SAP BW Analytics Lead

Job Description

As a SAP BW / Analytics Lead you will:

• Lead and manage a global SAP BI / Analytics team consisting of BW/HANA specialists and senior subject matter experts

• Act as the primary technical and delivery lead for SAP BW on HANA and Analytics initiatives across regions

• Own endtoend delivery of SAP BI solutions from demand intake and requirements shaping through design build testing and golive

• Facilitate and guide requirementsgathering workshops with business stakeholders and senior functional partners

• Review validate and approve Functional Specifications and technical designs ensuring optimal balance between standard and custom solutions

• Define and govern SAP BW/HANA architecture data modelling standards and development best practices

• Coordinate internal team activities and manage dependencies with external vendors and system integrators

• Oversee testing strategy and execution (SIT/UAT) ensuring quality traceability and regulatory compliance

• Ensure effective hypercare postgolive support and structured knowledge transfer to support teams

• Drive adherence to company SDLC lifecycle management and quality standards across the team

• Provide technical leadership for ECC to S/4HANA remediation and transformation initiatives impacting Analytics

• Mentor coach and develop team members supporting skill growth career progression and succession planning

What we need:

• 10 years experience in SAP BW and HANAbased analytics solutions

• 57 years experience in a technical leadership or lead role

• Proven experience leading SAP BW on HANA or Native HANA implementations

• Strong functional and business process understanding across multiple SAP domains with a focus on Analytics

• Deep expertise in BW objects HANA modelling and architectural governance

• Practical understanding of S/4HANA migration impacts on BW

• Experience working in regulated industries (pharma preferred)

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Demonstrated ability to lead distributed multicultural teams

Nice to have:

• SAP Datasphere / Business Data Cloud (BDC) exposure

• SAP ABAP knowledge (design and review level)

• Experience with SAP BOBJ (Web Intelligence) or SAP Analytics Cloud

• Experience working with global system integrators

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