SAP Data & Analytics Associate Director

Overview

As an SAP Data Associate Director, you lead data-led transformation for major clients, shaping strategies and roadmaps for SAP data across S/4HANA and beyond. You’ll build trusted relationships with C-suite and mobilise multi-disciplinary teams to deliver sustainable outcomes. The role combines market-facing leadership, solution ownership, and commercial management with broad SAP data expertise. You will contribute to growth through propositions, thought leadership and delivery excellence.

Pay / Benefits

• 30 days’ vacation
• private medical insurance
• 3 extra days leave for charitable work
• flexibility and mobility to meet client needs

Responsibilities

• Advise senior stakeholders on enterprise data strategy, SAP data roadmaps, and business cases for data-enabled transformation
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across data governance, architecture, MDM, data quality, migration, integration and analytics during the SAP transformation lifecycle
• Own the delivery of complex SAP data programmes, balancing scope, quality, commercials, risk and client outcomes
• Grow SAP Data capability via proposition development, pre-sales, alliances, thought leadership, and talent development
• Shape and deliver data-led transformation for major clients, building relationships with senior leaders and mobilising teams
• Define pragmatic data strategies, target operating models and data architectures, and map them to implementation roadmaps
• Demonstrate credibility with senior stakeholders and translate data/tech topics into clear business value
• Develop high-performing teams, coach practitioners, and contribute to practice growth and capability development

Key requirements

• Significant experience leading SAP data strategy and delivery in S/4HANA or related enterprise transformations
• Broad knowledge of SAP data capabilities: MDG, S/4HANA master and transactional data, Data Services, Migration Cockpit, Information Steward, Datasphere, Analytics Cloud, integration patterns
• Ability to define enterprise data strategies, governance frameworks, ownership/stewardship models, TO models, architectures and roadmaps
• Strong understanding of MDM, data quality, data migration, data integration, metadata, reporting and analytics
• Experience leading large, distributed delivery teams (onshore/nearshore/offshore, client and third-party resources)
• Strong commercial acumen: shaping propositions, bids/RFPs, estimating delivery, negotiating scope, managing financials, risk and quality
• Proven credibility with senior stakeholders and ability to translate complex topics into business outcomes
• Track record of developing high-performing teams, coaching practitioners and contributing to capability development

• Credibility with senior stakeholders
• Strategic thinking and business-focused communication
• Leadership and people development
• SAP MDG
• S/4HANA master and transactional data
• SAP Data Services

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