In this position... This is a high-impact delivery leadership position. As the SAP Implementation & Integration Lead for Ford Energy, you will serve as the strategic and hands-on leader to spearhead our Greenfield implementation of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud. This role acts as the primary liaison between our System Integrator (SI), internal business process owners, and the technical leads of our broader Ford enterprise software ecosystem. Your mission is to ensure that our new ERP environment is not just "installed," but successfully "adopted." You will drive the Fit-to-Standard process, manage the complex web of integrations, and provide the technical leadership and oversight to ensure that the final solution delivers measurable business value while maintaining a "Clean Core" and full legal and regulatory compliance.
What you'll do...
Key Responsibilities
- Greenfield Strategy, Governance & Clean Core
- Methodology Execution: Partner with the System Integrator to manage the SAP Activate methodology phases (Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Run).
- Roadmap Ownership: Own the project roadmap from a business-readiness perspective, holding SAP, the SI, and peripheral system teams accountable to milestones.
- Clean Core Advocacy: Ensure that any necessary extensions are built "side-by-side" on SAP BTP rather than through legacy modifications, preserving our ability to receive bi-annual SAP updates automatically.
- Project Management: Define and refine project scope, develop roadmaps, maintain project plans, and provide regular governance report-outs to leadership.
- Fit-to-Standard & Technical Integration
- Process Alignment: Facilitate system design with business users and the SI to align company processes with SAP Best Practices. Act as the "guardian of the standard," challenging requests for customizations that could hinder future cloud upgrades.
- Integration Management: Coordinate with owners of peripheral systems to design, validate, and deliver end-to-end data flows.
- Platform Connectivity: Oversee the use of the SAP Integration Suite to ensure seamless connectivity and process integrity across the Ford Energy tech stack.
- Stakeholder Orchestration & Quality Assurance
- Technical Translation: Translate complex technical requirements from the SI into clear business impacts for executives, and vice-versa.
- Technical Coordination: Coordinate with SI functional teams and technical services (Release Management, Security, and SAP Cloud Basis) for transport management, cutover, upgrades, notes implementation, and build delivery.
- Testing & Validation: Lead the strategy for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Dry Run (DR) phases. Ensure business users validate that new processes work seamlessly in a real-world production context.
You'll have...
Required:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business-related field (or equivalent experience).
- SAP S/4HANA Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience with SAP ERP.
- Public Cloud Expertise: At least one full-lifecycle implementation of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, with a proven track record of managing cloud upgrades.
- Methodology Expertise: Proven technical oversight using the SAP Activate methodology and SAP Cloud ALM for project tracking and requirement documentation.
- Integration Leadership: Strong understanding of SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform), specifically the Integration Suite and API Management.
- Business Process Fluency: Deep knowledge in at least two core functional areas (e.g., Plan-to-Report Finance, Lead-to-Cash, or Source-to-Pay) to effectively lead Fit-to-Standard discussions.
Even better, you may have...
- S/4HANA implementation experience in a manufacturing or complex logistics environment.
- Experience standing up IT infrastructure or ERP systems for a new business unit or startup venture.
- Superb communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex technical risks and requirements into business impact for executive-level stakeholders.
You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is leadership level 6 and ranges from $115,500-$218,100.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.
For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL6
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week.
Company: As Ford establishes a wholly owned subsidiary focused on Battery Energy Storage Systems, this role will initially be employed by Ford and is expected to transition to the subsidiary within one year.
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