Vice President – SAP Practice

Location: Kaduwela, Onsite

About Client Partner

Our client is one of Sri Lanka’s premier, highly celebrated manufacturing and FMCG corporate conglomerates, renowned for its heritage, expansive market presence, and world-class supply chain and operational frameworks. To fuel its next era of enterprise modernization, operational excellence, and business agility, the corporate leadership is making substantial strategic investments in digital transformation, establishing SAP as the organization’s central digital core and single source of truth.

About the Role

The Vice President – SAP Practice is an executive technology leadership position reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Accountable for defining and executing the enterprise ERP vision, roadmap, governance, and operating model, this leader will act as a trusted strategic advisor to executive leadership across the Group. Owning the complete SAP lifecycle from strategy, architecture, and program execution through to governance, continuous improvement, and AI/automation integration, the VP will serve as an enterprise problem solver, ensuring SAP continuously drives operational excellence, control effectiveness, and measurable business value.

Responsibilities

ERP Strategy & Digital Core Leadership: Define and execute the enterprise SAP strategy and multi-year roadmap; establish SAP as the organization's single source of truth; lead ERP governance forums and strategic modernization investments.
Business Partnership & Value Realization: Partner closely with business leaders across verticals to understand operational challenges, translate requirements into scalable SAP-enabled solutions, and take end-to-end accountability for business outcomes and ROI.
Enterprise Process Excellence: Drive process standardization and harmonization across core functions including Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Record-to-Report (R2R), Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sales, and Shared Services.
Delivery & Program Execution: Oversee all SAP projects, implementations, upgrades, rollouts, integrations, release management, and hypercare activities to ensure on-time, on-budget, and high-quality delivery.
Operations & Service Excellence: Own SAP application support, service delivery, SLA performance, incident trends, and proactive root-cause problem management to ensure high availability and operational reliability.
Data Governance, Controls & Compliance: Establish robust enterprise master data governance, ensure data integrity across processes, strengthen SAP workflows and segregation of duties (SoD), and uphold strict regulatory and audit compliance.
AI, Automation & Innovation: Embed AI, digital capabilities, and automation within the ERP ecosystem to streamline support, knowledge management, and repetitive operational tasks.
Vendor & Partner Governance: Manage strategic relationships with SAP, implementation partners, AMS providers, and external technology vendors, governing performance through strict SLAs and KPIs.
Team Leadership & Capability Building: Build, mentor, and elevate a high-performing ERP organization with a culture rooted in accountability, customer focus, and continuous capability development.

Requirements

Academic Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, or a related field. Master’s Degree or MBA is highly preferred.
Certifications: Recognized SAP professional certifications are preferred.
Professional Experience: 12 to 15+ years of progressive ERP leadership experience, with at least 5 years in a senior executive ERP leadership capacity.
Domain & System Mastery: Proven track record of leading large-scale SAP transformation programs, with deep exposure to SAP S/4HANA and enterprise business processes within manufacturing, FMCG, or supply chain environments.
Partner & Delivery Management: Strong experience managing complex multi-vendor ecosystems, AMS partners, and multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
Leadership Capabilities: Exceptional strategic thinking, executive stakeholder management, business acumen, process design expertise, and board-level communication skills.

Benefits

A highly competitive executive remuneration package.
High-impact strategic leadership exposure within a premier manufacturing and corporate icon in Sri Lanka.
The opportunity to lead enterprise-scale SAP modernization and digital transformation initiatives.

Vice President - SAP Practice