
SAP S/4 HANA Product Delivery Lead, STP & FTS
Twinings
full-time
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Location: 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Senior
About the role
- The Product Delivery Lead is responsible for leading product development initiatives on our SAP S/4HANA platform and associated applications, managing end-to-end product lifecycles, and ensuring that all products and tools support business objectives, regulatory requirements, and user needs.
- Collaborate closely with the relevant functional area stakeholders, technology partners, and senior management to develop, improve, and expand products and processes that enhance business efficiency, compliance, and revenue growth.
- Define and communicate a clear product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the applicable functional area that aligns with business goals and delivers value and growth.
- Oversee the formulation and prioritization of product initiatives, ensuring alignment with business priorities and informed by commercial, financial, and operational analysis, market trends, value realization, and input from stakeholders.
- Act as the owner of the Global Template for the applicable functional area(s), maintaining the highest standards in the design and delivery of new demand and capabilities.
- Oversee the functional design and delivery of all Enhancements, Projects, Programmes and Support for the respective domain area.
- Act as the primary liaison between business functions, technology, operations, and executive teams to ensure alignment on goals, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle: ideation, design, development, testing, launch, adoption, and support.
- Ensure that product roadmaps and initiatives are aligned with company budgets and strategies, prioritising high-value outcomes.
- Establish and monitor key product and business metrics to identify improvement areas and support data-informed decision-making.
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of business analysts, functional experts, and other relevant team members.
- Cultivate a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- End-to-end understanding of business and technical disciplines enabling solution design.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver end-to-end SAP solutions across disciplines.
- Familiarity with SAP delivery methodologies.
- Capable communicator across technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
- Adept in managing diverse, global teams within complex and challenging environments.
- Relationship builder – internal and external.
- Effective communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement.
- Dynamic, resolute, and effective in producing cross-departmental outcomes.
- SAP S/4HANA certifications in the applicable functional area(s); additional module certifications.
- Deep practical experience in IBP with SAP Ariba and S/4HANA STP being an added advantage. Need to manage STP functional experts.
- Configuration experience in Demand Planning, S&OP with Procurement, Response & Supply, Control Tower, Spend Analysis, and Business Network.
- Demonstrated solution design and delivery of end-to-end STP and FTS process landscapes.
- Multiple full lifecycle implementations in FMCG / CPG required