Director - SAP S/4HANA UK/Hybrid
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About the role:
Gartner Consulting is looking for an experienced SAP Director to help develop and mature their SAP capability. The role is expected to deliver services across the end-to-end SAP strategy and implementation lifecycle, building practice capability to drive accelerated client value and impact across industries such as manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, utilities, pharma/life sciences, or oil & gas.
The successful candidate will enhance the ERP/SAP capability alongside a focused team of SAP practitioners who are seeking to empower our clients' capabilities across the EMEA region. Our objective is to deliver increased value to our clients beyond strategy development and towards transformational value realization.
Responsibilities include:
Proactively seeking opportunities to develop and mature the Enterprise Applications consulting service with a focus on SAP, including SAP strategy, assurance, programme management, and architecture definition.
Identifying enhanced capability growth opportunities.
Developing go-to-market plans and executing them.
Enhancing approaches/methodologies and tooling to accelerate client impact as well as leveraging Gartner research where suitable.
Providing key deliverable quality assurance.
What you'll need:
Consulting experience in practice and capability development.
Extensive client-facing consulting experience ideally from a tier 1 consultancy.
Excellent executive communication skills at CxO level.
Willingness to develop strategic analysis and presentations for clients with the support of concise capable teams using PowerPoint.
Good knowledge of competitor services offerings in SAP Strategic advisory, Implementation, and Assurance.
Experience leading or willingness to contribute to the development of an existing SAP capability.
Willingness to work with clients across EMEA (limited travel).
Eligible for UK Security Clearance.
In addition, you will ideally be experienced in both pre-sales and implementation work. However, if your skillset focuses on one more than the other, please do not hesitate to apply.
Valuable experience includes:
Presales: Strategic assessments and direction setting for customers, including current state assessment, strategic optioneering, and target state definition.
Business case development for S/4HANA.
Programme definition and planning/roadmapping.
Implementation costing/estimation.
Solution Integrator contracting/contract assessments.
Implementation:
Prior experience in a "techno-functional" role and currently working within SAP programme management or SAP Enterprise Architecture.
Experience of delivering multiple E2E implementations across Large Enterprise SAP projects from strategy to delivery.
Senior or leadership role in 2+ large migrations to S/4 HANA (ideally in industries such as manufacturing, retail, consumer goods, utilities, pharma/life sciences, or oil & gas).
Good understanding of the process and activities required, as well as knowledge of how to baseline the existing SAP/ERP solutions, and plan for a transition to an S/4 HANA-enabled target state.
Awareness of different ERP solutions and common approaches for strategy development/assessment.
Who are we?
At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: T), we guide the leaders who shape the world. Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.
What makes Gartner a great place to work? Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future.
Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.
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