Vice President SAP Services

Location: New York / Los Angeles
Reports to: SVP Product & Engineering

WME is seeking a Vice President SAP Services to oversee the operational health technical roadmap and continuous improvement of our SAP ecosystem. This role provides hands-on leadership across SAP ECC SLT BW BPC BTP GRC and Concur ensuring stability performance and alignment with evolving business needs.

The VP will partner closely with Finance Technology and business stakeholders to prioritize enhancements guide modernization efforts support readiness for future S/4HANA work and ensure SAP systems are secure optimized and reliable.

This leader will manage day-to-day operations drive cross-functional delivery and implement governance standards and processes that strengthen system performance and business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Support development of the SAP roadmap and ensure alignment with broader IT and enterprise objectives.

• Lead modernization and optimization initiatives across the SAP landscape including cloud adoption platform upgrades and integration improvements.

• Establish governance standards to ensure system stability security compliance and resiliency.

• Promote best practices in architecture integration change management and solution design.

• Manage cross-functional delivery teams business analysts and vendors to ensure predictable high-quality outcomes.

• Drive continuous improvement across processes performance metrics monitoring and user satisfaction.

• Assess emerging technologies and recommend improvements that support business needs and reduce technical debt.

• Partner with senior technology leaders to ensure SAP architecture integrations and data flows align with enterprise requirements.

• Support cost-benefit analysis vendor evaluations and contract optimization.

• Serve as the primary operational liaison to global Finance leadership for SAP-related needs and enhancements.

• Develop strong relationships with Finance Accounting FP&A and business unit stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Partner with functional leads to prioritize enhancements manage escalations and ensure service reliability.

• Provide thought leadership on automation process improvements and technology opportunities within the SAP domain.

• Establish structured feedback loops with end users to improve workflows and identify pain points.

• Collaborate with audit risk and compliance teams to uphold control requirements and regulatory standards.

• Oversee day-to-day operations of the SAP environment and critical boundary systems.

• Lead technical and functional teams to ensure system uptime performance scalability and data integrity.

• Strengthen SAP security controls and compliance (SOX ITGC) and ensure readiness for audits.

• Implement automation and best practices in monitoring incident response and change control.

• Manage lifecycle planning: patches enhancements upgrades capacity planning and roadmaps.

• Build lead and develop a high-performing global SAP team with clear ownership and accountability.

• Foster a culture of collaboration innovation and continuous improvement.

• Mentor team members support career growth and plan for key role succession.

• Manage relationships with SI partners AMS providers and third-party vendors to supplement internal capabilities effectively.

Knowledge & Experience

• 810 years of SAP leadership experience across enterprise environments.

• Deep technical understanding of SAP ECC and related platforms (BW BPC SLT GRC Concur).

• Strong knowledge of end-to-end SAP process integration (RTR PTP OTC).

• Hands-on leadership managing SAP functional and technical teams across global or multi-country organizations.

• Experience delivering SAP transformation or modernization initiatives (upgrades cloud migrations integration improvements or S/4 readiness).

• Strong vendor management experience including AMS or SI partners.

• Solid understanding of SDLC ITSM integration frameworks and compliance requirements (SOX ITGC).

• Experience managing budgets and optimizing spend.

• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and guide decision-making through data and structured analysis.

• Experience in media entertainment sports marketing or licensing industries.

• Exposure to SAP BTP cloud integration tools or modern analytics platforms.

• Experience in environments undergoing business transformation or significant operational change.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Business or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Preferred: MBA or advanced degree.

• Preferred: SAP certifications.

Skills & Attributes

Required

• Strong communication skills with a collaborative consultative approach.

• Strategic thinker who can translate complex needs into actionable plans.

• Commercially aware and able to interpret both operational and financial impacts.

• Excellent prioritization skills in fast-moving environments with competing demands.

• Ability to simplify complex systems into practical scalable solutions.

Preferred

• Experience developing multi-year technology roadmaps.

• Strong negotiation skills with vendors and technology partners.

Hiring Range Maximum Compensation: $335000

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Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency the hourly rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications knowledge skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages which include base rate along with as applicable short- and long-term incentives growth and developmental opportunities and robust benefits such as health care retirement vacation and other paid time off and additional offerings.

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