Overview
This role sits within the IT leadership team, overseeing enterprise applications and core business systems while supporting ongoing ERP transformation and application governance. The focus is on ensuring alignment across platforms, integrations, and business processes spanning finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and commercial functions.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee enterprise application landscape, including ERP and integrated systems, ensuring alignment across processes, data flows, and business needs
- Support large-scale ERP initiatives (e.g., multi-market rollouts), covering planning, delivery, and post-go-live stabilisation
- Operate within programme governance structures across scope, timeline, budget, risks, dependencies, RAID, and change control
- Manage system integrators and vendors against SLAs, milestones, and delivery expectations
- Maintain fit-to-standard principles with controlled customisation where required
- Oversee applications across ERP, manufacturing/shopfloor systems, analytics, planning tools, banking interfaces, and third-party platforms
- Maintain application lifecycle visibility (ownership, L1/L2/L3 support, licensing, roadmap) and support new system integrations
- Work across SAP environments (S/4HANA or ECC), including DEV / QAS / PRD landscapes, transport, and release cycles
- Support platform activities such as release planning, upgrades, and coordination with MSPs
- Maintain understanding of SAP architecture and integrations across data platforms, manufacturing systems, and external interfaces
- Support governance and compliance frameworks, including access control, SoD, role design, and provisioning
- Exposure to SAP GRC (Access Control, Firefighter, Process Control, Risk Management)
- Ensure audit readiness, data protection, and regulatory compliance
- Partner with business stakeholders across FI/CO, MM, SD, and PP domains to align systems with business processes
- Support operating model design, internal capability build, and vendor engagement structures
Experience & Technical Capabilities
- Experience in enterprise IT, ERP, or application management, with exposure to large-scale transformation programmes
- Strong SAP knowledge (S/4HANA or ECC) across FI/CO, MM, SD, and PP
- Working knowledge of SAP GRC (Access Control, SoD, role design, Firefighter)
- Understanding of SAP architecture (DEV / QAS / PRD), transport, and release management
- Experience with system integrations (data platforms, manufacturing/shopfloor, banking, third-party systems)
- Exposure to programme governance (RAID, change control, SI/vendor management, executive reporting)
- Familiarity with complex, multi-application environments across ERP, analytics, and operational systems
