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# SAP S/4HANA Programme Delivery Director

- **Company:** Darwin Recruitment
- **Location:** AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Data Migration, RAID, SAP ERP, SuccessFactors, SAP (Applications), RISE with SAP, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.nl/details/5905434424

## About the Role

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.

## Description

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.