Associate Director, S4 HANA Data Transformation - EMEA Operations Cleanse

Introduction to role:
Are you ready to lead the data cleanse that powers a flagship SAP S/4HANA transformation and shapes how medicines move from development to patients? This role sits at the heart of a multi-year enterprise change, creating a common data spine and real-time insights that enable faster, smarter decisions across our supply chain.

You will own the EMEA Operations cleanse for critical data objects—such as Material Master, Purchase Info Records, Purchase Orders, Bills of Material, and Equipment—ensuring they are accurate, complete, and migration-ready. Can you translate complex data issues into clear actions and guide cross-functional teams to outcomes that stand up to the rigour of a global cutover?

Accountabilities:

• Cleanse execution and cutover readiness: Lead the end-to-end cleanse for assigned Operations data objects to meet SAP S/4HANA migration quality thresholds; resolve issues quickly to protect timeline and scope.

• Scope definition and governance: Define and document cleanse scope, methodology, deliverables, and governance; establish ways of working that bring local markets, data services, and technology partners together around one plan.

• Data quality management for business impact: Profile, interrogate, and validate data; implement controls and monitoring that surface risks early and ensure defects do not propagate into production processes.

• Prioritization and transparent reporting: Sequence delivery across objects and markets; provide clear, concise status updates with risks, dependencies, and mitigations that enable significant steering.

• Best practice acceleration: Leverage data management standards and expert communities to reuse methods, templates, and tooling; shorten cycle times while raising quality.

• Stakeholder leadership: Build trusted relationships with warehouse, supply chain, and procurement stakeholders; coordinate across local teams and global program streams to align decisions and land change effectively.

• Broader impact: In the near term, achieve a clean first migration; over time, embed sustainable data ownership and controls that improve planning, procurement, production, and reporting performance.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Education and experience: Degree in Engineering or equivalent, with relevant SAP experience and subject matter expertise in Operations objects and processes, particularly logistics and procurement.

• SAP proficiency: Demonstrable working knowledge of SAP transactions and reporting, with understanding of data integration across SAP architectures.

• Transformation leadership: Proven experience leading complex data quality/data migration initiatives within large-scale transformation programs.

• Global collaboration: Experience working in diverse, global teams across functions and cultures.

• Influence and negotiation: Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and lead negotiations to target outcomes.

• Delivery focus: Proven track record of prioritizing effectively to achieve goals and outcomes; demonstrated project leadership skills.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Hands-on experience delivering SAP S/4HANA migrations (greenfield or brownfield) in multi-country, large-scale environments.

• Familiarity with SAP MDG, SAP Data Services, Information Steward, or comparable ETL and data quality platforms.

• Exposure to pharmaceutical, biopharma, or other regulated manufacturing supply chains.

• Practical knowledge of data controls design, issue triage, and dashboarding for ongoing data quality monitoring.

• Experience with cutover planning, mock conversions, and hypercare for ERP deployments.

• Understanding of EMEA procurement, manufacturing, and equipment data nuances and related compliance considerations.

• Ability to coach data stewards and embed sustainable data ownership models.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here, data excellence directly supports the science that changes lives. You will help build the digital backbone of a global organization, uniting standardized processes and a common data model to improve how we plan, source, make, and deliver medicines. Expect to work with cutting-edge platforms and pragmatic experts—engineers, scientists, analysts, and operators—often in the same room pushing bold ideas into action. We value kindness alongside ambition, giving you the support to take on a transformation of rare scale while leaving a lasting, measurable legacy for colleagues and patients.

Call to Action:
Lead the cleanse that unlocks our next-generation platform and shape how life-changing medicines reach patients across EMEA—step forward and make your impact today!

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