Senior Director - SAP Platform Operations

Company Description
H&M Group is on a journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today and tomorrow. Through collaboration, innovation, and technology we challenge ourselves and the industry. To cater to the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, our tech organisation delivers solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
We are accelerating digitalisation and to stay relevant, we need to ensure we have strong leaders in place to bring our best capabilities, innovation ideas and talented technologists to support the transformation of H&M Group. 


Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Director for SAP Platform Operations. You will be a decision maker and help shape the future together with us from an engineering standpoint. This involves you leading, developing, and implementing our technology strategy.
About the role
As a part of this transformation, we are now looking for a Senior Director- SAP Platform Operations. In this role you will be responsible for leading a team and business critical solutions for H&M Group.
As a leader for SAP Platform Operations team, you will:
· Have end to end operational responsibility for the global, core SAP platform
· Have end to end responsibility for WRICEF, BASIS, Infrastructure, Functional areas, automated testing, R&A, DR, problem management and Quality assurance
· Ensure the entire ecosystem of SAP solutions and peripheral technologies are orchestrated to deliver the needs of the business in all aspects including functionality and availability
· Build a global, multiskilled , diverse team of leaders and specialists
· Build and nurture an ecosystem of partners to collaborate for the successful operation of the entire SAP platform
· Ensure teams create/maintain conceptual, logical, and detailed SAP Platform/Service Architecture while meeting security and operational requirements
· Push for automation and innovation on SAP Platform area
· Responsible for revenue and cost drivers of SAP


Requirements
We think you have strong leadership skills and believe in a culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust. You empower others to fail, learn, grow and celebrate success as much as failure. You can communicate a technical vision to a variety of team members and has the ability to embrace & reduce uncertainty through continuous validated learning.
You are a visionary leader that coaches and empower your colleagues with the most relevant competencies so they can lead, collaborate, and deliver exceptional customer and business results.


Qualifications
· 10+ years operational experience in platform engineering, development, and delivery
· 7+ years of people management experience building strong teams and managing managers
· Strong experience building and managing development teams that design and deliver large distributed systems
· Several years of experience in SAP architecture, technical project management, digital delivery, software development or technology consulting
· Experience building and leading cloud-native architectures including cloud-specific deployments for major platforms
· Experience with framing transformation projects: defining the ecosystem roles, defining the implementation strategy
· Experience running 24/7 high-availability operations on a global scale
· Experience in at least 2 areas of the following:
o ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, MS Dynamics, Oracle)
o Digital Commerce platforms (e.g., SAP CX)
o Defining target architectures that include SAP solutions


Additional Information
Working with tech at H&M Group
Shaping the future of fashion with people, data, and tech. The fashion and retail industries are going through a transformation, driven by customers' technology and sustainability expectations. At H&M Group, we want to shape the future of fashion and lifestyle by harnessing the power of smart tech and data. With our 74-year history of innovation, we understand the need to collaborate and co-create with engineers and tech specialists around the world to achieve our vision.
What we offer!
You are joining a unique value-driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself. Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. There are endless opportunities to experiment and grow in any direction that you want, and when you grow, we grow. Being a major player gives us countless opportunities to make a real impact and shape the future.
For this role we are looking for people that can work from either of our tech locations as Atlanta, Stockholm and Bangalore. This role is open to applicants from all Tech locations to apply.
Sounds interesting?
Send us your application with CV. Last day of application is 2022-12-18 but we look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible.
For questions regarding the position please send an email to talent acquisition specialist shriti.shetty@hm.com
We do not accept applications through email due to GDPR
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