Overview

Experience: 15 years

Type: Parel-Mumbai - Onsite

Duration: 12+ Months

Specification: Relevant experience retail / FMCG / CPG is required

Key Responsibilities

• Direct the strategic design, configuration, and multi-country deployment of SAP S/4HANA Sales and Distribution (SD/OTC) and Settlement Management processes, prioritizing standard adoption and clean-core principles.
• Enterprise Integration Architecture: Lead and deliver the integrations with Non-SAP Applications along with the Integration teams and regional App owners ensuring secure, zero disruption transactions with retail partners, wholesalers, and third-party distributors.
• Omnichannel E-Commerce Synchronization: Ensure seamless, real-time data flows (including pricing, catalog master data, and inventory visibility) between S/4HANA and digital commerce storefronts, streamlining end-to-end order orchestration.
• Revenue Growth Management & Trade Spend Controls: Architect and integrate specialized RGM and TPM applications with SAP S/4HANA Condition Contract Management (CCM) and Settlement Management. Enforce automation of promotional accruals, claims validation, rebate settlements, and rapid resolution of retailer deductions.
• Program Lifecycle Governance (Testing, Cutover, Hypercare):
  • Testing: Establish the master test strategy, supervising and signing off on SIT, UAT, performance, and regression testing in close alignment with key business stakeholders and the MDS Testing Lead.
  • Cutover: Lead the execution of a detailed, dependency-driven Cutover Runbook, carefully managing strict business downtime windows, data reconciliation, and establishing solid rollback/contingency protocols.
  • Hypercare: Direct the post-go-live War Room to resolve critical day-one incidents (pricing, invoicing, delivery blocks), and govern a smooth, structured transition to Application Managed Services (AMS).

Required Skills

• Minimum of 15 years of professional experience in IT, with at least 10 years in senior IT management in the Commercial Tech roles (CPG, FMCG, or Retail industry experience is highly preferred).
• Proven experience having successfully led at least one major, full-lifecycle global or regional S/4HANA migration or rollout (focusing on SD/OTC and commercial domains).
• Deep functional and technical understanding of Middleware, B2B EDI architectures using SAP Integration Suite, mulesoft etc.
• Solid mastery of S/4HANA Condition Contracts, customer rebates, automated accruals, and trade claims workflow processes.
• Proven history managing Steering Committees, Change Advisory Boards (CAB), configuration freezes, and utilizing multi-tier global/regional rollout delivery models.