SAP S4HANA Integration & Partner Systems Manager

Your responsibilities

Partner-system dependency management

• Own and maintain an end-to-end view of dependencies between LUCA and the relevant SAP and non-SAP partner systems covering business processes data interfaces environments testing cutover and operational readiness.
• Identify interdependencies early clarify owners and required decisions and translate them into traceable milestones deliverables assumptions risks and actions.
• Coordinate dependency planning across LUCA workstreams and partner-system roadmaps highlighting sequencing constraints and potential impacts on rollout readiness.
• Act as the central coordination point for partner-system integration topics ensuring that open points are assigned followed up escalated and resolved in a timely manner.

Functional and technical integration

• Understand end-to-end Finance processes and assess how changes in LUCA affect upstream and downstream partner systems business controls and operational activities.
• Facilitate alignment between functional requirements and technical integration design ensuring that business intent data needs processing logic and non-functional constraints are understood by all parties.
• Coordinate the design and implementation of integration scenarios between SAP S/4HANA and SAP or non-SAP systems including interfaces data flows middleware dependencies and migration-related connections.
• Challenge incomplete or inconsistent requirements and support teams in reaching practical sustainable and reusable integration solutions.
• Ensure integration decisions interface scope ownership dependencies and acceptance criteria are documented and aligned with the LUCA template and rollout approach.

Testing cutover and readiness

• Coordinate partner-system participation in integration testing end-to-end testing regression testing and defect resolution with clear entry criteria test data needs responsibilities and evidence.
• Ensure cross-system defects are analysed from both functional and technical perspectives and driven to sustainable resolution across organisational boundaries.
• Plan and coordinate partner-system activities within rehearsal and cutover plans including connectivity transports or releases data preparation interface activation validation and fallback dependencies.
• Assess partner-system readiness and provide transparent status risks decisions and recommendations to the relevant LUCA governance forums.
• Support hypercare and stabilisation by coordinating cross-system issue resolution monitoring critical dependencies and ensuring effective handover to support organisations.

Governance and stakeholder engagement

• Build effective working relationships with LUCA functional and technical teams business users partner-system owners internal IT providers and implementation partners.
• Prepare and facilitate integration and dependency forums focusing discussions on decisions delivery commitments risks unresolved topics and upcoming milestones.
• Maintain clear integration documentation dependency logs decision records status reporting and escalation paths using the programmes agreed tools and standards.
• Communicate complex functional and technical topics in a concise audience-appropriate manner and create shared understanding between business and technology stakeholders.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of LUCA integration governance reusable methods templates and lessons learned across rollout waves.

Qualifications :

Experience and knowledge

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Information Technology Computer Science Business Informatics Finance or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of experience in multinational SAP transformation or ERP implementation environments including participation in at least one full implementation cycle.
• Strong experience coordinating integrations and interdependencies across SAP and non-SAP systems in complex programme landscapes.
• Balanced functional and technical understanding: the ability to follow Finance process discussions while engaging credibly on interfaces data flows integration architecture middleware environments and testing.
• Good knowledge of SAP Finance processes and modules particularly subledger processes and their integration points with surrounding systems.
• Experience in cross-system testing cutover planning release coordination defect management and operational readiness.
• Proven ability to coordinate internal IT teams business stakeholders and implementation partners without relying solely on direct authority.
• Experience with integration and delivery documentation dependency tracking risk and issue management and structured status reporting.
• PMP SAP or comparable integration certification is advantageous but not required.

Ways of working

• Systems-thinking mindset with the ability to connect business-process impacts technology dependencies data flows and delivery timelines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability including the ability to structure ambiguity and drive cross-team topics to decisions and closure.
• Clear articulate and confident communication with both functional and technical stakeholders at different levels of seniority.
• Collaborative and diplomatic approach combined with the persistence to challenge constructively secure commitments and escalate when necessary.
• High level of ownership reliability and attention to detail in a fast-paced multicultural programme environment.
• Excellent written and spoken English and experience working in a European and multinational business environment.

Additional Information :

Measures of success

• Interdependencies between LUCA and partner systems are visible owned planned and resolved before they affect rollout milestones.
• Functional requirements and technical integration solutions remain aligned across the end-to-end process landscape.
• Partner systems are prepared and available for testing cutover go-live and stabilisation in accordance with agreed programme plans.
• Cross-system risks defects and decisions are managed transparently and escalated early with clear business and delivery impacts.
• Integration governance documentation and stakeholder communication enable reliable execution and informed decision-making.
• Reusable integration practices and lessons learned improve predictability across subsequent LUCA rollout waves.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time