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Senior Manager – SAP Transformation

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Deep SAP functional and end-to-end process expertise
  • Experience leading complex SAP transformation programs
  • Understanding of the market and customer landscape
  • Experience across multiple industries

Responsibilities

  • Lead and oversee complex, full life-cycle SAP transformation programs
  • Manage program delivery across scope, timeline, budget, resources, risks, quality, and customer expectations
  • Serve as a senior point of contact for customers throughout the transformation lifecycle
  • Develop and maintain senior-level customer relationships and leverage an established professional network

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Program Management
  • Team Leadership
  • Mentorship
  • Entrepreneurship

About the company

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cbs Corporate Business Solutions

Digital Transformation Consulting

Consulting excellence for world market leaders – this is what cbs stands for. We advise the world’s most amazing companies: renowned, highly innovative customers and hidden champions of the international manufacturing, pharma, life science, chemical, and automotive industry. We share the drive, the values, and the culture. As a development platform for highly skilled and dedicated consultants, we aim to be the best, most innovative and reliable partner for our clients in our market.  With experience from more than 3,000 international projects and over 25 years of market presence, we are the hidden champion for global and digital end-to-end business process solutions. 70 percent of the world market leaders of European origin trust us. We are their partner at eye level and global supplier of their corporate business solutions based on SAP software and cloud technology. cbs reached revenue of €190 million in 2021. Since 2009, revenue has quadrupled. Lasting customer relationships have been the foundation of the company’s success. More than 300 high-profile companies place their trust in cbs. With cbs Enterprise Transformer® for SAP S/4HANA®, cbs offers an innovative software for transitioning to the new world of SAP.  As part of the Materna Group cbs draws on more than 1,200 employees at 22 locations – with its headquarters in Heidelberg, its offices in Germany (Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Dortmund, Rhine-Main, Stuttgart, Freiburg, Munich), and international offices (Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Finland, USA, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan). Through its global consulting organization, its subsidiary leogistics, the manufacturing specialist Trebing + Himstedt, the human experience management consultant projekt0708, supported by nearshore and offshore centers as well as a strong partner network, cbs implements successful large-scale client projects around the globe. Managing Directors: Rainer Wittwen (CEO), Holger Scheel, Stefan Risse

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryDigital Transformation Consulting
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

Be part of a high-performance team at cbs Corporate Business Solutions America, where innovation meets expertise in SAP consulting.

Whether you're driving new business opportunities in sales or leading transformative projects as a consultant, you’ll be at the forefront of digital innovation. Our culture fosters professional growth, teamwork, and continuous learning, ensuring you have the resources and support to excel.
With a 100% successful go-live rate and a reputation for delivering world-class SAP solutions, cbs is the place to build a rewarding career.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced and entrepreneurial Senior Manager – SAP Transformation to help drive the continued growth of our SAP consulting business in North America.

This is a senior client-facing role combining SAP end-to-end transformation leadership, program management, solution architecture, pre-sales and go-to-market activities and act as a proposal team lead. The successful candidate will bring deep SAP functional and end-to-end process expertise, experience leading complex SAP transformation programs, and a strong understanding of the market and customer landscape.

The role does not initially include direct reports. However, as the business grows, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to build and develop a team and help shape the growth of the practice.

We are particularly interested in candidates who have gained experience across multiple industries and can bring a broader perspective beyond a single sector.

Key Responsibilities:

SAP Transformation & Program Leadership

  • Lead and oversee complex, full life-cycle SAP transformation programs, including SAP M&A and SAP S/4HANA initiatives (Greenfield, Brownfield or SDT – Selective Data Transition).

  • Take responsibility for large SAP engagements and programs with significant scope, complexity, and commercial impact.

  • Manage program delivery across scope, timeline, budget, resources, risks, quality, and customer expectations.

  • Serve as a senior point of contact for customers throughout the transformation lifecycle.

  • Lead executive-level customer discussions, steering committees, program reviews, and escalation management.

  • Translate business objectives into SAP transformation roadmaps and executable programs.

  • Ensure successful coordination across functional, technical, business, and project teams.

Solution & Functional Leadership

  • Bring strong SAP functional expertise combined with end-to-end business process knowledge.

  • Understand dependencies across SAP functional areas and their impact on the overall business transformation.

  • Apply previous experience as a Functional Lead, Lead Consultant, Solution/Lead Architect, or similar role to complex customer environments.

Relevant functional backgrounds may include:

  • SAP Finance / Controlling

  • Supply Chain

  • Manufacturing

  • Logistics


Program & Commercial Responsibility

  • Manage SAP programs and customer engagements contributing toward approximately $5M+ in annual revenue responsibility.

  • Manage project financials, commercial performance, resource requirements, scope changes, and delivery commitments

  • Identify opportunities to expand existing customer relationships and generate additional consulting business.

Sales, Customer Development & Go-to-Market

  • Develop and maintain senior-level customer relationships and leverage an established professional network to create new business opportunities.

  • Actively contribute to go-to-market (GTM) strategy and execution.

  • Support and lead customer presentations, proposals, solution development, estimates, and sales pursuits.

  • Identify opportunities within both existing and prospective accounts.

  • Partner with sales and consulting leadership to develop new customers and expand strategic accounts

Practice Leadership

  • Bring an entrepreneurial mindset and actively contribute to building and expanding the SAP consulting practice.

  • Lead and mentor multidisciplinary SAP consulting teams across functional, technical, and data disciplines.

  • Provide guidance to Project Managers, Solution Architects, Stream Leads, and consultants.

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