SAP S/4HANA S2C procurerement business lead

SAP S/4HANA S2C Procurement Business Lead

• Act as the accountable Procurement Business Lead for the S2C stream and represent S2C interests in programme governance and cross-stream forums.
• Maintain the stream roadmap, milestones, resource needs, dependencies, decisions, risks, issues and mitigation actions.
• Obtain timely business decisions and escalate unresolved matters through the agreed governance structure.
• Coordinate business participation in design validation, data validation, testing, training, deployment and hypercare.
• Provide regular status reporting covering progress, milestones, dependencies, RAID items, decisions and recovery actions.
• Serve as the primary interface between the programme, implementation team, Procurement stakeholders, IT, process owners and change representatives.
• Coordinate input to UAT, including scenarios, scripts, test data, defect prioritisation, validation and sign-off.
• Oversee and report on the progress of data migration activities.
• Conduct business-readiness assessments covering processes, roles, access, data, training, communications, support and cutover.
• Deliver training and user onboarding for SAP S/4HANA.

Skills

• Mandatory: At least five years of experience leading business streams or workstreams in large international transformation programmes.
• Mandatory: Strong Source-to-Contract process knowledge and practical SAP S/4HANA implementation experience, with at least eight years in a leading position, including testing, migration and deployment.
• Mandatory: Demonstrated stakeholder management, governance, workshop facilitation, risk management and executive reporting skills.
• Preferred: Experience in Procurement Excellence, procurement transformation and matrix organisations.
• Preferred: Experience in functional consulting and driving Procurement Tool implementation projects from idea to delivery.
• Languages: Fluent English; German, Swedish or Dutch is an advantage.

Education

• Master’s degree and a recognised project or programme management certification, such as PRINCE2 or PMP.