Senior Manager, SAP Projects & Support

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Responsibilities:

• Drive SAP S/4HANA initiatives in China from business requirements and solution design through implementation, go-live and stabilization, while taking long-term ownership of the local SAP landscape and its continuous development in alignment with strategic and operational objectives.
• Build and lead the local SAP organization in Shunde, establishing a sustainable operating and support model in alignment with the Global CPIM, ensuring reliable, high-quality SAP support and continuously developing team capabilities and technical proficiency.
• Own and apply an end-to-end business process and SAP solution architecture perspective to drive process optimization, system integration and solution delivery across Finance, Sales, Logistics and Manufacturing, while actively contributing hands-on SAP expertise to key solution decisions.
• Collaborate closely with the Global CPIM organization and coordinate local and global business and IT teams, external service providers, suppliers and implementation partners. Manage provider performance, commercial commitments and project delivery, including progress, budgets, risks and critical issues, to ensure reliable, high-quality and cost-effective SAP services and solutions.
• Ensure compliance with SAP standards, security requirements and best practices, establish appropriate SAP governance and documentation, and support the continuous improvement and long-term lifecycle management of the local SAP landscape.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, with at least eight years of experience in SAP implementation, transformation, application management or support.
• Extensive and proven SAP S/4HANA implementation and business transformation experience, together with broad end-to-end SAP process and solution architecture knowledge and deep hands-on functional expertise in at least two major SAP functional areas, such as Finance, Sales, Logistics or Manufacturing.
• Demonstrated experience leading SAP implementations, projects, workstreams or teams, with the ability to manage scope, schedules, budgets and risks and drive delivery from requirements analysis and solution design through go-live and stabilization.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management capabilities, with the ability to work effectively across business, IT and external implementation partners and to build and develop a local SAP organization. Excellent problem-solving, presentation and facilitation skills and fluent English are required.
• Experience working in, or delivering SAP programs for, an international manufacturing company is highly preferred. Familiarity with Manufacturing Execution Systems, SAP Business Warehouse, data analysis or process mapping is an advantage.

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