Job Description Summary
This role is accountable for shaping and delivering the global SAP BW and Analytics strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performing data platforms that enable enterprise-wide decision-making and digital transformation.
The Global Lead drives end-to-end ownership of solution architecture, demand governance, and vendor execution to deliver measurable business value from SAP analytics investments. This leadership role plays a critical part in enabling S/4HANA transformation and ensuring consistent, high-quality analytics capabilities across regions and functions.
The role provides strategic and visionary leadership for the SAP BW and Analytics domain by shaping the future-state roadmap, governance model, SAP CoE alignment, investment priorities and budget discipline. It ensures that data, analytics and reporting capabilities are not only stable and compliant, but also positioned as strategic enablers for simplification, standardization, innovation, transformation readiness and measurable business value.
Job Description
Global Head SAP BW and Analytics Platforms
Sandoz continues to go through an exciting and transformative period as a global leader and pioneering provider of sustainable Biosimilar and Generic medicines. As we continue down this new and ambitious path, unique opportunities will present themselves, both professionally and personally. Join us, the future is ours to shape!
Job Summary
This role is accountable for shaping and delivering the global SAP BW and Analytics strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performing data platforms that enable enterprise-wide decision-making and digital transformation.
The Global Lead drives end-to-end ownership of solution architecture, demand governance, and vendor execution to deliver measurable business value from SAP analytics investments. This leadership role plays a critical part in enabling S/4HANA transformation and ensuring consistent, high-quality analytics capabilities across regions and functions.
The role provides strategic and visionary leadership for the SAP BW and Analytics domain by shaping the future-state roadmap, governance model, SAP CoE alignment, investment priorities and budget discipline. It ensures that data, analytics and reporting capabilities are not only stable and compliant, but also positioned as strategic enablers for simplification, standardization, innovation, transformation readiness and measurable business value.
Your Key Responsibilities
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Major accountabilities:
Strategy, Roadmap and Business Value
- Define and deliver the global SAP BW and Analytics strategy and roadmap, aligned with enterprise data, ERP and digital transformation priorities.
- Ensure SAP analytics investments are prioritized and delivered against clear business outcomes, value realization and enterprise-wide adoption.
- Translate complex business needs into scalable analytics capabilities and continuous process improvements that strengthen decision-making across functions and regions.
Solution Architecture and Platform Excellence
- Own end-to-end lifecycle accountability for SAP analytics platforms, from solution concept and design through delivery, optimization and continuous improvement.
- Support & implement architectural direction and governance to ensure scalable, secure, compliant and future-ready solutions across BW/4HANA and the broader analytics ecosystem.
- Enable successful integration with S/4HANA and related enterprise systems, ensuring consistent, reliable and high-performing analytics capabilities.
Data Governance, Risk and Operational Reliability
- Establish and enforce data management, integration and interoperability standards that support trusted, consistent and reusable analytics across systems.
- Drive risk management, platform performance, reliability and security outcomes for global analytics platforms.
- Ensure demand, delivery and operational governance support stable BAU performance, transformation programs and M&A integration requirements.
Vendor, Delivery and Team Leadership
- Lead the vendor ecosystem and delivery governance to secure high-quality outcomes across projects, services and transformation initiatives.
- Build and lead a high-performing global team of Solution Engineers and Solution Owners, strengthening accountability, collaboration and innovation.
- Create a culture of ownership, continuous improvement and partnership with business and Technology stakeholders.
- Create executive-level visibility through roadmap narratives, decision papers, governance dashboards, risk insights and value realisation updates that support senior leadership decisions.
- Shape portfolio choices and architectural direction by balancing business agility, regulatory expectations, operational stability, cyber and application security, technical debt reduction and total cost of ownership.
- Provide a forward-looking point of view on future SAP BW and Analytics capabilities, simplification, standardisation, automation, integration, data quality and innovation opportunities.
- Define and continuously evolve the multi-year SAP BW and Analytics strategy and roadmap in alignment with enterprise SAP strategy, S/4HANA transformation priorities, SAP CoE direction and business value objectives.
Strategic and Visionary Leadership
- Identify cost optimisation and value realisation opportunities across licenses, services, vendors, solution design, delivery models and operating practices.
- Prioritise demand and investments based on strategic fit, SAP roadmap alignment, business value, compliance needs, risk reduction, capacity and affordability.
- Partner with Finance, Procurement and vendor management to ensure SOWs, invoices, purchase orders, accruals and cost allocations are transparent, accurate and aligned with approved scope and business value.
- Own budget planning, forecasting and financial governance for the SAP BW and Analytics portfolio, including change, project, vendor and transformation spend where applicable.
Investment Prioritisation and Value Realisation
- Contribute to SAP CoE capability building by coaching Solution Owners, Solution Engineers and partner teams on governance expectations, decision quality and value-led delivery.
- Drive cross-domain alignment with other SAP platform leads to manage dependencies, integration risks, master data impacts, release priorities and transformation sequencing.
- Translate SAP CoE principles into practical delivery guardrails, reusable patterns, quality gates and operating routines for projects, enhancements and BAU services.
- Represent the SAP BW and Analytics domain in SAP CoE governance forums, ensuring that domain roadmaps, architecture decisions, delivery standards and risk positions are transparent and aligned with the broader SAP strategy
SAP CoE Governance and Cross-Domain Leadership
- SAP BW and Analytics strategy and roadmap approved through SAP CoE governance and progressed against agreed milestones, priorities and value outcomes.
- SAP CoE standards, architecture guardrails, methodology and governance routines adopted consistently across the domain portfolio.
- Budget performance managed against approved plan, including forecast accuracy, cost transparency, SOW and invoice governance, and timely escalation of financial risks.
- Portfolio prioritisation decisions demonstrably aligned to SAP strategy, business value, compliance, risk reduction, capacity and affordability.
- Strategic risks, architectural dependencies, technical debt and transformation readiness items identified early, governed transparently and managed through active mitigation plans.
- Value realisation from SAP investments tracked through business outcomes, simplification, standardisation, adoption, service quality and measurable improvement actions.
- Cross-domain collaboration effectiveness within the SAP CoE, including dependency management, reusable design patterns, shared standards and timely decisions
Minimum Requirements
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Minimum 15+ years of experience in relevant field and 10+ years of experience in SAP BW/BI, and analytics, including large-scale transformation or full-cycle implementations.
- Demonstrated expertise in SAP BW/4HANA or BW on HANA and related analytics technologies.
- Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA data structures, integration patterns, and data modelling.
- Proven track record of leading global teams and large-scale SAP analytics programs.
- Experience in solution architecture ownership and governance in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong capability in stakeholder management across business and IT leadership layers.
- Experience managing external vendors and multi-partner delivery landscapes.
- Deep understanding of data warehousing concepts, integration, and enterprise analytics platforms.
- Experience shaping SAP domain strategy, roadmap governance and future-state capability direction in alignment with SAP CoE and enterprise transformation priorities.
- Proven ability to manage technology budgets, forecasts, vendor financials, SOWs, invoices and value realisation in complex global environments.
- Strong understanding of SAP CoE operating models, cross-domain governance, architecture guardrails, methodology adoption and executive stakeholder management.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (Master’s preferred).
- Relevant SAP certifications strongly preferred.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
Join us!
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Skills Desired
Budget Management, Business Acumen, Performance Management, Risk Management, Service Delivery Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Planning, Talent Development, Waterfall Project Management
