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Regional Project Lead – Workplace & Capital Projects, APAC

What you’ll do: 

The Regional Project Lead – Workplace & Capital Projects, APAC is accountable for the end-to-end leadership, governance, and delivery of SAP’s workplace and capital projects portfolio across the APAC region.
The role ensures predictable delivery outcomes, strong financial discipline, and alignment with global GRF strategies while responding to diverse country and business requirements across APAC.

Key Responsibilities

Regional Capital Project & Portfolio Leadership

•Lead the delivery of a complex, multi-country portfolio of capital projects and workplace initiatives across APAC.
•Own the full project lifecycle: feasibility, business case, design, procurement, construction, and handover.
•Act as the senior escalation point for delivery risks, issues, and cross-country dependencies.

Capex Planning, Governance & Financial Discipline

 
•Own regional Capex planning, prioritisation, and forecasting in alignment with global planning cycles.
•Ensure strong cost baselining, cashflow planning, and cost-to-complete controls across all projects.
•Maintain high forecast accuracy through structured monthly reviews and proactive risk management.
•Ensure all project data and approvals are accurately maintained in global systems (PPM) and are audit-ready.

Workplace Strategy Implementation

 
•Translate global workplace, hybrid work, and space strategy principles into regionally appropriate solutions.
•Ensure workplace design, space planning, and change management initiatives support business needs and employee experience.
•Drive space efficiency and utilisation improvement across the APAC portfolio.

Governance, Standards & Global Alignment

 
•Ensure all projects comply with global GREWP standards for design, sustainability, branding, safety, and technology.
•Actively contribute APAC insights, lessons learned, and best practices into global COEs and forums.
•Support global initiatives related to project delivery models, tools, and process standardisation.

External Partner & Delivery Model Management

•Lead and govern external PMs, architects, engineers, and contractors across the region.
•Ensure consistent delivery models, performance expectations, and reporting standards.
•Partner with Global Procurement on sourcing strategies and contract governance.

Stakeholder & Matrix Leadership

•Work closely with the Global leads for Workplace and Capital Projects on process alignment with global standards,  guidelines and reporting governance
•Build strong alignment between regional execution teams and global/ regional functional teams (Workplace, Projects, ESG, Technology/ GPS/GPO/EC etc ).
•Operate effectively within a matrix organisation, influencing without direct authority.

Team Leadership & Capability Development

•Lead, mentor, and develop the APAC GRF and workplace teams.
•Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
•Enable knowledge sharing and capability uplift across countries.

What you bring:

Education and Experience

•Degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
•15+ years of experience delivering large, complex capital projects.
•Proven experience leading multi-country project portfolios in APAC.
•Strong financial, governance, and stakeholder management experience.
•Experience working in a global, matrixed organisation.

Key Competencies

•Strategic and portfolio-level thinking
•Strong financial and commercial acumen
•Executive stakeholder engagement
•Risk and change management
•Cross-cultural leadership
•Influencing without authority

Meet Your Team

Global Real Estate, Workplace & Projects team oversees SAP's global real estate portfolio strategy. We steer and empower through clear processes, guidelines, and knowledge sharing. By employing a global location strategy, our team helps guide and support workspace design and project execution,
while ensuring efficient use of resources and capital investments.

Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.  
We win with inclusion
SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.
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Requisition ID: 446018  | Work Area: Administration  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid