Enterprise Director - SAP Deployment and Advisory

Position Summary Role Summary

We are seeking a Director, SAP S/4 Deployment & Advisory (Enterprise Director, Digital & IT), to lead enterprise-wide SAP S/4

HANA deployments and provide strategic advisory across business and technology teams. This role owns delivery governance, program execution, and stakeholder alignment for SAP S/4 initiatives. The Director partners with key stakeholders to standardize processes, ensure compliance and controls, reduce customization, and enable scalable, value-driven digital capabilities across the enterprise.

SAP S/4 Program Leadership & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end SAP S/4
  
  HANA deployment programs (greenfield, brownfield, or hybrid), from strategy through go-live and hypercare.
• Establish and manage program governance (steering committees, status reporting, risk/issue management, RAID logs).
• Drive integrated plans across work streams (Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sales, Data, Integration, Security).
• Oversee cutover planning, readiness assessments, testing strategies, and release management.
• Establish guiding principles for standardization, template adoption, and clean-core practices.

Advisory, Business Partnership & Value Realization

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on SAP S/4 roadmap, operating model, and transformation strategy.
• Translate business priorities into SAP-enabled capabilities and measurable outcomes (cost, cycle time, compliance, customer impact).
• Sponsor fit-to-standard workshops and ensure decisions are documented, traceable, and auditable.
• Provide guidance on standardization vs. customization, fit-to-standard workshops, and process harmonization.
• Ensure strong testing discipline (SIT/UAT/regression), cutover planning, hypercare readiness, and stabilization.
• Drive schedule, budget, resourcing, benefits realization, and risk management across various teams.

Solution Governance & Architecture Alignment

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and platform teams to ensure alignment with target-state architecture.
• Guide decisions on SAP modules and capabilities (e.g., FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, EWM, TM, Central Finance, RISE with SAP-based on scope).
• Ensure integration strategy alignment (SAP BTP, middleware, APIs/EDI, data platforms) and non-SAP ecosystem interoperability.

Data, Analytics, and Reporting Enablement

• Sponsor data governance and migration strategy (master data, transactional data, data quality).
• Ensure reporting and analytics approach is aligned (SAP Analytics Cloud, BW/4
  
  HANA, data lake/warehouse integrations as applicable).

Vendor / SI Management

• Manage System Integrator (SI) and SAP partner relationships, including SOWs, deliverables, budget, and performance.
• Drive accountability for milestones, quality, and adherence to standards.
• Build internal capability and reduce long-term dependency on external partners.

People Leadership & Change Enablement

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing SAP delivery/advisory team.
• Partner with Change Management and Training teams to support adoption, communications, and role-based enablement.
• Ensure business ownership of process outcomes and post-go-live support models.

Risk, Compliance, and Controls

• Ensure controls, security, and compliance requirements are met (SOX, auditability, segregation of duties, regulatory needs, and GRC alignment).
• Promote disciplined documentation, testing evidence, and operational readiness.
• Govern change management and release controls to protect production stability.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business, Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred).
• 10+ years of SAP experience with significant leadership in SAP S/4
  
  HANA deployments.
• 10+ years enterprise IT and digital transformation experience with deep knowledge of ERP end-to-end processes.
• 5+ years leading complex SAP S/4 or ECC-to-S/4 programs in global/multi-entity environments.
• Proven experience leading large, cross-functional programs with executive-level stakeholder management.
• Strong understanding of core end-to-end business processes (Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Plan-to-Produce).
• Strong program governance, executive communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated success managing SI partners, budgets, timelines, and quality metrics.
• Proven experience with vendor management, large budgets, and multi-year portfolios.
• Experience with governance frameworks, SDLC/Agile delivery models, and enterprise change initiatives.

• Experience with RISE with SAP, cloud hosting strategies, SAP operations models, and template-based global rollouts.
• Background in manufacturing, distribution, or industrial enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of SAP BTP, Fiori, integration platforms, and modern data architecture patterns, and clean-core models.
• Experience with MDG/master data, large-scale data migration, and enterprise analytics modernization.
• Familiarity with GRC, SOX controls, and regulated industry requirements.

• Executive communication and…