An SAP CoE Lead manages the SAP Center of Excellence, bridging business and tech, to ensure standardized, efficient, and cutting-edge use of SAP across an organization, focusing on governance, project delivery, team leadership, stakeholder alignment, and driving roadmap strategies for systems like SAP S/4HANA, while enforcing best practices and continuous improvement.

Experience:

Extensive 16+ years of SAP experience (ECC 6, S/4HANA, BTP) with deep knowledge of modules (FI/CO, MM, SD).

Key Responsibilities:

Governance & Strategy: Define and enforce SAP standards, best practices, architecture (S/4HANA, BTP, Cloud), and ensure compliance, security, and risk management.

Leadership & Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop the CoE team (developers, functional experts, QA), managing P&L; and external vendors.





Project & Delivery Management: Oversee SAP program roadmaps, demand management, and ensure timely delivery of projects, enhancements, and support (Hypercare).

Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a liaison between business units, IT, and third-party vendors, managing expectations and securing buy-in.

Operational Excellence: Drive automation, process standardization, system upgrades, performance tuning, and maintain knowledge repositories.

Technical Oversight: Ensure solution design adheres fit-to-standard, manages integrations, data quality, and oversees testing (SIT, UAT)

📌 SAP COE LEAD (Pune)
🏢 Birlasoft
📍 Pune