training PMs
• Track and report progress, deliverables, and KPIs, including governance dashboards, critical path timelines, stage-gates, and RAID logs
• Support risk mitigation, proactively flagging slippages or cross-stream impacts to programme leadership
• Ensure documentation, decisions, and updates are centrally captured and audit-ready
• Act as key contact point for regional business owners, tech leads, and deployment teams
• Drive readiness reviews and governance updates for the region, ensuring alignment with global programme objectives

Skills Required

• Proven background in project or programme management for ERP or large-scale business transformation
• Strong understanding of regional business processes and operational complexities
• Experience working with multi-country stakeholders and navigating diverse regulatory or market contexts
• Familiarity with cutover planning, testing, and hyper care
• Track record of cross-functional stakeholder engagement
• Deep knowledge of SAP technical and functional architecture, data model, and emerging SAP capabilities, including integrating SAP solutions
• Several full cycle implementation experience required – ECC and SAP S/4
• Leverage business process knowledge & proficiency for FP&A and ensure business requirements and solution meeting standards
• Excellent knowledge if cross-stream impacts in MM, SD and other SAP modules
• Experience working with 3rd party applications in the financial planning tools
• Competency in strategic design thinking with strong capabilities across S/4 HANA architecture
• Good understanding of SaaS, Cloud hosting and Integration technologies (including integrations with Salesforce.com)
• Understanding of software development lifecycle with experiences of Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
• Design and implementation of S/4 HANA solutions to meet business requirements and best standards.
• Competency in designing, building, testing and deploying the SAP solution components required for successful integrations to SAP and non-SAP systems
• Effective project scoping and delivery
• Analytical and structured programme manager who consolidates complex regional inputs and bridges central leadership with local teams
• Strong stakeholder influencer who keeps senior leaders aligned, resilient under pressure, adaptable to shifting priorities, and proactive in identifying and mitigating risks early.

Education

• Project Management Certification
• Bachelors degree a plus

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one. Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world. Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.