ERP Transformations Director (Manufacturing) - Amsterdam

A leading manufacturing organisation is seeking an experienced ERP Transformation Director to provide strategic leadership throughout a major Oracle-to-SAP migration programme. The role will serve as the senior technology and business transformation lead, ensuring the future SAP landscape supports manufacturing operations, supply chain processes, and long-term business objectives. The successful candidate will act as the bridge between executive leadership, operational stakeholders, and programme delivery teams while overseeing governance, business process alignment, and ERP transformation execution.

Key responsibilities include leading the end-to-end Oracle-to-SAP transformation strategy across manufacturing and corporate functions; defining and driving the ERP programme roadmap, governance structure, and key milestones; partnering with business leaders across manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, logistics, finance, and IT; ensuring SAP solution design supports critical operational processes and business objectives; overseeing programme risks, dependencies, resource planning, and executive reporting; managing relationships with SAP implementation partners, system integrators, and third-party vendors; driving alignment between enterprise architecture, business process transformation, and ERP deployment activities; providing leadership across data migration, integrations, reporting, security, and operational readiness workstreams; supporting change management and business adoption initiatives; and reporting regularly to programme sponsors and steering committees.

Required experience includes extensive experience leading large-scale ERP transformation programmes; proven delivery experience with SAP S/4HANA implementations and migrations; hands-on experience in Oracle-to-SAP transformation environments; strong understanding of manufacturing operations, supply chain management, procurement, warehousing, and production planning processes; experience operating at Director, Head of Enterprise Applications, Head of Business Systems, or Technology Transformation leadership level; strong stakeholder management skills with experience interacting with executive leadership teams; experience managing large-scale systems integrators and offshore delivery teams; and demonstrated ability to deliver complex business and technology transformation programmes.

Preferred experience includes discrete manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, engineering, chemicals, life sciences, or consumer products experience; knowledge of SAP Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Logistics modules; experience with global template deployments and multi-country rollouts; and familiarity with target operating model design and business process harmonisation. The ideal candidate is a strategic ERP transformation leader with strong business acumen, deep understanding of manufacturing and supply chain processes, executive-level communication skills, results-focused with strong programme leadership capabilities, and comfortable operating in matrix and international environments.