IT SAP Lead (m/​f/​d)

As SAP Lead you will be responsible to manage three SAP Teams, located in different locations, working for different companies within TKE. Your main responsibilities include:

• Representative of the IT SAP department towards business
• Align, communicate and develop the SAP strategy within the organization
• Provide leadership and direction to the SAP teams, ensuring a cohesive and integrated approach to SAP solutions
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture, encouraging continuous learning and professional development within the team
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business leaders, ensuring alignment between SAP initiatives and overall business strategy
• Preparation of rollout roadmaps, alignment with business stakeholders and execution of the projects together with business project teams
• Define and follow-up the budget for the area under your responsibility
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, finance, operations, and other business units, engage with key stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into integrated SAP solutions
• Management of external vendors

As part of the Europe Africa SAP team:

• Coordinate and ensure with other colleagues and IT teams that the solutions and tools in the area are end-to-end consistent with the other SAP modules and external IT tools

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in information Technology, Computer Science or comparable qualification
• Proven experience as SAP Lead with in-depth-knowledge of SAP logistic modules (MM, PP, SD) and KMATs, minimum 5 years of experience:

-in medium-large industrial corporations

-in international and multi-cultural environment 

-in direct contact with German users and stakeholders

• Strong project management skills and the ability to lead cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
• Experience in business process definition 
• Experience in SAP Lifecycle management and Change management process
• Proactively customer and solution oriented
• Ability to understand hidden pain points behind business requirements and quickly identify potential solutions and / or workarounds
• Motivated to take ownership and courageous to communicate issues transparently
• Driving personality with the ability to motivate others outside of hierarchical structure 
• Strong team player with a permanent focus on the end-to-end delivered value 

• Safety, health & work-life balance: The highest standards for occupational safety, a wide range of health promotion and preventative healthcare programmes as well as regulated yet flexible working hours.
• Remuneration & pension schemes: Fair working conditions, competitive remuneration as an important basis and individual support for pension schemes with various models.
• Cohesion & diversity: Collegiality is extremely important to us - we treat everyone with respect, recognition and appreciation and promote an open and tolerant working culture.
• Freedom to organize & flexibility: A free working environment with a healthy error culture and options for different types of time off.
• Further training: Individual and personalized offers to start your job as well as training and development opportunities for your professional and personal development.
• Sustainability: We act responsibly and environmentally conscious.