Senior SAP MM Consultant – SAP S/4HANA Governance

The successful candidate will act as the authoritative representative and proxy for the client, taking full ownership of the SAP S/4HANA migration. This is a highly senior, strategic role where you will operate strictly "as the client," actively directing, guiding, and steering external implementation partners rather than merely coordinating them.

You will ensure that the system integrators deliver exactly to the business requirements, quality standards, and timelines. This role requires a powerful combination of deep SAP Materials Management (MM) architectural expertise, authoritative project leadership, and the gravitas to challenge vendors, drive technical decisions, and align executive stakeholders across multiple countries.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Migration Leadership: Take full ownership of the SAP S/4HANA migration from the client’s perspective, driving the project roadmap and ensuring the implementation strategy aligns strictly with overarching business goals.

• Vendor Direction & Governance: Actively guide, steer, and challenge external implementation partners and System Integrators (SIs). Hold vendors fully accountable for their deliverables, timelines, and solution quality.

• Business Requirements Ownership: Act as the ultimate bridge between the business and the SIs. Gather, validate, and dictate business requirements, ensuring the vendors' proposed SAP solutions do not deviate from the client’s best interests.

• SAP MM Functional Authority: Serve as the final escalation and approval point for SAP MM functional designs, solution configurations, and implementation deliverables. Validate that the vendor's architectural choices are robust and scalable.

• Executive Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary, high-level point of contact for executive business stakeholders, IT leadership, and the management teams of the implementation partners.

• Risk & Issue Mitigation: Proactively anticipate project bottlenecks, manage complex dependencies, and enforce aggressive action plans when vendors fall behind schedule.

• Cross-Country Alignment: Drive the harmonization of business processes and SAP solutions across international landscapes, firmly managing local pushback while accommodating critical local legal/fiscal requirements.

• Quality Assurance & Deployment Governance: Dictate the quality standards for functional testing, integration testing, and defect resolution. Authorize cutover activities and go-live readiness on behalf of the client.

• Change & Scope Management: Strictly control project scope, evaluating and authorizing any changes to business requirements or solution design to prevent vendor scope creep.