SAP S/4HANA Programme Delivery Director

We are seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA Programme Delivery Director to provide senior leadership across programme mobilization, template rollout, delivery governance, testing, training, cutover, go-live and post-go-live stabilization.

This is a long-term contract opportunity for a senior SAP programme professional who has led complex ERP transformation programmes involving multiple countries, business functions and delivery partners.

Key responsibilities

• Lead integrated delivery of a multi-country SAP S/4HANA transformation.

• Establish programme governance, reporting, decision forums and escalation routes.

• Coordinate internal business teams, systems integrators and specialist suppliers.

• Manage dependencies across Finance, Procurement, Sales, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Data, Integration, Security, Testing, Change and Cutover.

• Govern the relationship between the global template and local business or statutory requirements.

• Own programme schedule, risks, issues, dependencies, budget and resource planning.

• Establish readiness criteria for design, testing, training, cutover, go-live and hypercare.

• Lead executive reporting and stakeholder communications.

• Manage partner performance, deliverables, quality and delivery risk.

• Identify resource gaps and coordinate additional programme and workstream capability.

• Lead mobilization, rollout and stabilization activity for future deployment waves.

• Ensure lessons learned are captured and applied to subsequent rollouts., Experience with SAP Ariba, Concur, SuccessFactors or connected SAP platforms.

Contract deliverables

• Validate the integrated programme plan and delivery model.

• Confirm governance, decision rights and escalation routes.

• Assess partner performance and programme capability.

• Identify critical delivery, resource and dependency risks.

• Establish rollout-readiness criteria.

• Review testing, training, cutover and hypercare plans.

• Lead executive programme reporting.

• Support mobilization and delivery of the next major rollout phase.

• Establish repeatable methods for future country deployments.

Proven senior leadership experience on major SAP S/4HANA programmes.

• Experience delivering multi-country ERP transformations or template rollouts.

• Strong understanding of SAP ECC-to-S/4HANA transformation.

• Experience coordinating systems integrators, specialist partners and internal stakeholders.

• Demonstrable experience with testing, cutover, go-live and hypercare.

• Strong programme governance, RAID management and executive-reporting capability.

• Experience working across Finance and multiple operational functions.

• Experience managing business readiness, change, training and adoption.

• Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills.

• Ability to work across countries, cultures and complex organizational structures.

• Excellent English communication skills.

Desirable experience

• Experience in manufacturing, consumer goods, food and beverage, retail, logistics or distribution.

• SAP Activate or equivalent delivery-framework experience.

• RISE with SAP or SAP S/4HANA Cloud experience.

• SAP BTP, integration, data migration or analytics experience.

• Experience with European localization, tax and statutory requirements.

• Additional European language capability.

• Experience with global templates and phased country deployments.