SAP Practice Leader/Managing Director (m/f/d) Frankfurt, Germany or Remote
SAP Practice Leader/Managing Director (m/f/d) Description
We’re looking for a hybrid SAP Practice Leader with expertise in the SAP Eco System to join our team in Europe. Are you strategic, resilient, engaging with people and a natural self-starter with a passion for framing complex industry problems?
If so, you could be the perfect candidate for this role! This is a great opportunity to work with the best-in-class engineering, digital innovation and design teams supporting you in shaping our future SAP practices. As the leader of this unit, you will be focused on the end-to-end value chain across the consumer ecosystem. We are looking for an industry leader who can understand industry challenges, frame the right business problem, apply them to client needs, and craft solutions for how to address them.
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Responsibilities
- Establish and build upon an existing culture of inclusion, integrity, respect and support of the team. This includes setting the direction and purpose of our Global SAP practice based on our global and local firm wide strategy
- Manage, lead and mentor a global team of SAP specialists and grow future skills from within based on market demand. This includes ownership of the employee lifecycle from interviewing and hiring, through to developing skills, performance rating and disciplinary responsibilities
- Profit and Loss budgeting responsibility, ensuring that the practice holds the right balance of people, skills and availability to meet current and future demand pipeline
- Play an active role in relationship management with clients by supporting procurement/RFP/RFQ/RFI proposals, demonstrations and presentations
- Work with other SAP, Technology and Consulting practice leaders as part of our broader Consulting leadership team
- Connect and collaborate with peers from other EPAM practices and Global delivery organisation to build on and offshore capabilities, bringing together a robust team to deliver cross functional SAP and non-SAP solutions to clients throughout the world
- Align practice management duties with wider EPAM strategic initiatives to create a culture of collaboration, to serve with integrity and foster an inclusive environment
Requirements
- Demonstrable large/global practice management and practice leadership skills in a professional services or consulting environment (ideally from a big four or a tier 1 global consulting firm)
- Sound financial literacy and commercial acumen are a must
- Good understanding of functional and technical SAP architectural principles that drive a successful programme
- Expertise in a core work stream/domain will be highly beneficial (Financials, Supply Chain, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Planning or Manufacturing)
- Experience delivering at least two full lifecycle large scale SAP S4/HANA programmes with enterprise clients locally or globally, in both agile and waterfall environments
- Open communicator and ability to quickly establish rapport with people at all levels, including executive/C level clients and Partner group
- Proven ability to think creatively to solve complex problems and executing solutions to a high level to ensure that practice is on track to achieve budget, profitability and headcount
- Ability to live the EPAM values and engrain strategic initiatives into the everyday culture of the team, building on an already high performing team
- German speaking and located in Germany is a preference
We offer
- 30 days holiday per annum
- Company pension scheme
- EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- bitkom - Corporate Benefits
- Regular corporate and social events
- Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, over 22,000 courses on LinkedIn Learning Solutions and much more
- *All benefits and perks are subject to certain eligibility requirements
