Leadership Role - SAP S4/HANA - CPG/Retail Firm

Job Title: Leadership Roles, SAP S4/HANA

Job Location: Bangalore and Gurgaon, India

Client: Global MNC in the CPG / Retail Industry

Job Purpose :

This is an opportunity to be a part of a large transformation program over 4-5 years. This will replace core ERP systems that have been in use over the last 15+ years leveraging new technologies in particular SAP's S4 HANA platform and a number of surround systems.

Key Accountabilities of this Role :

Key accountability of this role is described below across the preparation phase as part of the Advance Team and thereafter as a core team member of a larger Enterprise-wide Project Team responsible for Design/Build and eventually implementation & change management.

In the initial stage of the program, this role will be responsible for :

- Interrogating current systems

- Bring in strong product perspective on the art of the possible on processes

- Link up externally to identify Best & Next practices

- Design the processes of the future and spell out quantified and strategic benefits

- Estimate Efforts, Resources & Costs of this program

- Call out potential risks and change management challenges and identify mitigation steps

- Help identify Technology and Process partners to support the journey

- Help flesh out the structure of the larger teams to follow in the detailed design & build stage of the program

As the program moves to the blueprinting, design & build stage, this role along with other peer team members will be responsible :

- Lead detailed blueprint workshops to validate and flesh out work done in the preparation phase

- Driving to standard design to make the future system & process more resilient and efficient

- Manage the build/configuration with technology partners (System Integrators)

- Test the system

In the implementation phase, this role along with other peer members will be responsible for:

- The efficient landing of the system across Business Units

- Training of users

- Manage cutover

- Change management

- Along with business operating management, secure the benefits

These roles along with other core team members is an important thought leadership to design the enterprise systems of the future.

Key Qualifications and Experiences :

- Must have handled at least one large implementation of SAP S4/HANA

- Experience of at least 10 years in one or a combination of IT professional in a reputed end user with a large mission-critical SAP implementation; or a Global Tier 1 IT Consulting / Solutions company with direct responsibility