SAP Sales, Service & VMS Solution Architect

Job Title

SAP Sales, Service & VMS Solution Architect

 #

59408

Date posted

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Woking

Business area

IT

Department

IT

Position level

4 - Management / Technical Expert (L-18)

Working time

Full Time

Contract type

Permanent

Working pattern

9am - 6pm Monday to Friday

What to Expect
The SAP Sales, Service & VMS Solution Architect is responsible for shaping, designing and governing end-to-end SAP solutions supporting McLaren's Commercial business unit, covering the lifecycle of vehicles, from sales planning, order management and fulfilment, intercompany sales, vehicle distribution and service.

The role ensures McLaren's SAP landscape supports vehicle traceability, customer fulfilment, operational efficiency and standardisation whilst enabling the transition to SAP S/4

HANA and maintaining clean core principles.

The role requires deep expertise across SAP Sales & Distribution (SD), SAP Customer Service (CS), SAP Vehicle Management System (VMS) for automotive, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, supportable and integrated SAP solutions aligned to SAP Automotive best practice.

Scope of the Role SAP ECC EHP8, SAP S/4

HANA, SAP VMS, SAP Fiori, SAP BTP and relevant integration capabilities. Vehicle Sales, Vehicle Ordering, Vehicle Allocation, Vehicle Lifecycle Management, Pricing & Commercials, Dealer & Distributor Processes (intercompany sales), Vehicle Logistics & Delivery, Customer Service (service orders), Order-to-Cash, Variant Configuration Integration, Vehicle Master Data, and integration with SAP modules (MM, PP, FI, VC) and external PLM, CRM, MES, 3PL solutions.
What You'll Do

1) Solution Design & Architecture Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, commercial processes and operational challenges.

Design end-to-end SAP solutions for processes for the scoped domains.

Define scalable, fit-to-standard solutions leveraging SAP best practices and clean core principles.

Produce solution blueprints, process designs, architecture documents, both challenging and guiding SI partners.

Ensure solutions support future S/4

HANA adoption and business growth / efficiency targets.
2) Migration & Modernisation Provide guidance on S/4

HANA capabilities including embedded analytics, Fiori and automation opportunities.

Support transformation roadmaps that balance business value, operational risk, technical debt reduction and adoption readiness.
3) Governance & Standards4) Delivery & Quality Assurance5) Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory
What You'll Bring
Extensive experience as an SAP Solution Lead and Architect, within the stated domains, in complex automotive environments.

Deep knowledge of SAP sales, distribution, vehicle management, customer service processes and integration with SAP modules (MM, PP, FI, VC) and external PLM, CRM, MES, 3PL solutions.

Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior business and IT stakeholders

Experience defining and implementing SAP capabilities within the stated domains.

Experience using SAP Activate, agile, hybrid-agile or waterfall delivery methods across full project life cycles. embedded analytics, SAP Integration Suite and cloud integration patterns.

Experience of familiarity with SAP Business Transformation Management capabilities;
Cloud ALM, Signavio, Walk Me, and testing automation tools.
What We'll Do for You
We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

Structured career development framework
25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days Enhanced company pension scheme

Discretionary annual bonus award

Private medical insurance and…