About the role
The Lead SAP Consultant is responsible for leading the SAP consulting team and ensuring high-quality delivery across SAP implementation, transformation, and enhancement projects. The role combines strong hands-on SAP consulting expertise with team leadership, project delivery responsibility, and client advisory.
The position requires solid knowledge of SAP logistics processes and modules, such as MM, SD, PP, WM/EWM, with the ability to lead end-to-end SAP solutions and guide the team in delivering business-focused outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Performance
* Lead, mentor, and support a team of SAP consultants. * Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support professional development. * Monitor team performance, workload, and delivery quality. * Support recruitment, onboarding, and development of SAP consultants. * Act as the first escalation point for team and delivery-related topics.
SAP Consulting & Delivery
* Act as a senior SAP functional expert with strong knowledge of SAP logistics modules and processes. * Lead SAP workstreams and ensure successful delivery of scope, timeline, quality, and budget. * Review and guide solution designs, functional deliverables, and SAP best-practice adoption. * Support requirements analysis, process design, testing, go-live, and issue resolution. * Ensure effective integration across SAP logistics and related functional areas. * Identify and manage delivery risks, issues, and dependencies.
Capacity & Project Planning
* Plan team capacity, workload, and resource allocation across SAP projects. * Support project estimations, staffing, and forecasting. * Review and validate effort and man-day estimations. * Ensure appropriate allocation of consultants according to skills and project requirements.
Client & Stakeholder Management
* Act as a senior advisor to clients and key stakeholders. * Lead workshops and support business and solution discussions. * Communicate project status, risks, and escalations to management and clients. * Build strong relationships with business and technical stakeholders.
Quality & Methodology
* Ensure high delivery and consulting quality across the team. * Promote SAP best practices and ensure compliance with SAP Activate or relevant project methodologies. * Support continuous improvement of SAP delivery processes and ways of working.
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Required Experience
* Several years of experience as an SAP Consultant, including experience in a senior or lead role. * Strong knowledge of SAP logistics modules, ideally with expertise in one or more of MM, SD, PP, WM/EWM. * Proven experience leading SAP teams and/or workstreams. * Experience in SAP implementation, rollout, transformation, or enhancement projects. * Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills. * Experience with SAP S/4HANA is an advantage. * Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills. * Fluent English; additional languages are an advantage.