Erp Platform Lead

Position Title

Associate Director - ERP Platform Lead

Remote/Hybrid

Senior Director, Technology Business Partnering for Finance, Corporate Services & ERP

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Together, WE enable individuals to look, feel, and be their true selves.

Wella Company is one of the world's leading beauty companies, comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd. With 6,000 employees globally, presence in over 100 countries, Wella Company and its brands enable consumers to look, feel, and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry, Wella Company empowers its people to delight consumers, inspire beauty professionals, engage communities, and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.

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The Associate Director - ERP Platform Lead is a strategic and hands‑on leader responsible for the end-to-end ERP application platform – spanning SAP ECC, S/4

HANA, and satellite systems. This role owns the ERP (SAP) platform roadmap, oversees outsourced delivery partners, and ensures architectural alignment with Wella's enterprise standards. Sitting within the Foundational Platform ERP team, the ERP Platform Lead partners closely with Business Process Owners, Solution Architects, and Service Delivery to ensure the stability, scalability, and modernization of SAP systems.

In addition, the role contributes to SAP innovation, vendor roadmap alignment, budget and licensing optimization, and works closely with infrastructure teams on cloud capacity and performance management – ensuring the SAP platform supports current needs and is fit for future transformation. The ERP Platform Lead influences technical policy, monitors emerging technologies, and maintains readiness of both production and non‑production environments.

1. Platform Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and evolve the ERP (SAP) application platform roadmap aligned with enterprise strategy
• Own lifecycle plans including upgrades, migrations, patching, and modernization
• Coordinate across application teams and enterprise architects to align SAP with platform standards
• Drive SAP‑related innovation and align with vendor product roadmaps

2. Technical Governance & Operations

• Ensure architectural consistency across SAP instances, interfaces, and satellite systems
• Manage change control, transport strategy, and performance tuning across SAP environments
• Track technical debt, assess risks, and plan remediation for inclusion in platform roadmap
• Ensure non‑production SAP environments are fit for purpose

3. Vendor & Budget Oversight

• Manage AMS/vendor delivery, ensuring SLA adherence and service quality.
• Contribute to licensing model optimization and contract negotiations.
• Define SAP‑related costing inputs and support budget management.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure SAP environments run effectively on underlying computers, storage, and cloud platforms (without owning infra directly)

4. Security, Audit & Compliance

• Enforce platform standards for security, reliability, and compliance
• Define access policies in collaboration with Info Sec
• Ensure compliance with IT general controls, SoD, and audit requirements

5. Leadership & Collaboration

• Simplify complex technical concepts for non‑technical stakeholders
• Guide decision‑making, balancing trade‑offs in cost, scalability, and performance
• Build strong collaboration across IT, business leadership, and global teams

• Deep understanding of SAP technical architecture, Basis, and landscape management
• Experience with hybrid SAP environments (on‑prem, cloud, managed hosting)
• Ability to partner effectively with infrastructure teams, with awareness of cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, containers, serverless)
• Strong vendor management, negotiation, and contract oversight skills
• Familiarity with SAP licensing models and cost optimization
• Ability to model alternative architectures and assess emerging technologies
• Skilled communicator, able to engage both technical and business stakeholders
• Bachelor's degree in computer science,…