S2P Functional Process Lead

RS UK & Ireland; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

RS is seeking a S2P Functional Process Lead to drive the global SAP S/4HANA template design and adoption. You will partner with GPO, regional teams, and GSBS to ensure end-to-end processes are aligned, compliant, and value-driven across the EMEA and global landscape.

You will coordinate design workshops, challenge localisations, and guide change activities while maintaining consistency with the global template and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience on global ERP/SAP or S/4HANA transformation programmes.
• Experience with SAP Activate methodology.
• Proven track record as a process owner, SME, or regional lead.
• Understanding of organisational change and business readiness.
• Exposure to harmonisation or standardisation programmes.
• Operational experience in designing and delivering change.
• Ability to work in changing environments and handle ambiguity.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience working in complex, multi-country environments.
• Strong knowledge of statutory, regulatory, and local market requirements.
• Capacity to represent the region in senior-level forums.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring documentation fully reflects requirements and design decisions for the end-to-end solution.
• Engage and coordinate SME input from the regions and process areas to ensure effective design workshops.
• Lead the work to challenge and investigate potential customisations (RICEFW) with local market/regulatory considerations.
• Act as a conduit back into the regions and facilitate communications and change activities.
• Champion requirements and global template design through build and test processes with tech and P&O teams.
• Support the GPO to ensure final global template design is comprehensive and aligned with processes.
• Challenge the business on current ways of working to leverage the ERP system.
• Review process design decisions and resolve scope questions with GPO sign-off.
• Identify steps to deliver process design and key processes.
• Work with GPO to ensure policies and controls mitigate risk.
• Develop networks with Local Business Process Owners.
• Support OCM function to identify change issues and ensure successful transition.

Skills

ERP Transformation

SAP Activate

Process Owner

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Multi-country

Regulatory Knowledge

English Fluent

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Location: Hybrid, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from any of our UK Offices (Manchester, Corby or London Kings Cross)

Contract Type: Permanent

Come and join our team of over 9000 amazing RS People worldwide, on our exciting journey to transform our global ERP system and processes!

The Opportunity

The S2P Functional Process Lead will work in partnership with the relevant functional GPO and will contribute to the seamless implementation of our new global ERP system and its ongoing contribution to business performance and transformation.

They will also be required to understand the integration between their own process areas and other connected dependencies and functional areas. The Functional Process Lead will require excellent communication skills to ensure they remain completely ‘joined up’ with the GPO regarding the approach to and deliverables of the global processes in their functional area ensuring consistency and that all aspects of the E2E processes are covered.

You will play a critical role in ensuring that the SAP S/4HANA global template is correctly designed, understood, adopted and consistently applied across the EMEA region and broader global landscape.

The role is directly accountable to the Source to Pay Global Process Owner but will also work closely with the Regional Product & Supplier Management team and Global Shared Business Services (GSBS), alongside other functions.

What You Will Be Doing

• Ensuring documentation fully reflects requirements and design decisions for the end to- end solution.
• Engage and co-ordinate SME input from the different regions and process areas to ensure that the design workshops are effective.
• Lead the work to challenge and investigate potential customisations (RICEFW) ensuring that the rationale & validity of local market/regulatory/fiscal requirements are understood, agreed and properly documented.
• Act as a conduit back into the regions and work with the change network and local process owners to facilitate communications and business change activities.
• Champion requirements and global template design through the build and test process – working with technology and broader P&OE teams to protect the integrity of the design.
• Support the GPO to ensure that the final global template design is comprehensive, aligned to functional & regional processes and will drive the business value we have identified
• Challenge the business on the status quo and existing ways of working within their E2E processes to ensure we are truly leveraging the potential of the system to deliver better more simplified processes.
• Review process design decisions and address implementation issues and questions about project scope, ensuring sign off by the GPO as required.
• Identify the steps and activities required to deliver the process design ensuring an understanding of the key processes.
• Working with the GPO, ensure effective policies and controls are in place to mitigate risk.
• Leverage working relationships within the programme and across business functions.
• Develop communication network with Local Business Process Owners.
• Support the OCM (organisational change management) function to identify key change issues or ‘pain points’ that we can proactively manage to ensure a smooth transition and buy-in to the programme

Skills & experience that we are looking for:

• Experience working on global ERP/SAP or S/4HANA transformation programmes.
• Experience with SAP Activate methodology.
• Previous role as a process owner, SME, or regional lead.
• Understanding of organisational change and business readiness.
• Exposure to harmonisation or standardisation programmes.
• Operational experience in designing & delivering change / continuous business process improvements.
• Ability to work in a changing environment & good at dealing with ambiguity.
• Effective relationship building skills and proven stakeholder management skills.
• Effective presentation, facilitation, and communication skills
• Building good relationships with Local Process Owners
• Ability to lead fit gap analysis and interpret design impacts.
• Experience working in complex, multi country environments.
• Strong understanding of statutory, regulatory, and local market requirements.
• Capacity to represent the region in senior-level forums.
• Fluent in English

We Are RS

At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world.

As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.

What sets us apart is our people. More than 9,000 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.