Program Manager – Complex Early Engagements (HPE GreenLake)
Compensation
Not disclosed
Location
Bengaluru, Karnātaka, India
Work setup
Remote
Seniority
Not specified
Employment
Not specified
Experience
8+ years
Category
Project management
Posted
Skills
accessibility
agile
cloud
erp
financial-modeling
pmp
program-management
risk-assessment
sap
stakeholder-management
Nice to have
Experience supporting SAP programs, ERP transformations, cloud migrations, or managed services engagements.
PMP, PgMP, Agile, or equivalent certification.
Experience working with enterprise sales processes, pricing, contracting, and delivery organizations.
Knowledge of GreenLake, infrastructure services, cloud solutions, or consumption-based business models.
Experience leading global and cross-functional teams.
Full description
Program Manager – Complex Early Engagements (HPE GreenLake)
This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
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The SAP Complex Engagement Program Manager is responsible for leading the governance, coordination, and execution readiness of HPE's most strategic SAP opportunities and programs. This role serves as the central point of leadership across sales, solution architects, pricing, finance, legal, procurement, delivery, and executive stakeholders to ensure SAP engagements are properly qualified, governed, solutioned, contracted, and transitioned into successful delivery. As the SAP business continues to grow, this role provides the operational discipline, executive visibility, and cross-functional coordination needed to scale the program while reducing risk, improving cycle times, and increasing win rates.
What You’ll Do:
SAP Opportunity & Program Leadership
Lead governance and operational management of strategic SAP opportunities from qualification through booking.
Coordinate activities across SAP sales, solution architects, account teams, finance, legal, procurement, and delivery organizations.
Drive program execution for large, multi-region, and multi-workstream SAP engagements.
Facilitate decision-making and alignment among executive stakeholders.
Governance & Deal Oversight
Establish and maintain governance processes for SAP pursuits.
Lead opportunity reviews, risk assessments, and executive checkpoints.
Ensure adherence to approvals, commercial policies, and business controls.
Track key milestones, dependencies, commitments, and deliverables.
Workshop & Discovery Management
Coordinate customer workshops, discovery sessions, and solution development activities.
Capture actions, decisions, risks, and requirements.
Ensure stakeholder accountability and follow-through.
Drive alignment between customer objectives and solution strategies.
Sizing, Pricing & Commercial Support
Coordinate sizing, pricing, and commercial review activities.
Track quote development, assumptions, dependencies, and approvals.
Support financial modeling and deal readiness reviews.
Identify and escalate issues impacting deal closure.
Executive Reporting & Communications
Develop executive dashboards, status reports, and steering committee materials.
Provide leadership visibility into pipeline, risks, blockers, and forecasted outcomes.
Communicate complex technical and commercial topics in clear business language.
Maintain program-wide action item and decision logs.
Risk & Dependency Management
Proactively identify commercial, operational, technical, and delivery risks.
Develop mitigation strategies and escalation paths.
Manage interdependencies between sales, delivery, third-party partners, and customer teams.
Ensure readiness for successful project transition and deployment.
Continuous Improvement & Scaling
Develop repeatable frameworks, templates, and governance standards for SAP engagements.
Improve opportunity cycle times and execution efficiency.
Establish best practices for workshops, solution reviews, and opportunity management.
Drive operational excellence across the SAP program portfolio.
What You Need to Bring:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Technology, Finance, or related field.
8+ years of program management, PMO, operations, consulting, or complex deal management experience.
Experience managing large enterprise technology programs or strategic customer engagements.
Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
Proven ability to manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting SAP programs, ERP transformations, cloud migrations, or managed services engagements.
PMP, PgMP, Agile, or equivalent certification.
Experience working with enterprise sales processes, pricing, contracting, and delivery organizations.
Knowledge of GreenLake, infrastructure services, cloud solutions, or consumption-based business models.
Experience leading global and cross-functional teams.
Accessibility
HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.
Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.
What We Can Offer You:Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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