Platform Manager, EDT Commercial ERP, SAP (REMOTE)

Stryker; Kalamazoo (MI); Remote; USD 118,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Stryker is seeking an SAP Platform Manager to lead the strategy, lifecycle, and continuous improvement of the SAP technical platform. You will manage the platform roadmap, standards, upgrades, and vendor engagements to support enterprise capabilities and digital transformation.

This is a hybrid role requiring at least one in-office day per week and close collaboration with business process owners, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, and MSPs to ensure reliable, scalable SAP services aligned

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• 8+ years of information technology experience.
• 7+ years of SAP technical platform, SAP Basis, or SAP infrastructure experience.
• Experience supporting at least two SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC implementations, migrations, upgrades, or major technical release events.
• 3+ years of experience managing SAP environments supporting more than 1,000 users.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate the SAP technical platform roadmap, standards, upgrade paths, and technology priorities.
• Lead planning and oversight for SAP initiatives, upgrades, migrations, patches, and decommissioning.
• Align SAP platform capabilities with business, security, compliance, and technology requirements.
• Evaluate emerging SAP technologies and opportunities for modernization and automation.
• Oversee vendor, MSP, and consultant engagements and performance.
• Provide input for project landscapes, business cases, and investments.
• Drive governance, documentation, and continuous improvement across platform engineering and release planning.
• Communicate platform strategy and decisions to IT leadership and stakeholders.
• Coach and develop team members and partner resources.

Skills

SAP Basis

Platform management

Vendor management

Architecture governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP ECC

Job description

What you will do:

As our SAP Platform Manager, you are responsible for leading the strategy, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement of Stryker's SAP technical platform. You will manage the SAP platform roadmap, standards, upgrade strategy, vendor engagement, and technical governance needed to support enterprise business capabilities and digital transformation initiatives. Additionally, you will partner with business process owners, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, SAP functional teams, managed service providers, and external vendors to ensure SAP platform services are reliable, scalable, secure, and aligned with business priorities.

This is a hybrid role and as such we define hybrid as the ability to go into the office at least one day per week.

• Develop, maintain, and communicate the SAP technical platform roadmap, including standards, lifecycle planning, upgrade paths, architecture principles, and technology adoption priorities.

• Lead planning and execution oversight for SAP technical initiatives, integrations, upgrades, migrations, patching, and system decommissioning.

• Partner with infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, application, and business teams to align SAP platform capabilities with business, security, compliance, and technology requirements.

• Evaluate emerging SAP technologies and recommend adoption, modernization, automation, and simplification opportunities that improve platform effectiveness and operational efficiency.

• Lead vendor, managed service provider, and consulting partner engagement, including scope definition, delivery oversight, issue escalation, performance management, and alignment to Stryker delivery expectations.

• Provide cost, sizing, effort estimation, and technical input for project landscapes, business cases, roadmap planning, and investment decisions.

• Drive process standardization, governance, documentation, and continuous improvement across platform engineering, environment management, and release planning.

• Communicate platform strategy, risks, dependencies, decisions, and recommendations to IT leadership, business stakeholders, project teams, and external partners.

• Lead, coach, and develop team members or partner resources, setting clear expectations, and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What you need:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required.

• 8+ years of information technology experience.

• 7+ years of SAP technical platform, SAP Basis, or SAP infrastructure experience.

• Prior experience supporting at least two SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC implementations, migrations, upgrades, or major technical release events.

• 3+ years of experience managing SAP environments supporting more than 1,000 users.

Preferred:

• Master's degree in a related field preferred.

• 5+ years of experience leading SAP Basis administration or SAP platform operations in a production support model.

• SAP technology certification, SAP S/4HANA certification, SAP Business Technology Platform certification, or cloud certification preferred.

• SAP Certified Technology Associate, SAP Certified Technology Professional, SAP S/4HANA certification, or equivalent SAP technical certification.

• Experience with SAP high availability, disaster recovery architecture, and recovery testing.

• Experience with SAP system sizing, landscape estimation, and technical capacity planning.

• Knowledge of data center operations, cloud infrastructure, network concepts, and enterprise monitoring practices.

• Experience supporting regulated, global, or highly complex enterprise environments.

• Experience presenting status, risks, decisions, and recommendations to director-level stakeholders or above.

• Demonstrated experience in at least five of the following areas: SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BW, SAP PI/PO, SAP Basis administration, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Landscape Management, SAP high availability architecture, SAP integration technologies, SAP upgrades, SAP migrations, SAP Cloud ALM, or RISE with SAP.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN: $118,000 - $196,700 USD Annual
• US5: $123,900 - $206,500 USD Annual
• US10: $129,800 - $216,400 USD Annual
• US15: $135,700 - $226,200 USD Annual
• US20: $141,600 - $236,000 USD Annual
• US30: $153,400 - $255,700 USD Annual

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance.

Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.