SAP S/4HANA Business Process & Adoption Lead - Procure-to-PayLocation: Alpharetta, GARole Summary We are seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA P2P Transformation Lead to support a large-scale global ERP transformation initiative. This role serves as the critical bridge between business stakeholders, system integrators, and project leadership-guiding decisions on how best to align SAP standard capabilities with business processes across the Procure-to-Pay lifecycle (Requisition 12 Purchase Order 12 Goods Receipt 12 Invoice Approval).
Serve as the primary business representative for Procure-to-Pay process design, solution validation, user readiness, and adoption during the SAP S/4HANA greenfield implementation. Partner closely with IT, system integrator teams, and business stakeholders to ensure SAP standard processes are understood, adopted, and translated into practical business operations.
Act as a change champion and super user for the business before, during, and after go-live.
This is a highly visible role requiring both deep functional expertise and strong executive communication skills to drive alignment, influence decisions, and ensure a successful implementation and stabilization. This is not a remote role-must be within driving distance to Alpharetta, Georgia.
Key Responsibilities - Translate technical configuration questions into clear business decisions
- Ensure scalable, compliant, and maintainable process design
- Identify and engage stakeholders across Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, and IT
- Participate in workshops and decision forums
- Influence senior leaders and build cross-functional consensus
- Partner with system integrator to validate functional design
- Participate in cross-functional System Integration Testing (SIT) and define test scenarios
- Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and write test scripts for users
- Support deployment into Buyer teams and/or Procurement COE
- Provide continuity post go-live and support stabilization
- Provide recommendations for organization structure requirements to support the ERP
- Gather, document, and validate business requirements, process gaps, and functional needs across the P2P lifecycle.
- Review and validate solution designs proposed by IT and/or the system integrator to ensure alignment with business requirements and operational realities.
- Support fit-to-standard workshops and help drive business decisions required for SAP S/4HANA design.
- Lead or heavily participate in User Acceptance Testing, including test scenario development, test script execution, defect triage, and business sign-off.
- Coordinate business user participation in testing, training, cutover readiness, and hypercare support.
- Develop training materials, job aids, and process documentation in partnership with project and change management teams.
- Conduct or support end-user training for procurement, finance, supply chain, and related business users.
- Serve as a post-implementation super user, providing first-line business support, issue triage, and continuous improvement feedback.
- Help identify change impacts, readiness risks, and adoption barriers across affected business teams.
Required Qualifications - 8-15+ years of SAP Procure-to-Pay (P2P) experience
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA (required) and SAP Fiori (required)
- Experience with SAP ECC / R3 P2P (preferred)
- Strong knowledge of requisitioning, purchase orders, goods receipt, invoice processing, and vendor management
- Proven experience supporting ERP transformations, UAT, and go-live
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
- Hands-on experience serving as a business lead, super user, process owner, or functional SME on an SAP implementation.
- Demonstrated experience with business requirements gathering, process validation, UAT execution, and end-user training.
- Strong understanding of how business process decisions translate into SAP capabilities, controls, reporting, and user experience.
- Ability to work effectively with IT, system integrators, business stakeholders, and end users.
- Strong facilitation skills with the ability to lead workshops, training sessions, and business readiness discussions.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience working on system implementation projects with experience working with internal & external IT resources.
- Familiarity with SAP Activate methodology
- Experience in Procurement, shared services or Procurement COE environments
- Experience in source to pay platforms like Ariba or Coupa preferred
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA greenfield implementations.
- Experience with change management, business readiness, cutover, and hypercare activities.
- Prior experience as an SAP super user, process owner, business process lead, or functional lead within Procurement or Source-to-Pay.
- Experience developing SOPs, work instructions, training guides, and business process documentation.
