About the Role
As IT Director, SAP S/4HANA Order to Cash Transformation, you will play a central role in a global ERP transformation, influencing how commercial, distribution and financial processes operate globally. This is an opportunity to redefine how a global organisation commercialises, scales and competes, requiring someone who can operate at scale, influence senior stakeholders and bring clarity to highly complex environments. You will shape how the business delivers value to its customers.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the global Order to Cash domain, acting as the solution authority.
- Define the future state architecture and guide global deployment to ensure SAP S/4HANA enables a streamlined, compliant and scalable commercial ecosystem.
- Manage pricing, contract management, fulfilment, billing, revenue recognition, and innovative models like consignment, loan kits, and field inventory.
- Shape the global template and influence strategic decisions to reduce complexity and unlock value by working closely with senior leaders across commercial, finance, and logistics.
- Challenge legacy approaches, define design principles, and ensure solutions are grounded in business outcomes.
- Lead and develop a team of architects, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading Order to Cash transformation within SAP S/4HANA, including ownership of solution design across complex, global environments.
- Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across commercial, finance, and supply chain functions.
- A track record of simplifying landscapes, reducing unnecessary integrations, and enabling scalable, global templates.
- Demonstrated leadership capability, including building high performing teams and operating effectively in global, matrixed organisations.
- Strong governance mindset, acting as a true design authority balancing global standards with business flexibility.
- Understanding of how to design compliant commercial systems in regulated industries.
- Strategic thinking about how SAP can enable innovation, including AI-driven capabilities.
- Ability to articulate the art of the possible and challenge decisions constructively.
Skills
- SAP S/4HANA Order to Cash transformation
- Solution design
- Stakeholder influence
- Team leadership
- Governance
- Strategic thinking
- AI capabilities
Location
- UK
- Poland
- Germany
Work Type
- Hybrid Working Model
Experience Level
- Senior technology leader
- Beyond configuration expertise
Benefits
- Generous annual bonus
- Pension Schemes
- Save As You Earn share options
- Car allowance
- Flexible Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Volunteering Hours
- Private Health and Dental plans
- Healthcare Cash Plans
- Income Protection
- Life Assurance
- Discounts on Gyms and fitness clubs
- Salary Sacrifice Bicycle and Car Schemes
- Employee discounts
About the Company
- Smith+Nephew is a global medical technology company that designs and manufactures technology to remove limitations from living.
- We support healthcare professionals to return patients to health and mobility.
- Our culture is built on Care, Collaboration, and Courage, fostering a spirit of ownership and a can-do attitude.
- We are a company of people who care about each other, our customers, their patients, and our communities.
- Our shared purpose is Life Unlimited.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Inclusion and Belonging.
