Vice President, Digital Transformation

Job Summary

VP of IT Digital Transformation Leader

Role Summary

The Digital Transformation Leader is accountable for establishing and leading the enterprisewide transformation to SAP S/4HANA including building the SAP organization from the ground up. This role owns strategy team creation execution adoption and value realization for the companys SAP journey and enabling the overall digital strategy for our organization.

The leader will create a worldclass SAP capability leverage Agentic AI and SAP Joule to accelerate delivery and adoption and deliver a standardized intelligent digital core that enables operational excellence scalability and longterm business agility. He/She/They will work closely with the business and digital teams to define our overall digital business transformation roadmap fueled through SAP S4.

This role serves as the single point of accountability for one of the companys most critical multiyear digital business transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise SAP S/4HANA Transformation

• Define and execute the companywide SAP S/4HANA transformation strategy aligned to business priorities and longterm digital vision.
• Establish transformation principles focused on standardization clean core minimal customization and SAP bestpractice adoption.
• Lead the endtoend S/4HANA implementation across all business units and regions including design build testing data migration cutover and stabilization.
• Own executive governance steering committees and all major scope design and investment decisions.
• Partner with Business transformation leaders to enable change management and adoption to the blueprint and accelerate the implementation roadmap

Build & Lead the SAP Organization

• Design and build the internal SAP capability from scratch including:
  • SAP Center of Excellence (CoE)
  • Functional leads (Finance Supply Chain Manufacturing Procurement Sales)
  • Technical integration data and analytics roles
  • Release management support and continuousimprovement teams
• Define the operating model for SAP ownership postgolive (run enhance innovate).
• Establish clear role definitions career paths and capabilitybuilding plans to reduce longterm reliance on system integrators.
• Recruit develop and retain top SAP talent while creating a strong culture of accountability business partnership and continuous improvement.
• Determine the optimal mix of internal staff partners and managed services over time.

Agentic AIEnabled Transformation Delivery

• Leverage Agentic AI to materially improve speed quality and predictability of the S/4HANA program by augmenting:
  • Process discovery and fittostandard analysis
  • Requirements rationalization and blueprint validation
  • Data profiling cleansing migration and reconciliation
  • Test case generation execution insights and defect triage
  • Cutover planning risk forecasting and scenario simulation
• Embed AI agents into delivery workflows to reduce manual effort and program cycle time.
• Establish controls and governance to ensure AIassisted outcomes are accurate auditable and compliant.

SAP Joule & Intelligent User Enablement

• Champion SAP Joule as the embedded AI copilot across S/4HANA to:
  • Improve business user productivity through conversational access to SAP processes and data.
  • Reduce training burden and accelerate adoption with contextaware guided assistance.
  • Enable faster decisions through actionable realtime insights inside SAP workflows.
• Prioritize highvalue Joule use cases across Finance Supply Chain Manufacturing and Commercial functions.
• Ensure Joule is deployed securely responsibly and aligned with enterprise AI governance.

Business Process & Value Transformation

• Drive enterprisewide process harmonization across core value streams (RecordtoReport OrdertoCash ProcuretoPay PlantoProduce).
• Translate business strategy into standardized SAP capabilities and AIdriven insights.
• Resolve crossfunctional tradeoffs to optimize enterprise outcomes rather than local customization.

Change Management & Adoption

• Lead change management and adoption globally ensuring strong executive sponsorship and business ownership.
• Use AIdriven insights to proactively identify adoption risks training gaps and process friction.
• Establish superuser networks rolebased enablement and structured postgolive optimization cycles.

Technology Architecture & Data

• Ensure SAP S/4HANA is implemented as a clean scalable digital core integrated with surrounding systems analytics and AI services.
• Oversee data governance master data management and analytics foundations required for intelligent operations.
• Partner with IT leadership on deployment model decisions (onpremise private cloud public cloud RISE with SAP).

Vendor Financial & Risk Management

• Manage global system integrators and SAP partners with disciplined performance cost and quality management.
• Own transformation budgets benefits tracking and ROI realizationincluding productivity gains from AI.
• Identify manage and mitigate delivery organizational and technology risks.

Executive & Board Engagement

• Serve as the executive owner and primary spokesperson for the SAP and AIenabled transformation.
• Provide transparent outcomefocused reporting on progress risks adoption and realized value.
• Translate transformation status into clear business impact for senior leadership and the Board.

Qualifications & Experience

• 15 years of experience leading largescale ERP or digital transformations in complex global enterprises.
• Proven delivery of at least one endtoend SAP S/4HANA implementation.
• Experience building and scaling SAP teams or Centers of Excellence strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of Finance Supply Chain Manufacturing and Commercial processes.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI analytics or automation to enterprise transformation.
• Executivelevel credibility with the ability to drive alignment and tough decisions.
• Bachelors degree required; MBA or equivalent preferred.
• SAP S/4HANA SAP Activate transformation leadership certifications a plus.

Leadership Competencies

• Enterpriselevel strategic thinker with strong business and financial acumen
• Builder mindsetcomfortable creating teams capabilities and operating models from scratch
• A disciplined professional with a commitment to standardized processes.
• Fluent in translating SAP and AI capabilities into measurable business outcomes

What youll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical dental and vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Short-term and Long-term Disability
• Matching 401(k) Contributions
• Vacation and Paid Sick Time
• Tuition Reimbursement

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