Ivan Overton

Senior, hands-on project manager focused on SAP SuccessFactors and Employee Central Payroll implementations, with recent delivery experience across complex environments. Currently an Associate Partner at EPI-USE Africa, with a track record of taking sustained day-to-day ownership of substantial projects. Combines disciplined project control with deep organisational change and stakeholder-management experience.

Associate Partner at EPI-USE Africa (2025-06 – Present)

Senior Manager at EPI-USE Africa (2022-01 – 2025-05)

Project Manager at KOMATSU (2025-10 – Present)

Employee Central Payroll implementation | 4 countries

• Day-to-day project manager for a four-country ECP implementation, coordinating client and implementation teams across the delivery lifecycle.
• Automated ECC to ECP payroll migration plus greenfield implementations in 3 countries.

Project Manager at VIVO ENERGY/ENGEN (2024-08 – 2025-10)

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and PaySpace payroll implementation | 5 countries

• Managed delivery of a five-country SuccessFactors and payroll implementation, supporting Vivo Energy's acquisition of Engen, including complex integrations to legacy systems
• Coordinated the major data, integration, testing and business-change dependencies through planning and execution.

Project Manager at ILLOVO SUGAR AFRICA (2022-08 – 2023-07)

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central implementation | 7 countries

• Led a seven-country Employee Central implementation with major live payroll integration dependencies across the regional landscape.
• Multilayered programme and stakeholder environment with over 30,000 employees.
• Established and ran the day-to-day project controls, governance forums and escalation mechanisms required to keep stakeholders and workstreams aligned.

Global Change Management Lead at BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM (2022-02 – 2023-07)

Employee Central Payroll programme | 6 countries

• Led the organisational change workstream for a six-country ECP programme, covering process mapping, change planning, business readiness and stakeholder engagement.
• Directed other change resources and project-managed the OCM workstream within the wider implementation.

Global Project Manager at VIVO ENERGY (2019-01 – 2021-12)

SAP SuccessFactors and PaySpace payroll implementation | 26 countries

• Global Project Manager for a 26-country rollout covering Employee Central, Onboarding, Compensation and PaySpace payroll.
• Final implementation Wave interrupted before UAT by COVID-19 lockdowns. Converted to a fully remote delivery pattern and still completed the implementation on time and at a high level of quality.

Global Project Manager at MEDICLINIC (2016-07 – 2019-01)

SAP SuccessFactors and OpenText implementation | 4 Countries

• Project manager for an Employee Central, Onboarding, Offboarding, Employee Central Service Centre and SAP JAM implementation.
• 38,000 employees with legacy payroll integrations
• Worked across a complex international stakeholder environment, connecting implementation delivery with business readiness and adoption.

Change Management and Training Lead at Glencore Alloys

SAP-enabled procure-to-pay optimisation

Project and Change Leadership at FNB, Sasol, WesBank and Pioneer Foods

Project and change leadership across HR, procurement, data, shared services, SAP upgrades and business transformation

HR/payroll Project Manager and ERP Change Manager at Pretoria Portland Cement

HR/payroll Project Manager and ERP Change Manager for BAAN and Cyborg HR/payroll implementations

Founder and Director at INK IT Africa (2019-06 – 2021-12)

SAP SuccessFactors consulting, support and implementation services

Founder and Director at ChangeWright (2000-01 – 2021-12)

Project management, change management consulting and professional training

Founder/Member at Triangulum Consulting

Group OD Advisor and ERP Team Member at Pretoria Portland Cement

MA in Psychology – University of Johannesburg

BA Hons in Applied Psychology – University of Johannesburg

BA in Psychology and English – University of the Witwatersrand