Job Title: Senior Project Manager SAP S/4HANA
Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.
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Job Purpose and Overview
As the Senior PMO for our S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition transformation, you will be a central member of the extended program leadership team, ensuring governance, structure, and delivery excellence across this strategic initiative. Your role is to provide oversight, coordination, and support for all program activities, enabling the organization to achieve its objectives on time, within scope, and on budget. You will act as the backbone of program execution, driving standardization, transparency, and proactive risk management. The role requires strong collaboration across the EU&AMEAP business unit, global stakeholders, and the implementation partner.
The Senior PMO position will work with the other project team members and the Stewardship team to ensure the entire project meets its timeline, budget, and objectives. Working with the project team and the Implementation Partner, this role will actively lead the entire organization toward industry best practices, standardization, simplification, and automation. The position reports to the Manager PMO and requires approximately 30% travel.
This position provides a great leadership development opportunity for the successful candidate with high visibility to senior leadership of Dawn Foods.
What will you do as a Senior Project Manager SAP S4/HANA at Dawn Foods?
- Establish and maintain PMO governance frameworks, processes, and tools for the S/4HANA transformation program.
- Develop and manage integrated program plans, including timelines, milestones, dependencies, and resource allocation.
- Track program progress across workstreams and provide accurate, timely reporting to senior leadership.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks and interdependencies, driving proactive issue resolution.
- Act as a trusted advisor and key point of coordination between functional teams, technical teams, and external partners.
- Support change management and business readiness activities in collaboration with the OCM lead.
- Champion best practices in project management methodologies, documentation, compliance, and AI enablement within company policy.
- Support execution of critical phases including data migration, testing cycles, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
What does it take to be a Senior Project Manager SAP S4/HANA at Dawn Foods?
You are a structured and collaborative leader who thrives in complex transformation environments and enjoys working across cultures, functions, and stakeholder groups. You bring clarity, governance, and delivery discipline while maintaining a hands-on, solution-oriented mindset.
Furthermore, you recognize yourself in the following profile:
- Proven experience in PMO or project leadership for large-scale ERP transformations, ideally SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
- Strong knowledge of project management frameworks and tools and experience working in hybrid Agile/Waterfall delivery models.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across all organizational levels.
- Ability to manage complexity, prioritize effectively, and drive alignment in ambiguous environments.
- Fluent in English.
If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click “Apply now”.
Why should you apply?
At Dawn you’ll be part of an innovative company that recognizes and values your unique contributions and supports you in achieving your full potential. Our commitment to excellence extends to our employees, providing development opportunities to help you progress in your career. Our package includes:
- Competitive salary + bonus
- Pension Plan (2/3 of premium paid by Dawn)
- 25 days of annual leave, plus 1 day off to celebrate your birthday!
- Laptop and phone
- Bicycle scheme
You’ll also be able to enjoy such benefits as:
- Hybrid Working; the opportunity to split your week between the office and home
- Employee Assistance Program to support you and your family
- Volunteering program; spend a day volunteering in your local community
- Internal Recognition platform
- Access to over 10,000 courses on the Linkedin Learning platform
- Monthly wellness initiatives
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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.
Requisition ID: 37620