SAP Change & Transformation Manager

Business Readiness Leadership

• Develop further and implement Business Readiness strategies and plans for SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
• Establish readiness governance, frameworks, reporting structures, and management routines.
• Define and maintain business readiness criteria, milestones, and quality gates.
• Drive readiness assessments and support Go/No-Go decision processes.
• Ensure business continuity throughout deployment, cutover, hypercare, and stabilization phases.
• Monitor overall organizational readiness and proactively address readiness risks.

Change Impact Management

• Lead Change Impact Assessments across business processes, organizational structures, roles, systems, ways of working, and support models.
• Evaluate the impact of SAP-driven changes on business operations and end users.
• Define mitigation strategies and change action plans.
• Maintain change impact and readiness tracking dashboards.
• Support local teams in translating global SAP changes into local business impacts.

Stakeholder and Sponsorship Management

• Develop stakeholder engagement and sponsor roadmaps.
• Build strong partnerships with business leaders, process owners, project teams, and local management.
• Coach senior leaders in sponsoring organizational change.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment and readiness decision-making.

Communication and Engagement

• Cooperate with our communication team to provide input for clear and business-focused messaging regarding the transformation vision, benefits, impacts, and expectations.

Training and Capability Building

• Define learning and enablement strategies for impacted user groups.
• Establish and govern Key User, Super User, and Change Champion networks.
• Ensure role-based learning concepts are developed and deployed.
• Track training effectiveness and readiness indicators.
• Support knowledge transfer and user adoption activities throughout the program.

User Adoption and Hypercare

• Define and monitor adoption metrics and success measures.
• Assess end-user readiness before deployment.
• Support business hypercare preparations and stabilization activities.
• Identify adoption barriers and coordinate corrective actions.
• Collect and incorporate business feedback into continuous improvement activities.

Readiness Governance and Reporting

• Prepare readiness dashboards and executive status reports.
• Facilitate readiness reviews with business stakeholders.
• Escalate readiness risks and mitigation actions where required.
• Present readiness status to Program Management, Steering Committees, and senior stakeholders.

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Organizational Change Management, Business Readiness, or Transformation Management. 
• Minimum 3 years of experience supporting SAP S/4HANA transformation programs. 
• Proven track record leading business readiness activities through at least one major SAP deployment or go-live. 
• Demonstrated experience in: Change Impact Management, Stakeholder Management, Executive Sponsorship, Change Communications, Training & Enablement, User Adoption, Business Readiness Assessments, Go-Live Readiness

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Organizational Development, Psychology, Human Resources, Communications, Information Systems, or a related discipline
• Prosci or APMG Change Management certification is a strong advantage
• Willingness to travel internationally.
• Fluent English required, German language skills are a plus.