08/25/2026 updated
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Senior Project Manager | SAP S/4HANA | Agile & Waterfall | ERP Programme Lead
Belgrade, Serbia
Worldwide
B.Sc. in Business and Management, University of BelgradeAbout me
Senior Project Manager, 10+ years in enterprise SAP: S/4HANA, EWM, TM, Retail, F&R, PPM, SolMan, PI/PO. I came from the business side, not consulting, so I own the lifecycle myself, requirements to hypercare. Three greenfield rollouts, seven-site carve-out.
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Project & Programme Management (Agile & Waterfall)
End-to-end delivery of large-scale platform and enterprise transformation projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, covering scope definition, WBS creation, budget tracking, milestone gate testing, and structured hypercare governance.
SAP S/4HANA Migration & Greenfield Rollout
Leadership of full S/4HANA migrations and greenfield SAP implementations across multiple manufacturing sites and countries, including data migration sequencing, cutover strategy, fallback planning, FIT-GAP analysis, and interface management.
REST API & Payment Integration Coordination
Coordination of REST API payment integration delivery for major iGaming operators, managing vendor dependencies, integration timelines, compliance alignment, and cross-team conflict resolution across FE, BE, and BO workstreams.
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Assembly and leadership of cross-functional teams of up to 12 members across engineering, functional, and business domains, bridging stakeholders from manufacturing, logistics, procurement, and adjacent functions.
Stakeholder Communication & Steering Reporting
Establishment of communication frameworks and reporting cadences for senior stakeholders, including weekly status reporting, Steering Committee updates, and C-level executive briefings.
Vendor & External Partner Management
Contracting and coordination of external SAP consultants and implementation partners across multiple parallel projects, managing scope, deliverables, timelines, and vendor performance analysis.
Risk Management & Quality Gate Governance
Identification and mitigation of integration risks and cross-team conflicts, ensuring quality gates are met at each release milestone through structured sign-offs and end-to-end testing.
SAP Retail & Promotional Algorithm Implementation
Greenfield design and SAP Retail implementation of promotional algorithms, FIT-GAP analysis between standard SAP Retail functionality and client requirements, and delivery of operational training.
Business & Financial Analysis
Planning and monitoring of annual project budgets, vendor performance analysis against contractual obligations, profitability analysis across business lines, and sales revenue analysis for commercial planning and forecasting.
End-to-end delivery of large-scale platform and enterprise transformation projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, covering scope definition, WBS creation, budget tracking, milestone gate testing, and structured hypercare governance.
SAP S/4HANA Migration & Greenfield Rollout
Leadership of full S/4HANA migrations and greenfield SAP implementations across multiple manufacturing sites and countries, including data migration sequencing, cutover strategy, fallback planning, FIT-GAP analysis, and interface management.
REST API & Payment Integration Coordination
Coordination of REST API payment integration delivery for major iGaming operators, managing vendor dependencies, integration timelines, compliance alignment, and cross-team conflict resolution across FE, BE, and BO workstreams.
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Assembly and leadership of cross-functional teams of up to 12 members across engineering, functional, and business domains, bridging stakeholders from manufacturing, logistics, procurement, and adjacent functions.
Stakeholder Communication & Steering Reporting
Establishment of communication frameworks and reporting cadences for senior stakeholders, including weekly status reporting, Steering Committee updates, and C-level executive briefings.
Vendor & External Partner Management
Contracting and coordination of external SAP consultants and implementation partners across multiple parallel projects, managing scope, deliverables, timelines, and vendor performance analysis.
Risk Management & Quality Gate Governance
Identification and mitigation of integration risks and cross-team conflicts, ensuring quality gates are met at each release milestone through structured sign-offs and end-to-end testing.
SAP Retail & Promotional Algorithm Implementation
Greenfield design and SAP Retail implementation of promotional algorithms, FIT-GAP analysis between standard SAP Retail functionality and client requirements, and delivery of operational training.
Business & Financial Analysis
Planning and monitoring of annual project budgets, vendor performance analysis against contractual obligations, profitability analysis across business lines, and sales revenue analysis for commercial planning and forecasting.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2026
Languages
GermanBasic knowledgeEnglishFluentFrenchGoodItalianBasic knowledge
Project history
Lead REST API payment integration delivery for a major iGaming operator, coordinating Mooney, Onshop, and Fabrick, managing vendor dependencies, integration timelines, and compliance alignment. Drive a cross-platform application restyling project covering UI, back-end, and back-office, aligning design, FE, BE, and BO teams. Resolve cross-team conflicts between FE and BO workstreams and run end-to-end testing, sign-offs, and operational handover for each release milestone.
Delivered three separate greenfield SAP implementations for new automotive manufacturing facilities in China, Serbia, and Bulgaria. Led a full S/4HANA migration across two manufacturing sites. Managed a product line carve-out across 7 manufacturing locations in 5 countries. Owned the full delivery lifecycle including requirement analysis, FIT-GAP analysis, WBS definition, budget creation and tracking, milestone gate testing, and Go-Live with structured hypercare. Established communication frameworks and reporting tempo across all teams and senior stakeholders. Contracted and coordinated external SAP consultants and implementation partners.
Led EWM and TM migration to SAP S/4HANA at Lidl's central logistics site in Nova Pazova, leading a team of 6. Defined the data migration and cutback strategy, executed phased cutover, and managed structured hypercare through stabilisation. Managed existing interface landscape pre-migration, designed and tested new interfaces for the S/4HANA target architecture, and coordinated their release to production. Planned and executed functional, milestone, and end-to-end testing across all migration phases and algorithm changes.