Head of SAP Centre of Excellence

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced SAP professional as Head of SAP Centre of Excellence, to provide excellent leadership in guiding, directing, and managing the SAP Centre of Excellence team.

For the duration of this fixed term contract your primary focus will be stabilising our SAP environment whilst ensuring the delivery of new functionality is seamless. Reporting into the IT Director you will closely collaborate across the organisation with our internal customers and technical teams in defining solution options that meet our business needs. You will have ownership for planning and managing multiple application services, development, maintenance, and enhancement of our services utilising SAP technologies and resources.

About the role:

You will be the key point of contact for Business stakeholders for SAP operations, prioritisation and issue resolution.

Provide clear leadership and management across technical and functional SAP COE teams to enhance current processes.

Accountable for delivering and maintaining functionality, system availability, security and performance across the SAP Landscape (ECC/Hana, BW/BOBJ, SRM, CRM, PI, BPC), supporting business requirements.

Provide leadership and guidance to the business on their use and development of the SAP solutions.

Continually identify and seek opportunities to improve business processes and support critical business strategies.

Work closely with key IT functional areas that enable multiplatform solution development.

Responsible for collaborating with business-unit management, technology / business subject matter experts, various IT functional areas, and outside consultants, to assess feasibility, determine costs versus benefits, prioritize projects, and develop and implement systems plans that address the information requirements of the business and adhere to established strategic business and systems objectives.

Proactively manage and interface with 3rd party service providers, ensuring fixes and enhancements are delivered in a quality manner and within predefined SLA timescales

You will:

Be highly experienced in SAP service operations and with extensive knowledge of providing support across a complex integrated SAP landscape.

Have people management and development experience with the ability to create high performance teams.

Have led at least 1 large scale implementation of SAP solution (preferably ERP) to stable operations as either overall PM or IT lead that had a significant impact on that businesses operations.

Have working knowledge of concepts and best practices in the following areas: application development, software development life cycle, requirements gathering, design and analysis, QA, multi-tier architecture, hosted and cloud services, and database administration.

Be experienced in supporting an ERP deployment into a multi-division enterprise.

Have a great attitude that always exudes a "can do" approach.

Have a proven ability to build relationships with both business and IT.

Be enthusiastic, self-supporting, and confident.

Have a proven ability to take ownership of problems and the decision making process to resolve them.

Be able to empathise with business units on how technology will impact their areas and how we can use technological change for the better.

Benefits

Generous contributory pension

28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

Annual performance related bonus and increases (discretionary)

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay and childcare voucher scheme

Employee discount and cash back scheme at 1,200 retailers

Cycle scheme

Subsidised canteens

Support for professional qualifications

The closing date for receipt of applications is 9 July 2017 and interviews will be held shortly after.

To find out more about this role and to apply, please click the APPLY button.

As part of your recruitment process you will be required to undergo a background screening. This will be carried out by our selected supplier, Credence Background Screening Limited.

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