
Neil Sutherland
SAP Project Manager
Complex SAP programmes, delivered and adopted
SAP project manager with fifteen years delivering ERP implementations and upgrades for enterprises across the UK, the last eight running SAP programmes end to end from a base in Edinburgh. Leads full lifecycle delivery — scoping, planning, budgets, vendors and cross-functional teams — across SAP S/4HANA, finance, supply-chain and HR modules. Delivered a multi-million-pound S/4HANA migration on time and on budget for a manufacturing client. Manages stakeholders from the shop floor to the board, controls risk and scope, and keeps business and technical teams aligned through go-live and hypercare. Strong on both SAP and the change management that makes a rollout stick. Looking for an SAP programme- or project-manager role on ambitious transformation work.
Caledonian Consulting Group - Edinburgh, UK
SAP Project Manager April 2016 to Present 10 years & 3 months
Delivered a multi-million-pound S/4HANA migration on time and fully on budget for a manufacturing client.
Lead the cross-functional business and technical teams right through configuration, testing, go-live and full hypercare.
Manage the stakeholders from the shop floor to the board, controlling risk, scope and expectations.
Coordinate all the vendors and the implementation partners across the finance, supply-chain and HR modules.
Drive the change management and the training that make each rollout genuinely adopted across the business.
Northern ERP Solutions - Edinburgh, UK
SAP Consultant / Team Lead August 2007 to March 2016 8 years & 8 months
Led the workstreams and small teams on multiple ERP implementation projects.
Managed the blueprinting, testing and the cutover across multiple client rollouts.
Earned PMP and SAP Activate certification and a full project-manager role.
Edinburgh Systems - Edinburgh, UK
SAP / IT Analyst June 2005 to July 2007 2 years & 2 months
Learned SAP configuration, testing and support on live, real business systems.
Built the functional grounding that led into a full SAP consulting role.
Then moved into a consultant role on full ERP implementation projects.
University of Edinburgh
BSc (Hons) Information Systems (September 2004 to June 2007)
PMI / SAP
PMP & SAP Activate Project Manager Certification (January 2014 to September 2014)
S/4HANA on time and budget
Rollouts that stick
Finance & Supply-Chain Module Rollout
Project Manager (January 2019 to March 2020)
Global Template Rollout
Project Manager (January 2021 to December 2021)
PMP & SAP Activate
PMI / SAP (September 2014 to Present)
S/4HANA & SAP Solution Architecture
SAP (April 2019 to Present)
- SAP Programme Delivery
- SAP S/4HANA
- ERP Implementation
- SAP Activate Methodology
- Budget & Scope Control
- Stakeholder Management
- Vendor Management
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Go-Live & Hypercare