ByD Competence Center Team Leader
Role Overview
Lead logistics deployment of SAP S/4HANA across markets, supporting the transition from SAP ByD and ensuring readiness, adoption, implementation success, and stable operations.
Act as the logistics business owner for rollouts, connecting global programme teams, market leadership, logistics operations, and other functions.
Build sustainable capabilities, governance, and standardized ways of working to improve performance, data quality, and business value.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead logistics deployment of SAP S/4HANA across markets, supporting the transition from SAP ByD and ensuring readiness, adoption, implementation success, and stable operations.
Act as the logistics business owner for rollouts, connecting global programme teams, market leadership, logistics operations, and other functions.
Build sustainable capabilities, governance, and standardized ways of working to improve performance, data quality, and business value.
Key responsibilities
- Lead and coach the S/4HANA Logistics Competence Centre team and market deployment community; own rollout roadmap, priorities, resources, goals, and success measures.
- Represent logistics in programme governance and partner across process owners, IT, regional key users, and market leadership to align the global template with business needs.
- Assess readiness across processes, organization, data, integrations, testing, training, cutover, and operational continuity; manage design deviations through governance.
- Drive process design, testing, data validation, user acceptance, training, cutover preparation, go-live readiness, and post-go-live stabilization.
- Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and continuity measures; monitor adoption, compliance, data quality, performance, and value realization.
- Build market key-user and subject-matter-expert networks, report programme progress, and coordinate collaboration across logistics, sales, finance, IT, and other functions.
Experience and qualifications
- Strong end-to-end logistics and supply chain expertise, including understanding of SAP S/4HANA logistics processes.
- Proven experience leading complex business transformations, system implementations, or multi-market programmes.
- Strong project or programme management, change management, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to standardize processes while balancing global requirements and local market needs.
- University degree in a technical or business-related field; a master’s degree is a plus.
- Experience leading teams and/or complex cross-functional projects.
- Excellent English communication skills and understanding of business interdependencies across logistics, sales, marketing, finance, procurement, customer service, and IT.
Leadership and collaboration
- Able to influence, challenge, coach, and align stakeholders across functions and seniority levels.
- Comfortable in international, cross-functional environments and managing ambiguity and competing priorities.
- Results-oriented, pragmatic, resilient, and hands-on when needed; builds relationships, ownership, accountability, and sustainable change.
About Hilti
Hilti describes itself as a global construction innovation company with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries.
The company highlights learning, growth, inclusion, teamwork, and its purpose of making construction better.
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