Director Deployment

Fresenius Kabi USA; United States; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company contributions

Paid vacation

Holiday and personal days

Health benefits

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Fresenius Kabi USA seeks a Director to lead the enterprise-wide deployment of the ELEVATE Global Template as part of the S/4HANA implementation under FutureFresenius. You will align global standards with local regulatory and operational needs, directing planning, testing, cutover, and transition to sustainment across regions.

You will partner with Global Deployment Teams, IT, Validation, Change Management and external partners to ensure timely adoption, governance, and measurable outcomes while

Qualifications

• 12+ years of ERP delivery, deployment or transformation leadership in complex environments.
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Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for end-to-end deployment of SAP S/4HANA and ELEVATE solutions across countries and waves.
• Direct translation of Global Template into scalable deployment plans balancing global standardisation with local requirements.
• Establish deployment governance frameworks with decision structures, readiness, escalation, quality controls, and monitoring.
• Drive readiness and adoption by aligning leaders, mobilising resources, and ensuring training and risk mitigation.
• Provide cross-functional leadership across Local Process Owners, IT, Validation, Data Migration, Testing, and Change Management.
• Oversee data migration, integrations, security models, testing cycles, UAT, cutover, and go-live readiness.
• Lead hyper-care and transition to sustainment, with issue resolution and business continuity.

Skills

ERP deployment

SAP S/4HANA

Strategic leadership

Regulatory compliance

Program governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree (business/IT)

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

SAP Activate

Data migration

Validation

Job description

The Director, Country Deployment Lead USA, is responsible for leading the enterprise-wide deployment of Fresenius Kabi’s ELEVATE Global Template as part of the company’s strategic business transformation and SAP S/4HANA implementation under the #FutureFresenius initiative in the US. This role provides global leadership and governance for the successful rollout of standardized business processes, systems, and operating models across regions, countries, sites, and business units.

The Director serves as the primary bridge between global program leadership and country execution teams, ensuring alignment with transformation objectives while addressing local business, regulatory, validation, and operational requirements. This position drives deployment strategy, oversees cross-functional readiness activities, and directs business and IT resources through planning, testing, cutover, go-live, hyper care and transition to sustained operations.

Working in close partnership with senior business leaders, Global Deployment Teams, Global Process Owners, IT, Validation, Change Management, and external implementation partners, the Director ensures consistent adoption of global standards, mitigates deployment risks, accelerates value realization and delivers measurable business outcomes across the enterprise. This role is accountable for deployment excellence, stakeholder engagement, organizational readiness and the successful execution of one of Fresenius Kabi’s most critical transformation initiatives.

While this position may be worked remotely, priority will be given to Chicago area candidates.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship either now or in the future.

Salary Range: $170,000-190,000

Position is eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan with a target of 16% of the base salary.

Position is eligible to participate in our medium-term incentive plan.

Final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to experience level, education, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Our benefits and programs are comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted to ensure our colleagues live healthy lives and have support when it matters most. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with company contributions, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, employee assistance program and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the end-to-end deployment of SAP S/4HANA and ELEVATE program solutions across assigned countries, business units, and deployment waves, ensuring successful execution from planning and localisation through go-live, stabilisation, and transition to support organisations.
• Direct the translation of the approved Global Template into scalable deployment strategies and execution plans, balancing global standardisation objectives with local business, regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements while maintaining governance over deviations and design integrity.
• Establish and lead deployment governance frameworks, including decision-making structures, accountability models, readiness assessments, escalation pathways, quality controls, and performance monitoring to ensure consistent execution across global deployments.
• Drive organisational readiness and adoption strategies by aligning business leaders, mobilising regional, country and local resources, overseeing deployment planning activities, and ensuring effective training, communication, risk mitigation, and contingency planning.
• Provide cross-functional leadership across Local Process Owners, IT, Validation, Data Migration, Testing, Integration, Change Management to ensure alignment, execution excellence, and achievement of deployment milestones and quality standards.
• Oversee deployment quality and readiness, ensuring successful execution of data migration, integrations, security and authorisation models, testing cycles, user acceptance testing, cutover preparations, and go-live readiness reviews in accordance with SAP S/4HANA standards and programme governance requirements.
• Lead enterprise cutover planning and execution activities, ensuring clear accountability, effective issue resolution, disciplined command centre operations and informed go/no-go recommendations to senior programme and business leadership.
• Provide executive leadership during hyper-care and stabilisation phases, ensuring rapid issue resolution, business continuity, knowledge transfer, operational readiness and successful transition to long-term support and sustainment organisations.
• Proactively identify, assess and manage deployment risks, issues, dependencies and scope impacts, providing clear and concise reporting, recommendations and escalation pathways to programme leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement of deployment methodologies, governance processes, tools, templates and best practices by capturing lessons learned and incorporating insights across successive deployment waves.
• Champion ELEVATE programme communications, engagement initiatives and culture-building activities in partnership with Change Management to strengthen stakeholder alignment and transformation adoption.
• Serve as a mentor and adviser to country and local deployment resources, building organisational capability and promoting best practices in large-scale ERP transformation and deployment management.
• Ensure deployment activities meet applicable audit, validation, compliance and regulatory requirements by maintaining appropriate documentation, controls and evidence supporting programme governance and quality standards.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, business informatics, IT management, industrial engineering or comparable field required; master’s degree preferred.
• 12+ years of experience in ERP delivery, deployment management or transformation leadership within complex enterprise environments; 12+ years preferred for senior global scope.
• Proven experience with SAP S/4HANA or large SAP ERP rollouts, ideally in multi-country, multi-site or multi-business environments.
• Strong understanding of SAP landscape components, core S/4HANA processes/modules, data migration, testing, integrations, extensions, authorisations and cutover concepts.
• Experience in Pharma/Life Science or another regulated/validated industry; familiarity with GxP, validation, quality gates and audit expectations is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead business readiness, UAT, cutover, go-live, hypercare and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Experience with SAP Activate and agile/hybrid delivery models is preferred.
• PMP, PRINCE2, SAP certification or equivalent programme/deployment certification advantageous.
• Excellent written and verbal English; German or other regional languages are a plus. Willingness to travel according to rollout needs, including critical cutover and go-live phases.
• International travel 35% and at times could be 1-2 months in a specific country.