Senior Director, SAP Platforms

The role serves as a strategic IT Business Partner and SAP Product/Delivery Lead, acting as the primary bridge between business units, bottling partners, and application development and support teams. It is responsible for shaping and executing the SAP application roadmap by aligning technology solutions with business strategy, value realization, and operational excellence. 

The position drives the development, enhancement, and adoption of SAP systems through strong stakeholder engagement, Agile delivery, and effective backlog and release management. It evaluates emerging business needs and technology trends, performs cost-benefit analyses to inform investment decisions, and recommends innovative, scalable solutions that improve business processes. 

By fostering sustainable relationships with bottling partners, vendors, and internal stakeholders, the role ensures successful delivery of incremental business value while proactively identifying risks and removing obstacles to product delivery. The role also champions Agile ways of working, leads cross-functional teams, and brings external innovation into the organization to enable continuous improvement and long-term IT capability growth. 

What You’ll Do for Us 

• Act as a liaison between the application development & support and the business units for the development and implementation of new SAP systems and enhancement of existing systems. 

• Conduct cost/benefit analyses for proposed IT SAP projects/products as input to the organization’s IT roadmap. 

• Build sustainable relationships with the bottling partner(s) in the BU to drive strategic IT changes. 

• Make recommendations for solutions or improvements to business processes that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology. 

• Coordinate backlog and release management. 

• Drive Agile adoption and lead Agile teams to deliver incremental value to the business. 

• Evaluate new IT developments and evolving business requirements and recommend appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems. 

• Identify potential threats for the product delivery and help to remove them. 

• Manage stakeholders and vendors as IT Business Partner and bring innovation from outside. 

Qualifications & Requirements 

• A Master’s Degree or equivalent experience. 

• 10+ years’ experience leading IT strategy for a large global company. 

• Proven experience leading SAP Platforms and Development Teams. 

• Proven experience in leading IT initiatives and driving strategic changes. 

• Strong understanding of application development & support, and the ability to translate business requirements into application requirements. 

• Experience in conducting cost/benefit analyses for IT projects/products. 

• Ability to build and maintain relationships with various partners and stakeholders. 

• Experience in backlog and release management.