Global SAP S/4HANA Transformation Director (m/f/d)

Page Executive; München; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Page Executive in Munich seeks an experienced leader to drive a global SAP S/4HANA transformation. You will own the roadmap, align with the CIO and executive leadership, and coordinate across business units, IT teams, and partners to deliver a multi-country deployment.

The role demands a proven ability to navigate complex environments, make trade-offs, manage governance and risk, and ensure successful change management, data migration, and benefits realization across regions.

Qualifications

• Extensive transformation and program leadership experience in SAP S/4HANA.
• Proven delivery of complex multi-country deployments.
• Ability to lead in ambiguous environments with clarity.
• Skilled in stakeholder influence and strategic decision-making.
• Strong governance, risk management, and delivery assurance.
• Understanding of Finance, Supply Chain, and ERP integrations.
• Fluency in English and willingness to travel internationally.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA transformation roadmap, scope and milestones.
• Provide leadership across stakeholders, IT teams, partners and vendors.
• Drive integrated planning including data migration, testing, deployment and change readiness.
• Establish governance, change control, and risk management processes.
• Monitor post-go-live outcomes and benefits realization.
• Drive standardization and reduce unnecessary customizations.
• Ensure effective change management and training.
• Report transparently on program status and financials.

Skills

SAP S/4HANA transformation

Program leadership

Multi-country deployments

Stakeholder management

Executive presence

Change management

Business process integration

Risk governance

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Business Administration or Information Technology

Job description

• Be the leader of a global S/4 HANA transformation.
• Work directly with the CIO in an international organisation.

About Our Client

Our client is an industry leading company. The environment is highly international, while the work is complex and rewarding. The company is currently going through times of transformation, and is looking for a leader who has successfully implemented a complex S/4HANA transformation before.

Job Description

• Own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA transformation roadmap, scope and milestones.
• Provide overall leadership and direction across business stakeholders, IT teams, system integrators, SAP partners, and third-party vendors.
• Drive integrated planning covering SAP S/4HANA, data migration, integrations, testing, deployment, cutover, and business readiness activities.
• Make critical trade-off decisions.
• Lead and develop a high-performing program delivery organization.
• Ensure successful phased deployment across multiple regions while leveraging lessons learned and maximizing reuse of processes, governance, and implementation assets.
• Manage dependencies across ERP, supply chain, warehouse management, and other transformation initiatives.
• Establish robust governance, integrated planning, change control, and risk management processes.
• Drive resolution of program risks, issues, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Serve as the primary interface to the CIO and the wider leadership team.
• Provide transparent reporting on program status, financials, risks, deployment readiness, and benefits realization.
• Challenge unnecessary customization and promote standardization across the organisation.
• Ensure effective change management, training and communications.
• Drive accountability for implementation partner performance and delivery commitments.
• Monitor post-go-live outcomes.

The Successful Applicant

• Significant years of transformation and program leadership experiences, especially leading a large-scale SAP S/4HANA implementation.
• Proven track record delivering complex multi-country and multi-business-unit deployments.
• Inspirational leader capable of creating clarity in complex and ambiguous environments.
• Strong decision-maker with sound judgment and the confidence to make difficult trade-offs.
• Executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and facilitate strategic decision-making.
• Resilient change leader who drives accountability, collaboration, and adoption.
• Strong understanding of business process integration across Finance & Controlling, Order Management, Supply Chain, Warehouse Operations, Data & Analytics, Enterprise Integrations
• Expertise in governance, risk management, dependency management, planning, budgeting, and delivery assurance.
• Working knowledge of SOX, security, and compliance frameworks within ERP transformation environments.
• Experience managing business stakeholders, IT organizations, implementation partners, and executive leadership teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology or similar.
• Fluent English communication skills.
• Willingness to travel internationally.

What’s on Offer

• Competitive salary package
• Opportunity to work on cutting edge SAP transformation
• International work environment and business travels