SAP Development Manager

Werfen; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 120.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Werfen in Barcelona is seeking an SAP Development Manager to lead the SAP SD development team, delivering scalable order-to-cash solutions and governance across SAP technologies. You will drive delivery discipline, mentor staff, and collaborate with global IT teams in a fast-paced, regulated health-tech environment.

The role requires deep SAP SD functionality, strong leadership, and a track record in standardisation and modernisation within SAP ecosystems.

Formación

• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years SAP experience with strong expertise in SAP SD / order-to-cash processes.
• Minimum 5 years leading or managing SAP development teams.
• Strong functional knowledge of SAP SD business processes including sales orders, pricing, billing, shipping, customer master, outputs, and integrations.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and manage the SAP SD development team, workload balancing, delivery planning, prioritisation, employee development, coaching, and performance management.
• Drive effective execution and accountability across the team while ensuring high‑quality support and project delivery.
• Partner with business stakeholders and IT business partners to deliver scalable and maintainable SAP SD solutions aligned with business priorities.
• Provide functional and technical leadership for the overall SAP SD function, including order‑to‑cash, customer service, pricing, billing, logistics integration, outputs/forms, workflows, and related interfaces.
• Support Werfen’s Clean Core strategy by promoting SAP standard functionality, upgrade‑friendly enhancements, and reduction of unnecessary custom developments; perform governance of daily team execution and direction.
• Review existing custom solutions and identify opportunities for simplification, standardisation, modernisation, or redesign.
• Establish and enforce SAP development standards, documentation expectations, support processes, and technical governance practices within the team.
• Actively join and contribute to the related design of any other enterprise application that integrates with SAP and has impact on the SD function, ensuring proper design and system stability.
• Support project delivery, operational support activities, issue resolution, and cross‑functional coordination with global IT teams.
• Contribute to organisational capability building through mentoring, knowledge sharing, process improvement, and team development initiatives.
• Provide backup leadership support across other SAP functional teams when required, particularly in coordination with Finance and cross‑functional initiatives.

Conocimientos

SAP SD

Leadership

Governance

S/4HANA

Educación

Master’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Herramientas

ABAP

Fiori

SAP BTP

APIs

Descripción del empleo

Werfen is a growing, family‑owned, innovative company founded in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain. We are a worldwide leader in specialized diagnostics in the areas of Hemostasis, Acute Care Diagnostics, Transfusion, Autoimmunity, and Transplant. Through our Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) business line, we research, develop, and manufacture customized assays and biomaterials. We operate directly in 30 countries, and in more than 100 territories through distributors. Our Headquarters and Technology Centers are located in the US and Europe, and our workforce is more than 7,000 strong.

The SAP Development Manager – Sales & Distribution is responsible for leading the Barcelona‑based SAP SD development team supporting Werfen’s commercial, customer service, logistics, and order‑to‑cash business processes. This role combines people leadership, SAP functional expertise, and technical solution governance. The manager will oversee day‑to‑day team operations, delivery execution, resource planning, technical direction, and capability development while supporting Werfen’s long‑term SAP modernization and Clean Core journey. The successful candidate must be both functionally strong in SAP SD processes and technically credible in SAP development and architecture. The role requires the ability to guide solution design decisions, challenge unnecessary customisations, and promote scalable, upgrade‑friendly SAP solutions aligned with SAP standard capabilities. This is a true management role with accountability for team performance, prioritisation, execution discipline, employee development, and operational effectiveness. The ideal candidate has experience working in structured SAP environments with strong governance and standardisation practices and has participated in initiatives focused on reducing customisation complexity and modernising SAP solutions.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead and manage the SAP SD development team, including workload balancing, delivery planning, prioritisation, employee development, coaching, and performance management.
• Drive effective execution and accountability across the team while ensuring high‑quality support and project delivery.
• Partner with business stakeholders and IT business partners to deliver scalable and maintainable SAP SD solutions aligned with business priorities.
• Provide functional and technical leadership for the overall SAP SD function, including order‑to‑cash, customer service, pricing, billing, logistics integration, outputs/forms, workflows, and related interfaces.
• Support Werfen’s Clean Core strategy by promoting SAP standard functionality, upgrade‑friendly enhancements, and reduction of unnecessary custom developments; perform governance of daily team execution and direction.
• Review existing custom solutions and identify opportunities for simplification, standardisation, modernisation, or redesign.
• Establish and enforce SAP development standards, documentation expectations, support processes, and technical governance practices within the team.
• Actively join and contribute to the related design of any other enterprise application that integrates with SAP and has impact on the SD function, ensuring proper design and system stability.
• Support project delivery, operational support activities, issue resolution, and cross‑functional coordination with global IT teams.
• Contribute to organisational capability building through mentoring, knowledge sharing, process improvement, and team development initiatives.
• Provide backup leadership support across other SAP functional teams when required, particularly in coordination with Finance and cross‑functional initiatives.

Networking / Key Relationships

Collaborate with multiple teams within IT including but not limited to SAP Basis, IT business partners, Security, Integration, Infrastructure, SQA to ensure stable and scalable enterprise solutions.

Strong stakeholder management skills and conflict management skills are necessary for this role.

Strong collaboration with different enterprise application teams to ensure successful delivery of projects, including Manhattan, Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc.

Capability to collaborate, contact and work with third‑party companies to define solutions, viable paths for different projects or critical issues.

Collaborate with business partners to manage stakeholders, project initiations, prioritisations, etc.

Strong team management skills and technical & functional leadership.

Strong capability to support and execute the initiatives and directions from senior leadership.

Minimum Knowledge & Experience required for the position

• Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of SAP experience with strong expertise in SAP SD / order‑to‑cash processes.
• Minimum 5 years leading or managing SAP development teams.
• Strong functional knowledge of SAP SD business processes including sales orders, pricing, billing, shipping, customer master, outputs, and integrations.
• Strong technical SAP knowledge including the most modernised SAP technology such as SAP cloud development, BTP, RAP, Fiori, etc. Classic development skills are basic, e.g., ABAP development, enhancements, interfaces, APIs, forms, workflows, and SAP architecture concepts.
• Experience working in SAP environments with structured governance and standardisation practices.
• Experience participating in SAP transformation, standardisation, or Clean Core initiatives (preferred).
• Experience evaluating and reducing legacy customisations (preferred).
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA environments (required).
• Experience in regulated manufacturing, medical device, healthcare, or similar industries (preferred).
• Experience collaborating with finance processes or supporting cross‑functional SAP initiatives (a plus).
• Previous consulting experience or experience in highly standardised SAP organisations (a plus).

Additional Leadership Expectations

This position is expected to function as a true people management and organisational leadership role. Success in this role requires:

• Building a high‑performing and accountable team culture.
• Effectively delegating responsibilities and developing team capabilities.
• Establishing clear ownership and execution expectations.
• Driving delivery discipline and operational maturity.
• Balancing leadership responsibilities with sufficient technical oversight.
• Supporting organisational change and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Promoting collaboration, transparency, and proactive communication.

The successful candidate should demonstrate the ability to lead teams through transformation initiatives while maintaining operational stability and strong employee engagement.

Skills & Capabilities

• Strong people management and leadership skills.
• Ability to drive accountability and execution discipline.
• Strong SAP SD functional expertise.
• Strong SAP technical and architecture understanding.
• Ability to balance business requirements with long‑term sustainability.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong prioritisation and decision‑making capabilities.
• Ability to challenge unnecessary complexity and customisation.
• Strong team development skills and coaching mindset.
• Strong collaboration and organisational influence skills.

Travel Requirements

Approximately 10–20% travel may be required to support business initiatives, workshops, project deployments, and collaborations.