The Lead SAP Consultant is responsible for leading the SAP consulting team and ensuring high-quality delivery across SAP implementation, transformation, and enhancement projects. The role combines strong hands-on SAP consulting expertise with team leadership, project delivery responsibility, and client advisory.
The position requires solid knowledge of SAP logistics processes and modules, such as MM, SD, PP, WM/EWM, with the ability to lead end-to-end SAP solutions and guide the team in delivering business-focused outcomes.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Performance
- Lead, mentor, and support a team of SAP consultants.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support professional development.
- Monitor team performance, workload, and delivery quality.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and development of SAP consultants.
- Act as the first escalation point for team and delivery-related topics.
SAP Consulting & Delivery
- Act as a senior SAP functional expert with strong knowledge of SAP logistics modules and processes.
- Lead SAP workstreams and ensure successful delivery of scope, timeline, quality, and budget.
- Review and guide solution designs, functional deliverables, and SAP best-practice adoption.
- Support requirements analysis, process design, testing, go-live, and issue resolution.
- Ensure effective integration across SAP logistics and related functional areas.
- Identify and manage delivery risks, issues, and dependencies.
Capacity & Project Planning
- Plan team capacity, workload, and resource allocation across SAP projects.
- Support project estimations, staffing, and forecasting.
- Review and validate effort and man-day estimations.
- Ensure appropriate allocation of consultants according to skills and project requirements.
Client & Stakeholder Management
- Act as a senior advisor to clients and key stakeholders.
- Lead workshops and support business and solution discussions.
- Communicate project status, risks, and escalations to management and clients.
- Build strong relationships with business and technical stakeholders.
Quality & Methodology
- Ensure high delivery and consulting quality across the team.
- Promote SAP best practices and ensure compliance with SAP Activate or relevant project methodologies.
- Support continuous improvement of SAP delivery processes and ways of working.
Required Experience
- Several years of experience as an SAP Consultant, including experience in a senior or lead role.
- Strong knowledge of SAP logistics modules, ideally with expertise in one or more of MM, SD, PP, WM/EWM.
- Proven experience leading SAP teams and/or workstreams.
- Experience in SAP implementation, rollout, transformation, or enhancement projects.
- Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA is an advantage.
- Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
- Fluent English; additional languages are an advantage.
