Business Transformation Lead: Projects & BAU

The South African Breweries; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

The South African Breweries seeks a Business Transformation Lead to drive integration-led transformation for Aurora deployments across the Africa Zone. You will coordinate GA and BAU activities, align designs with global standards, and ensure readiness for SIT, UAT, and go-live.

With 8–12 years in ERP and enterprise integration, you will manage dependencies, interfaces, and infrastructure readiness while guiding teams across regions and vendors toward successful deployment and hyper-care support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• 8-12 years of experience in business transformation, ERP implementation programmes, SAP S/4HANA projects, enterprise integration delivery, technical coordination, infrastructure dependency tracking, integration readiness, multi-country deployments, cutover support, hyper care support, and BAU transition.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Africa integration-led transformation coordinator for Aurora project and BAU activities.
• Maintain integration delivery plans, readiness trackers, dependency logs, issue logs, risk logs, and escalation items.
• Coordinate integration progress across business, functional, technical, infrastructure, vendor, and global engineering teams.
• Escalate integration blockers and unresolved dependencies through programme governance.
• Work closely with Aurora Global Architects and Engineering Team to align local integration execution with global standards.
• Coordinate review of integration design inputs, interface dependencies, API requirements, service bus dependencies, and technical readiness gaps.
• Support standardization and reuse of approved integration patterns across Africa deployments.
• Track interface readiness across SAP S/4HANA, legacy systems, third-party platforms, and external authorities.
• Coordinate readiness for APIs, event-driven integrations, file interfaces, middleware dependencies, and external system onboarding.
• Ensure integration deliverables are ready for SIT, UAT, cutover, production deployment, hyper care, and BAU handover.
• Track infrastructure activities that may impact integration, testing, cutover, or go-live readiness.
• Coordinate visibility of printers, networks, connectivity, site readiness, local access, and related technical enablement items.
• Maintain ownership, due dates, blocker status, escalation path, and resolution progress for infrastructure dependencies.
• Support SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, and hyper care where integration, infrastructure, or BAU dependencies are involved.
• Coordinate integration defect and issue resolution across deployment teams.
• Support deployment readiness assessments and go-live decision-making.
• Ensure BAU support ownership, monitoring needs, operational handover items, and post-go-live stabilization actions are tracked.

Skills

SAP S/4HANA integration

Interface, API, middleware tracking

Infra dependency tracking

Azure DevOps

Reporting, dashboards

Stakeholder communications

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT/CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Azure DevOps

Excel

PowerPoint

Teams

Job description

The Business Transformation Lead: Projects & BAU is responsible for leading integration-led business transformation across Aurora deployments within the Africa Zone. The role places primary emphasis on ensuring that SAP S/4HANA, legacy systems, third-party applications, government platforms, infrastructure dependencies, and BAU support processes are connected, governed, tested, and ready for deployment.

The role coordinates integration design alignment, interface readiness, API and event-driven

hypercare support, and BAU transition activities.

The position works closely with the Aurora Global Architects and Engineering Team, Africa deployment teams, business stakeholders, implementation partners, infrastructure teams, and vendors to ensure integration risks, dependencies, and blockers are visible, owned, and resolved before go-live.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Integration Governance & Delivery Leadership

• Act as the Africa integration-led transformation coordinator for Aurora project and BAU activities.
• Maintain integration delivery plans, readiness trackers, dependency logs, issue logs, risk logs, and escalation items.
• Coordinate integration progress across business, functional, technical, infrastructure, vendor, and global engineering teams.
• Escalate integration blockers and unresolved dependencies through programme governance.

Architecture & Engineering Alignment

• Work closely with Aurora Global Architects and Engineering Team to align local integration execution with global standards.
• Coordinate review of integration design inputs, interface dependencies, API requirements, service bus dependencies, and technical readiness gaps.
• Support standardization and reuse of approved integration patterns across Africa deployments.

Interface, API & External System Readiness

• Track interface readiness across SAP S/4HANA, legacy systems, third-party platforms, and external authorities.
• Coordinate readiness for APIs, event-driven integrations, file interfaces, middleware dependencies, and external system onboarding.
• Ensure integration deliverables are ready for SIT, UAT, cutover, production deployment, hyper care, and BAU handover.
• Track infrastructure activities that may impact integration, testing, cutover, or go-live readiness.
• Coordinate visibility of printers, networks, connectivity, site readiness, local access, and related technical enablement items.
• Maintain ownership, due dates, blocker status, escalation path, and resolution progress for infrastructure dependencies.
• Support SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, and hyper care where integration, infrastructure, or BAU dependencies are involved.
• Coordinate integration defect and issue resolution across deployment teams.
• Support deployment readiness assessments and go-live decision-making.
• Ensure BAU support ownership, monitoring needs, operational handover items, and post-go-live stabilization actions are tracked.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Integration deliverables completed against approved plan.
• Interface, API, middleware, and external system readiness milestone achievement.
• Integration defects and critical dependency ageing tracked to closure.
• Integration cutover readiness milestone achievement.
• Integration hypercare issue resolution performance.
• BAU integration handover completion.
• Infrastructure activity readiness where it impacts integration, testing, cutover, or go-live.
• Printer, network, connectivity, and site-readiness blockers tracked to closure.
• Compliance with Aurora architecture, engineering, integration, and project governance standards

Technical Skills

• SAP S/4HANA integration readiness.
• Interface, API, middleware, and external system dependency tracking.
• Integration testing, cutover, hyper care, and BAU transition support.
• Azure DevOps or equivalent delivery tracking tools.
• Risk, issue, action, and dependency management.
• Infrastructure dependency tracking, including printers, networks, connectivity, and site readiness where integration is impacted.
• Reporting, dashboards, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and stakeholder communications.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• 8-12 years of experience in business transformation, ERP implementation programmes, SAP S/4HANA projects, enterprise integration delivery, technical coordination, infrastructure dependency tracking, integration readiness, multi-country deployments, cutover support, hyper care support, and BAU transition.
• Experience working within large-scale global transformation programmes is highly advantageous.

Additional information:

SAB is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in line with SAB employment equity plan and talent requirements. The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for short-listing.