VP, Enterprise Transformation & SAP

VP, Enterprise Transformation & SAP

The VP, Enterprise Transformation & SAP is a senior executive role at the center of HARMAN Automotive's transformation agenda. HARMAN Automotive is a $6+ billion business with considerable organic and inorganic growth expected over the next five years and an ambition to approximately double the business. Digital transformation, with AI as a core enabler, is a Board-level mandate and central to enabling that growth. SAP S/4HANA is a foundational core platform in HARMAN's digital automotive ecosystem.

The global SAP S/4HANA transformation spans a single Automotive division instance serving approximately 10,000 users across 10 plants and more than 30 entities. Integration Testing Round 1 and Data Migration Testing Round 1 are complete. The immediate mandate is to lead the two remaining testing cycles and corresponding data-migration validation, business-readiness end-to-end testing, cutover and business continuity planning and execution, and the January 2027 go-live and stabilization. This is a multi-year mandate extending through post-go-live value realization, Finance Digital leadership, major acquisition integration, SAP RISE, and the continued evolution of SAP as a strategic enterprise platform.

Reporting to the VP, Automotive Digital and serving on the Digital Automotive Leadership Council (D-ALC), this executive will be a key partner to Automotive and functional business leaders in shaping the broader Automotive Transformation agenda - influencing how processes, data, operating models, AI, and digital capabilities evolve as the business grows. The role also serves as the Digital executive leader for Finance processes. For an established SAP leader, this is an opportunity to take an advanced global transformation through its defining delivery moments and shape the next wave of business transformation, integration, and digital growth.

This role will lead a Finance Processes Digital organization of approximately 30 people. In parallel, the leader will orchestrate major transformation programs through a matrixed structure approaching 300 people. This extended transformation organization includes internal technical experts from multiple Digital teams, business process leaders, data team members, external experts and systems integrators, and program managers. Success requires leading through both organizational accountability and broad enterprise influence.

What You Will Do

• Own the integrated program plan, executive governance, risk management, quality, budget, and business outcomes from the current test phase through go-live and stabilization.
• Lead the two remaining testing cycles with clear entry and exit criteria, disciplined defect management, retesting, traceability, dependency management, and executive readiness decisions.
• Drive subsequent data migration cycles, data quality, reconciliation, business validation, and final cutover migration readiness in close partnership with business and data owners.
• Lead business readiness end-to-end testing across critical enterprise processes, ensuring process integration, controls, user readiness, and business sign-off before production launch.
• Direct cutover planning and execution, including rehearsals, decision governance, business continuity planning, operational fallback scenarios, and coordinated business and technology command-center execution.
• Lead go-live, hyper care, and stabilization with a rigorous operating cadence for incident prioritization, defect closure, performance, business adoption, and transition to a sustainable SAP platform operating model.

SAP as a Core Platform for HARMAN's Digital Automotive Ecosystem

• Set the SAP platform strategy and roadmap so S/4HANA becomes a scalable, resilient core for HARMAN's broader digital automotive ecosystem and future growth.
• Champion architectural discipline, clean-core principles, integration standards, security, performance, resilience, and data governance so the platform can scale without accumulating avoidable complexity.
• Use the standardized processes and trusted data created through S/4HANA as a foundation for the next generation of digitalization - including AI, intelligent automation, advanced analytics, and increasingly autonomous business processes - across Finance and other core Automotive value streams.
• Own the post-go-live SAP operating model and continuous transformation roadmap, including governance, releases, platform evolution, service performance, and ongoing value realization.

Lead Major Acquisition Integration Planning and Execution

• Own the SAP and enterprise-application integration workstream for a major upcoming acquisition, from early planning through execution and transition to the target-state operating model.
• Align process and master-data harmonization, integration design, migration and cutover planning, testing, business readiness, and stabilization for the acquired organization.
• Partner across business value streams to manage S/4HANA integration risk while capturing scale, simplification, and synergy opportunities.

Lead SAP RISE Planning and Execution

• Define the strategy, business case, roadmap, and execution plan to transition HARMAN's SAP environment to SAP RISE, aligned to enterprise architecture, business priorities, and the broader Samsung cloud strategy.
• Lead the technical and operational migration plan, including target architecture, landscape strategy, integrations, security, resilience, performance, data, testing, cutover, and business continuity.
• Ensure the RISE transition improves scalability, speed, maintainability, and the ability to integrate future acquisitions and digital capabilities rather than simply moving the existing estate.

Finance Processes Digital Portfolio

• Serve as the Digital executive leader for Finance processes, partnering closely with CFO/Finance leadership and business process owners to define the digital strategy, investment priorities, operating model, and transformation roadmap.

What You Need

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology, digital transformation, or enterprise applications, including significant leadership responsibility for SAP programs and platforms.
• Proven executive accountability for a large, complex, global SAP S/4HANA transformation spanning multiple business functions, geographies, and stakeholder groups.
• Hands-on leadership experience through the delivery lifecycle - integrated testing, data migration, business readiness, cutover, go-live, hyper care, and stabilization.
• Deep business and process acumen across core enterprise value streams, with the ability to challenge process design and technology decisions based on business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to influence C-suite, senior Automotive business leaders, and executive peers; shape transformation priorities across organizational boundaries; make difficult readiness decisions; and lead effectively in a highly visible global program environment.
• Proven experience leading global organizations and highly matrixed transformation programs involving hundreds of contributors across business, technology, data, program management, systems integrators, and strategic partners.
• Demonstrated ability to connect enterprise platforms, trusted data, AI, intelligent automation, and analytics to measurable business transformation outcomes.
• Strong commercial and financial management experience, including multi-million-dollar budgets, vendor performance, forecasting, business cases, and measurable benefits realization.

What Is Nice to Have

• Experience leading SAP or enterprise-application integration for a major acquisition, merger, carve-in, or similarly complex business integration.
• Experience in automotive, manufacturing, industrial, or another complex global product business with demanding supply-chain and operational requirements.
• SAP architecture, program leadership, or relevant functional/technical certifications.

What Makes You Eligible

• Willing to travel up to 25% of the time
• Be willing to work in the Novi office 3 days per week
• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen

What We Offer

• Access to employee discounts on HARMAN/Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG etc.)
• Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University's business and leadership academies
• Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work life integration and collaboration in a global environment
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters professional and personal development
• Tuition Reimbursement
• "Be Brilliant" employee recognition and rewards program

Pay Transparency $ 232,500 - $ 341,000 Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation are also available, such as bonuses or commission. Pay is based on a wide range of factors, including, without limitation, skill set, experience, training, location, and business need. While the above range is a reasonable estimate of the wage range for this position, please note the disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential associated with the location where the position may be filled.

HARMAN is interested in the health and wellbeing of you and your family and offers a range of benefits designed to support your needs for holistic wellbeing. Benefits and perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with HARMAN