Associate Director - SAP Development Lead

Overview:

1. Drive the end to end integration and connectivity of applications across the S/4 platform and external legacy applications.

2. Lead Technical Delivery for S4 migration project for international SAP markets.

3. Coordinate the PGT technical project activities for the entire project lifecycle from pursuit/estimation to deployment/Hypercare and liaise with the other project streams to ensure technical readiness at each stage of the project.

4. Support System Management deployment, responsible for coordinating amongst members of different teams to address and resolve any issues or problems, escalating to vendors, partners and additional support required.

5. Partner with other IT Orgs and cloud partners/vendors to plan and deliver comprehensive technical support for the project, understanding and predicting the needs of project execution.

Responsibilities:

• Leads technical delivery (tech design, build, test support, TCO, systems mgmt.) for S4 migration projects for international markets
  
• Manages and/or provides approval for project stage gate and solution design reviews
  
• Provides guidance and expertise to the development teams on design and development performance and architecture decisions
  
• Leads team’s work with business and IT partners to deliver within project timelines and budget
  
• Works with customers and IT partners globally to identify and resolve application issues, escalating as required
  
• Partner closely with external vendors, including on-shore and offshore resources.
  
• Provides Technical cut-over, Go-Live and Hypercare support
  
• Governance and controls to ensure adherence to technology standards, best practices, release management, change management, and other related processes and procedures, SLA and controls compliance
  
• Assist in providing mentoring and training to development team members; helping to integrate them into the department (effective onboarding process
  
• Ensures effective resource utilization across the workgroup
  
• Stays up-to-date with technology and industry trends by proactively participating in training, self-study, conferences, webcasts, user group participation, reading or other relevant means
  
• Helps ensure compliance with global template standards within the S/4HANA PGT space.
  
• Supports the global governance process for PGT (S4 migration) function, provides official sign-off on SAP customizations
  
• Partners with global Enterprise Architecture team to establish and help govern architecture standards.
  
• Partner with multiple IT teams, to obtain consensus and approvals for solution decisions, and ensure alignment to global standards.
  
• Coordinates the contract and vendor management related activities complying with global guidelines.
  
• Accountable for SAP landscape requirements to support and align with DSO projects, including third party applications.
  
• Lead a team of employee and contract resources to meet Project delivery needs.
  
• Set priorities for the team to ensure task completion.
  
• Coordinate work activities with other IT services and business teams.
  
• Track project development quality KPIs and overall health of the project.
  
• Hold team accountable for milestone deliverables.
  

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 15 years of related IT work experience, including significant experience managing teams (5+ years)
  
• Experience in CPG industry preferred
  
• Strong IT background, robust command of key IT processes (project/program management, release management, and vendor relationship management).
  
• 10+ years of SAP experience with Application Development, System Admin or Release Management; S/4 & HANA experience a plus
  
• Effective communication and facilitation, including preparing, organizing and delivering presentations and taking a leading role in workshops, meetings and discussions.
  
• Proficient in written & spoken English is a MUST.
  
• Knowledge and experience in following tools, disciplines and processes are preferred: SAP Solution Manager, SAP ChaRM, ITIL tools & processes, HP Service Manager, Azure DevOps, quality management tools, CPG industry experience, project implementation and production support experience
  
• Strong understanding of Agile, SAFe and PepsiCo’s Agile Methodology
  
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
  
• must have exposure to Smart Shift