Business Integration Manager

The Business Integration Manager (m/f/d) plays a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless design, alignment, and integration of business processes and IT templates within a large-scale SAP S/4HANA business transformation program. This role ensures that end-to-end processes flow consistently across functions, geographies, and systems, while safeguarding standardization, template adherence, and future scalability. The Business Integration Manager (m/f/d) will act as a key liaison between Global Process Owners, Process owners, Solution Architects, and technical teams, ensuring a harmonized, value-driven transformation.

Integration & Process Design

• Ensure end-to-end business processes are consistently defined, integrated, and aligned across functions (Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sales, Procurement, etc.).

• Drive the design and maintenance of a global IT template that balances standardization with local requirements.

• Facilitate integration design workshops, ensuring cross-functional dependencies are captured and resolved (e.g. Intercompany Processes, Triangular Business, etc.).

• Safeguard adherence to SAP S/4HANA best practices and industry-leading process models.

Governance & Alignment

• Define and enforce integration governance standards, methodologies, and tools for the transformation program.

• Ensure consistency and compliance of all process and IT template decisions with program objectives.

• Serve as a gatekeeper for design decisions, ensuring alignment with business strategy, architecture principles, and regulatory requirements.

• Coordinate with the Program Management Office (PMO) to ensure risks, issues, and interdependencies are tracked and managed.

• Support  UAT scenario development.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary integration counterpart for business process owners, solution architects, and system integrators.

• Facilitate alignment between business teams, IT, and external partners to ensure seamless design and execution.

• Translate business requirements into integrated process and system designs, balancing technical feasibility and business value.

• Communicate integration impacts, dependencies, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders and program leadership.

Quality & Delivery Assurance

• Monitor integration deliverables to ensure timely and high-quality outputs across process and IT design streams.

• Oversee testing strategy related to end-to-end process integration (SIT, UAT, regression, cutover).

• Drive resolution of integration-related defects and issues, ensuring accountability across teams.

• Ensure documentation and knowledge transfer of integration design and decisions.

Change Management

• Provide input for process- level change impact analysis.

• Work closely with OCM to design training,communication and adoption plan.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.

• At least 10 years of professional experience in business transformation, ERP implementation, or large-scale IT programs.

• At least 5 years of experience specifically in SAP ERP programs, ideally with SAP S/4HANA.

• Proven track record in Business Integration Management, process harmonization, and IT template governance.

• Strong understanding of cross-functional processes (Lead-to-Cash, Purchase-to-Pay, Record-to-Decide, Plan-to-Produce, etc.).

• Experience working in global, complex, multi-entity organizations.

• Familiarity with agile/hybrid delivery models and program management methodologies.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong problem-solving and conflict-resolution capabilities.

• Ability to visualize, analyze, and integrate end-to-end flows across business domains.

• Capable of aligning diverse stakeholders behind common integration objectives.

• Structured approach to managing complex dependencies and risks.

• Ability to support business readiness and adoption during transformation.

• Balancing quality, speed, and stakeholder needs in a high-pressure environment