SAP SuccessFactors Project Lead (m/f/d)

• Advance your career with exciting professional opportunities in our thriving company with a startup feel.
• Voice your unique ideas in a corporate culture defined by openness and integrity.
• Enjoy the opportunity to work from abroad (workation).
• Feel at home working with our helpful, enthusiastic colleagues who have great team spirit.
• Broaden your perspective with our extensive training curriculum and learning programs (e.g. LinkedIn Learning).
• Speak your mind in our holistic feedback and development processes (e.g. 360-degree feedback).
• Satisfy your need for adventure with our opportunities to live and work abroad in one of our many international offices
• Enjoy our benefits, such as hybrid working, daycare allowance, corporate discounts, and wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace).
• Unwind in our break areas where you can help yourself to the healthy snacks and beverages provided.
  
• See another side of your coworkers at our frequent employee events and highly anticipated World Meeting and Holiday Party.

Lead and control HR project delivery

• Maintain an actionable HR project plan covering milestones, deliverables, responsibilities, dependencies, resources, and critical paths.
• Ensure every significant deliverable has a named owner, deadline, and agreed completion criteria.
• Monitor progress, verify completion, identify deviations early, and coordinate corrective action when delivery is at risk.

Drive regional and country deployment

• Provide project direction to regional deployment coordinators and establish effective coordination across regions and countries.
• Ensure local HR teams understand their tasks, deadlines, dependencies, and required contributions.

• Track country deliverables, address capacity constraints, and escalate unresolved blockers while balancing project requirements with ongoing business operations.
  

Manage implementation partners and cross-functional dependencies

• Act as the primary Simon-Kucher HR delivery counterpart to PwC, coordinating commitments, deliverables, risks, and required decisions.
• Work with Finance, IT, and HR functional experts to manage dependencies across systems, processes, data, and implementation activities.
• Challenge delivery assumptions constructively and ensure that the appropriate business and technical owners review and accept specialist deliverables.

Coordinate testing, migration, and operational readiness

• Coordinate the planning and execution of HR testing, defect resolution, data migration, and validation activities with the responsible teams.
• Ensure that required business inputs, resources, test results, and sign-offs are available at the relevant project milestones.
• Track training and adoption readiness, identify gaps, and secure corrective actions from the responsible owners.

Prepare HR cutover, go-live, and stabilization

• Coordinate HR-specific cutover activities and regional readiness within the integrated program cutover framework.
• Ensure that cutover dependencies, readiness evidence, contingency requirements, and outstanding issues are visible to the appropriate decision-makers.
• Coordinate HR hypercare and the structured handover of outstanding responsibilities to operational teams.
  

Enable effective communication, decisions, and follow-through

• Prepare clear project updates, decision materials, implementation schedules, and stakeholder communications.
• Organize productive working sessions with appropriate preparation, participants, objectives, and documented follow-up.
• Resolve issues within your authority, escalate decisions and risks promptly, and keep stakeholders informed about progress, changes, and required actions.

Required qualifications and experience

• HR technology implementation experience: Substantial hands-on delivery responsibility in at least one complex enterprise HR technology implementation, such as SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, or a comparable HCM solution.
• Excellent project management skills: Proven ability to independently manage implementation plans, milestones, resources, risks, dependencies, and recovery actions.
• International stakeholder coordination: Experience driving project activities across geographically distributed teams in a matrixed organization.
• Implementation partner management: Experience coordinating and challenging external technology implementation partners, including managing commitments and delivery risks.
• Practical technical understanding: Sufficient knowledge of HR system implementations, including testing, data migration, integrations, access management, and cutover dependencies, to coordinate specialists and identify potential risks.
• Strong communication, digital collaboration, and delivery craftsmanship: Excellent spoken and written English at fluent proficiency, including the ability to independently prepare executive-ready communications and facilitate complex stakeholder discussions. Advanced practical skills in PowerPoint and Excel, and familiarity with Microsoft 365 collaboration tools, particularly Teams and SharePoint, or comparable platforms. Demonstrated experience using at least one AI productivity tool to support professional work, with appropriate judgment in reviewing outputs and protecting confidential information.
• Ownership and adaptability: A proactive, reliable working style, sound judgment under pressure, and the flexibility to collaborate across international time zones, including agreed availability during critical project phases.

Preferred qualifications and experience

• Direct SAP SuccessFactors implementation experience, particularly Employee Central and Time Off.
• Experience with multiple international HR technology implementations, ideally including cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
• Experience in consulting, professional services, or another fast-paced international environment.
• Practical knowledge of HR operations, business processes, and regional deployment requirements.
• Experience managing HR/Finance implementation dependencies, such as payroll integration, time tracking, reporting, or SAP S/4HANA interfaces.