Senior Sap Practice Director

Sutherland is a global leader in driving business and digital transformation, and exceptional experiences along the entire journey of our client’s engagement with their customers. With over 35 years of experience, we combine deep domain expertise and extensive knowledge in proven optimization with both proprietary and partnered tools and platforms to drive growth, efficiency, and productivity across organizations.

Sutherland brings together our people, processes, products and platforms across cognitive artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent automation, advance analytics and digital services to create unique solutions for the industries that we service. The core values of remaining agile, outside-the-box thinking, uncompromising integrity and flawless execution are key pillars of the company.

We serve marque brands across Healthcare, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Communications, Media and Entertainment, Technology, Travel and Logistics and Retail. Sutherland has 212 unique and independent inventions associated with several patent grants in critical technologies in the US and UK. Leveraging this IP and combining it with our platforms, domain expertise, engineering and digital expertise and collaborative partnerships, we are a team of 40,000 delivering tailored services and solutions driving tangible results at scale for our clients.

Job Description

We are seeking an accomplished and visionary Senior Practice Director with over 18 years of experience in SAP ECC and SAP S / 4HANA, with deep subject matter expertise in SAP functional domains. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading complex SAP ECC to S / 4HANA conversion around 4 projects. This strategic leadership role demands a blend of functional depth, delivery excellence, and practice development capabilities to drive transformation, innovation, and value realization for global clients.

• Lead and manage the SAP functional practice, ensuring innovation, delivery excellence, and stakeholder satisfaction across global programs.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert across SAP ECC and S / 4HANA landscapes, providing strategic guidance on solution architecture and process optimization.
• Guide / Coach team across full lifecycle delivery of SAP ECC to S / 4HANA conversion projects aligned with SAP Activate methodology.
• Provide leadership for RISE with SAP implementations, covering both Brownfield and Greenfield approaches.
• Define and execute transformation roadmaps across key SAP functional domains and business processes.
• Lead implementation and configuration of SAP S / 4HANA modules to align with enterprise-wide process requirements.
• Expertise in handling SAP Readiness Check, SAP Signavio Process Insights-discovery edition, Custom Code Analytics, Simplification items, Fiori Apps applicability,
• Design and optimize core SAP modules to ensure compliance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Ability to relate advanced SAP topics such as material ledger, revenue recognition, and business rules management.
• Lead data migration efforts from legacy systems to SAP S / 4HANA using SAP-recommended tools and methodologies.
• Implement internal controls, audit mechanisms, and compliance features within SAP applications.
• Guide cross-functional teams for adherence to integrated business process design.
• Support pre-sales and solutioning activities by aligning SAP capabilities with client requirements.
• Contribute to practice development through mentoring, knowledge sharing, and capability building.
• Engage in thought leadership and innovation initiatives to enhance SAP functional delivery and client value.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications :

Minimum 12 years of experience in SAP S / 4 HANA and / or SAP ECC related projects, to include :

Preferred Qualifications