SAP S/4HANA S2C procurerement business lead

Role

SAP S/4HANA S2C Procurement Business Lead

Key responsibilities

• You will act as the accountable Procurement business lead for the Source-to-Contract (S2C) stream and represent S2C interests in programme governance and cross-stream forums.

• You will maintain the stream roadmap, milestones, resource needs, dependencies, decisions, risks, issues and mitigation actions.

• You will obtain timely business decisions and escalate unresolved matters through the agreed governance structure.

• You will coordinate business participation in design validation, data validation, testing, training, deployment and hypercare.

• You will provide regular status reporting covering progress, milestones, dependencies, RAID items, decisions and recovery actions.

• You will serve as the primary interface between the programme, the implementation team, Procurement stakeholders, IT, process owners and change representatives.

• You will coordinate input to UAT, including scenarios, scripts, test data, defect prioritisation, validation and sign-off.

• You will provide oversight and progress reporting of Data Migration activities.

• You will perform business-readiness assessments covering processes, roles, access, data, training, communications, support and cutover.

• You will perform trainings and user onboarding to S/4.

Skills and experience

• Mandatory: At least five years' experience leading business streams or workstreams in large international transformation programmes.

• Mandatory: Strong Source-to-Contract process knowledge and practical SAP S/4HANA implementation experience (at least 8 years) in a leading position, including testing, migration and deployment.

• Mandatory: Demonstrated stakeholder management, governance, workshop facilitation, risk management and executive reporting skills.

• Preferred: Experience in Procurement Excellence, procurement transformation and working in matrix organisations.

• Preferred: Experience as a functional consultant driving Procurement Tool implementation projects from idea to delivery.

Languages

• Fluent English.

• German, Swedish or Dutch is an advantage.

Education

• Master’s degree and a recognised project or programme management certification, such as PRINCE2 or PMP.