Senior Manager, SAP Data Lead

About the role

We are seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA Data Lead to own the data strategy, governance, and migration workstreams for our SAP S/4HANA implementation program. This role is critical to ensuring clean, accurate, and well-governed data across the enterprise as we transition to S/4HANA, and will serve as the primary authority on data quality, migration methodology, and master data standards throughout the program lifecycle. In this role, you will also have the SAP S/4 data migration team as direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end data workstream for the S/4HANA program, including data assessment, cleansing, mapping, migration, validation, and reconciliation.
• Define and own the data migration strategy, approach, and tooling.
• Develop and enforce master data governance standards for key domains (e.g., Customer, Vendor, Material, Finance, Chart of Accounts, Cost Center).
• Partner with business process owners to define data quality rules, cleansing criteria, and acceptance thresholds prior to migration.
• Oversee data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) activities from legacy systems into S/4HANA.
• Lead mock and final data load cycles, coordinating with functional teams (FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, PM, etc.) to validate data readiness.
• Establish data reconciliation processes to ensure completeness and accuracy between legacy and target systems.
• Manage a team of data analysts, data migration specialists, and offshore resources supporting the data workstream.
• Identify data-related risks and issues, and develop mitigation plans in coordination with program leadership.
• Define and track KPIs/metrics for data quality, migration progress, and defect resolution.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOX) throughout the migration.
• Support post-go-live data governance, including ongoing master data maintenance processes and controls.
• Document data standards, migration runbooks, and lessons learned for future phases or rollouts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in SAP data management, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.

Skills and Qualifications

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with the SAP Master Data Governance application.
• Experience with the Syniti application.
• Experience managing a team.
• Strong leadership skills and proven ability to adapt leadership style to different situations and people as well as to a complex business structure.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity, decision‑making, work quality, and to reduce costs; able to identify appropriate AI use cases and critically evaluate AI‑generated outputs.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Pay

• Employee Type: Salaried
• Currency: USD
• Salary Minimum: $140,000
• Salary Maximum: $180,000
• Incentive: Yes