Sr Manager, Solutions Lead

Role Responsibilities
People Leadership and Vendor Management
- Lead, mentor, and direct matrix colleagues, analysts, managers, contractors, and vendor resources supporting GMX data and analytics work.
- Set priorities, manage capacity, review deliverables, and ensure high-quality execution.
- Manage vendor execution and ensure responsiveness, documentation, and adherence to standards.
- Support sourcing, onboarding, knowledge transfer, succession planning, and continuity.

SAP GMX Solution Delivery Ownership and strategic accountability
- Own the global GMX data, analytics, and reporting solution portfolio across SAP BW, SAP BPC, SAP S/4HANA integrations.
- Accountable for GMX-enabled analytics, reporting, reconciliation, and certification capabilities.
- Provide strategic direction for solution design, data architecture, enablement, stability, and modernization.
- Drive roadmap planning; ensure support for Finance, Controllers, Supply Chain, and enterprise reporting.
- Provide judgment on complex GMX issues, SAP integration risks, and cross-functional impacts.

Portfolio, Demand, and Prioritization Management
- Manage the GMX demand pipeline with stakeholders and governance teams.
- Evaluate work by value, urgency, regulatory/compliance impact, feasibility, and capacity.
- Define delivery roadmaps balancing transformation, regulatory needs, and BAU stability.

Stakeholder Engagement and Business Partnership
- Serve as senior subject matter leader for Finance, Controllers, Digital, and SAP platform teams.
- Lead governance, design reviews, roadmap planning, escalations, and executive updates.
- Communicate risks, decisions, dependencies, and outcomes; build trusted partnerships.

Delivery Leadership and Operational Excellence
- Lead end-to-end delivery (requirements through support transition).
- Provide oversight for quality, consistency, documentation, and production readiness.
- Drive RCA and long-term remediation for recurring production/data defects.
- Ensure standards, code review, testing, release governance; improve operations via automation/monitoring.

Governance, Controls, Compliance and Audit Readiness
- Establish governance standards for data, analytics, reporting, certifications, reconciliations, and documentation.
- Ensure adherence to SDLC, change control, testing/validation, audit/compliance, and data governance.
- Maintain audit-ready artifacts and operational playbooks.
- Ensure testing includes unit/integration/regression, reconciliation validation, business acceptance, and production readiness.

Communication, Escalation, and Executive Readiness
- Provide leadership status updates; prepare governance materials.
- Escalate critical risks/issues with mitigation options.
- Drive adoption via demos, knowledge sharing, and training support.

Basic Qualifications (Required)
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- 10+ years in SAP BW/SAP BPC/finance data solutions/enterprise reporting or data platform delivery with hands-on leadership in:
- Data ingestion (DataSources, ODQ, InfoPackages, DTPs, process chains, delta load management)
- Data modeling (Advanced DSOs, Composite Providers, Open ODS Views, Analytic Indexes, ABAP transformation routines)
- BW query development (BEx Query Designer/BW Modeling Tools; key figures, variables, conditions)
- AfO workbooks/templates
- BPC planning functions (FOX scripts, data manager packages, planning sequences, input schedules)
- In-depth ABAP programming and end-to-end troubleshooting
- Deep experience with GMX, EarnIn, finance close, certifications, and reconciliations.
- Demonstrated experience with SAP BPC (Standard or Embedded).
- Demonstrated people leadership/management and direction to matrixed/contracted resources.
- Functional knowledge of SAP S/4HANA SD pricing condition technique.
- Working knowledge of SAP Material Master concepts relevant to BW.
- Finance domain knowledge in CO-PC and FI-GL; finance master data governance.
- Exceptional communication and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Experience with SOX/GMP/audit/compliance/validation/financial controls.

Preferred Qualifications
- SAP certifications in BW, BPC, or SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
- Experience with SAC or SAP BOBJ tools.
- Ability to develop roadmaps/manage portfolio demand/communicate outcomes.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, or regulated industry.

Non-standard Work/Travel
- Occasional evening/weekend support during close cycles, deployments, cutovers, critical incidents, and reporting deadlines.
- Limited domestic/international travel for stakeholder engagement and governance.

Application
- Last day to apply: August 25, 2026.