Corporate Strategy and Transformation Projects - Director (f/m/d)

SAP IT Business Systeme; Garching bei München; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP SE is seeking a Director for Corporate Strategy and Transformation Projects to advise the Executive Board and steer high-priority initiatives. The role emphasizes setting up strategic programs, aligning cross-functional teams, and guiding them from strategy through transformation.

Strong AI and technology expertise are essential, with interaction across C-suite levels. You will engage with senior leaders, shape projects end-to-end, and ensure rapid translation from strategy to execution

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading strategy and transformation programs.
• Proven ability to advise senior executives and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of AI technologies and business applications.
• Experience working with board-level stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end transformation projects from strategy to execution.
• Collaborate with SAP's CEO/Executive Board and executives.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives on topics like technology strategy, AI, M&A, finance.
• Provide clear analyses, synthesize findings, and present to senior leadership.
• Build and maintain a broad stakeholder network across Board Areas.

Skills

Project leadership

Strategy programs

Executive stakeholder mgmt

AI/Tech strategy

Cross-functional collab

Tools

Microsoft 365

Joule Work

Claude Code

Job description

Corporate Strategy and Transformation Projects - Director (f/m/d)

• Full-time

At SAP, you\'ll belong to a diverse, international community that learns fast, shares openly, and celebrates impact. You\'ll have access to global peers, modern tools, and development pathways-so your ideas travel and your career grows. You\'ll collaborate with executives and experts worldwide, setting the pace for innovation and inclusion in our growth culture.

Where you belong

The Corporate Strategy Group is part of the S&O board area and consists of Strategy & Transformation project teams, the CMI team as well as the Corporate Portfolio Team. The strategic project teams shape SAP’s strategy and drive the execution of SAP’s transformation in collaboration with the CEO, COO, and the Executive Board of SAP.

What you\'ll build

You will be a core contributor to SAP’s corporate strategy and transformation by advising SAP's Executive Board and executives on key strategic decisions. As a Director you will shape and drive high-priority cross-functional, Executive Board-sponsored strategic / transformational projects. In a highly dynamic team, you will work on setting-up those projects and driving them especially through the strategy phase. To ensure end-to-end ownership and fast strategy to execution you will continue to support them also along the transformation phase.

Main responsibilities:

• Engage actively in SAP’s transformation towards a Business AI company


• Drive key aspects of a strategy project incl. e.g., identifying issues, forming hypotheses, designing and conducting qualitative and quantitative analyses across a broad range of topics, synthesizing conclusions, driving stakeholder consensus, deriving a strategy and an executable plan


• Take prominent roles in shaping and executing strategic initiatives and transformation projects end-to-end – from the start of a project through its transformation


• Facilitate proactive stakeholder and expectation management; build-up and maintain a large network across all involved roles on operational level to support collaboration & execution


• Act as trusted advisor and strategy evangelist to SAP's senior leaders and executives

What you\'ll bring

• Strong professional experience in a Project Leader function


• Experience in leading strategic programs – with senior- and board-level stakeholders and ability to drive multiple in parallel


• Experience across a range of strategic topics (e.g., technology strategy, AI, M&A, finance, organizational development, commercial & operational excellence)


• Proven AI, software and technology expertise demonstrated


• Fast problem solving, independently, and constantly ‘thinks on his/her feet’


• Outstanding analytical skills with the ability to prepare analyses in short timeframes


• Strong communication skills, esp. for presentation design and story lining for target groups across Board Areas


• Maturity and self-confidence to interact with high-level executives in- and outside of SAP


• Resiliency to working under time and management pressure with a high degree of flexibility


• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Excel, PowerPoint) as well as with AI tools (Joule Work, Claude Code) required


• Excellent knowledge of English required, knowledge of German is a plus

Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services
Company: SAP SE
Location: Garching, Hamburg, Berlin
Expected Travel: 0 - 10%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Part Time / Regular Full Time
Career Level: T4PF
Grade Level: C2-29 to C2-31 (Internal Strategic Consulting Expert)
Hiring Manager: Patrick Zimmermann
Recruiter: Robin de Mos

The position can be filled as part time position.

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