Automotive SAP Transformation: Local Implementation Lead

Al Masaood; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 280,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Al Masaood in Abu Dhabi, UAE seeks an experienced Local Implementation Manager to drive readiness and adoption for a major SAP transformation. You will bridge business stakeholders and the SAP Programme Team, ensuring regulatory, operational, and process alignment, and coordinating testing, data readiness, training, and go-live preparation.

The role requires prior SAP rollout experience, familiarity with SAP SD, VSS, and C4C, and an ability to lead local change activities and user acceptance

Qualifications

• At least one full SAP rollout, from design to hypercare, as LIM or similar lead.
• Experience as Local Implementation Manager or functional consultant in SAP is preferred.
• Automotive dealership experience is preferred.
• UAE/GCC experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Gather, validate, and prioritize business requirements.
• Ensure local operational, regulatory, tax, and compliance requirements are captured.
• Promote SAP standard processes while managing local exceptions.
• Coordinate business review and approval of future-state processes.
• Serve as the primary business contact for the SAP programme.
• Own and manage the business readiness plan.
• Lead local change management and business engagement activities.
• Coordinate data cleansing, validation, and migration readiness.
• Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) readiness and execution.
• Lead business cutover planning, go-live activities, and hypercare support.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Business readiness

UAT readiness

Data readiness

Tools

SAP SD

SAP VSS

SAP C4C

Job description

Al Masaood in Abu Dhabi, UAE seeks an experienced Local Implementation Manager to drive readiness and adoption for a major SAP transformation. You will bridge business stakeholders and the SAP Programme Team, ensuring regulatory, operational, and process alignment, and coordinating testing, data readiness, training, and go-live preparation.

The role requires prior SAP rollout experience, familiarity with SAP SD, VSS, and C4C, and an ability to lead local change activities and user acceptance