Job title: SAP Integrations Lead

Contract: 3 months (possibility of extension)

Location: London (Hybrid)

As the Integrations Lead, you will provide a critical role for ensuring the success of a complex and large-scale SAP Finance Transformation within a major British multinational retailer. You will shape, plan, and deliver all Integration aspects of the Programme, enabling the migration of Finance capabilities from ECC to S/4HANA, and the decoupling of non-Finance capabilities to other business systems.

You will provide strategic leadership to ensure alignment in solution, delivery, and assurance of 100's of integrations in and out of S/4HANA and the phased cutover of integrations in and out of ECC to enable its eventual decommission.

This role demands a hands‑on delivery leader with strong technical competence, outstanding foresight, and the ability to navigate sophisticated, high‑risk environments. You will foster collaboration across engineering, product, finance, architecture and vendor partners, driving continuous improvement and embedding a culture of accountability, compliance, and evidence‑based decision making. You will ensure clarity and lead delivery of multi-team dependencies, and ensure technical and operational excellence across people, processes, and platforms to deliver secure, scalable, future‑ready capabilities.

Key accountabilities, responsibilities, and measures

Key Responsibilities

Lead the delivery of integrations required to support migration of Finance capabilities to S/4HANA, and enable the decoupling of non-Finance capabilities to other best-of-breed systems
Ensure clarity and alignment of the end-to-end architecture and solution of new / amended integrations including service adaptors / legacy abstractions
Closely track and lead Product/Program execution progress to deliver planned outcomes, through sync up events providing visibility and transparency on progress through appropriate cadence and tools
Develop roadmaps and objectives and key results with Product Manager(s) and engineering teams to ensure alignment to strategic ambitions for M&S and driving a customer first mind-set in Tech
Be responsible for and assure the technical development and release strategy, ensuring senior partners are advised and act as point of escalation for key risks and issues
Drive proactive dependency management between Product functions or domains to confidently plan and deliver integrated solutions
Implement strong quality assurance and continuous improvement processes to minimise risks to Program delivery
Able to foresee potential risks and issues, facilitate discussion and handle partner concerns
Responsible for the technology budget and driving value for money in the hardest working, most efficient way
Drive the successful adoption of DevOps supporting in the triage and resolution of major incidents and collaborating with Engineering and Product to ensure operational success
Work collaboratively with partners across business area(s) using deep and relevant technology experience to simplify complex technology issues
Build trusted relationships with and effectively manage contractual obligations with vendors and other external partners to ensure successful delivery of outcomes
Proactively evaluate industry, technology and delivery trends to demonstrate external findings and drive improvements internallyManage complex multi team Dependencies to deliver planned outcomes, through sync up events providing visibility and transparency on progress through appropriate cadence and tools

Key skills

Essential

5-10 years' Delivery experience Agile delivery frameworks and large-scale transformation programmes. Adapt at selecting the right framework/governance approach depending on the nature of the delivery.
Experience building and leading teams within large, complex organisations
Experience working with System Integrator partners in structured delivery environments
Strong stakeholder management across Finance, D&T, and delivery partners
Close to colleagues and closer to customers, working directly with end users to ensure the best fit deployment and adoption
Willingness to get stuck in and drive progress especially cross functional and cross team
An open mind and desire to think of new ways to do things rather than just sticking with the status quo
Good organisation skills and focused approach to project activity
Ability to understand operational data, metrics and performance measures
Very confident in the use of Jira and (url removed). Adapt at using the right tooling to drive progress across teams.
A strategic problem‑solver who challenges assumptions and drives innovative, technology‑led approaches to improving quality and reducing operational risk.
An outstanding partner manager, capable of influencing and engaging at all levels-including executive leadership, store operations, property, and finance

Desirable

Exposure to or familiarity with SAP Retail concepts
Experience with Agile delivery frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
Understanding of Retail industry operations and master data structures.
Retail sector experience.

Personal Attributes

A collaborative team player who enjoys problem-solving.
Curious, proactive, and eager to drive change.
Comfortable leading in a multi-disciplined team across internal/external resource, while adapting to shifting priorities.
Customer-focused with a commitment to delivering high quality business outcomes.
Ability to shape direction in ambiguity
A passion for problem solving and collaboration