SAP Datasphere and SAC Consultant

Senior Delivery Lead – SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 4–6 Years

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Delivery Lead with strong experience in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) delivery and program management. The candidate will be responsible for leading SAC implementations, enhancements, releases, and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring timely delivery aligned with business objectives.

The role will act as a key liaison between business, functional, technical, and technology teams to drive successful delivery outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery & Execution Leadership

• Own end-to-end delivery of SAC enhancements, releases, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Track milestones, timelines, deliverables, and project priorities.
• Ensure alignment with monthly deployment cycles and release governance.
• Drive delivery activities to meet business expectations and timelines.

Program Governance & Reporting

• Lead weekly project/status reporting and stakeholder updates.
• Manage RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues & Dependencies).
• Identify and escalate delivery risks and blockers proactively.
• Drive structured updates for leadership and Steering Committee (SteerCo) forums.
• Act as an escalation point for resolving critical delivery issues.

Functional & Technical Integration

• Work closely with FP&A, Planning, Workforce Planning, and other functional teams.
• Coordinate with SAC technical teams, L2/L3 support teams, product owners, and developers.
• Translate business requirements into actionable technical delivery plans.
• Ensure effective coordination between business and technology teams.

Continuous Improvement & Change Management

• Manage the pipeline of:

* SAC enhancements

* Defects

* Change requests

* Continuous improvement initiatives

• Prioritize requests based on business value, feasibility, and delivery timelines.
• Promote fit-to-standard approaches and SAP best practices.
• Drive process improvements and better adoption of SAC solutions.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Engage with senior business stakeholders across FP&A, R&D, Commercial, and Technology functions.
• Coordinate with external technology partners and vendors.
• Build strong relationships across business and technical teams.
• Handle negotiations, dependencies, and competing priorities effectively.
• Support tight timelines, weekend deployments, and critical releases when required.

Required Skills

SAP / Analytics

• Strong experience in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) implementation and delivery.
• Good understanding of SAC reporting/planning capabilities.
• Awareness of the broader SAP ecosystem, including:

* SAP S/4HANA

* SAP Datasphere

* SAP BW/BW4HANA

Delivery & Program Management

• End-to-end project/program delivery experience.
• Experience managing SAC enhancements, releases, and deployment cycles.
• Strong Agile and Waterfall/Hybrid delivery experience.
• Release management and deployment governance.
• Strong RAID management experience.
• Risk, issue, dependency, and change management.

Stakeholder Management

• Strong experience working with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate with VP/Director-level stakeholders.
• Cross-functional coordination across Business, Technology, Functional and Change teams.
• Strong negotiation, influencing, and communication skills.

Preferred Profile

• 4–6 years of overall experience.
• Strong SAC delivery experience with proven ownership of releases and enhancements.
• Experience working in enterprise-scale SAP environments.

Job Details

Role: Senior Delivery Lead – SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Experience: 4–6 Years

Location: Bangalore

Work Mode: As per business requirement

Domain: SAP Analytics / Enterprise Planning

Primary Skill: SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)