Location : This is a remote role, offering the flexibility to work virtually from anywhere within the UK.
Contract Type : Permanent
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Programme Director to lead the design and execution of our global SAP S/4HANA solution design and oversee deployments across markets. This role is accountable for end‑to‑end program planning, governance, and execution across technology workstreams, ensuring alignment with parallel business transformation initiatives and executive priorities.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience managing large, complex technology programs, strong stakeholder leadership skills, and the ability to operate confidently with executive leadership, business integrators, and systems integrators.
What You Will Be Doing
Program Leadership & Governance
- Own the integrated program plan for SAP S/4HANA global template design and phased country deployments
- Establish and manage program governance, cadence, risk management, and dependency tracking
- Drive disciplined execution across multiple workstreams, vendors, and geographies
Integration & Transformation Alignment
- Ensure tight integration between the SAP program and parallel business transformation initiatives (process, trading model, data, operating model, change)
- Manage cross‑program dependencies and sequencing to minimize delivery risk
- Partner with business and IT leaders to resolve scope, timeline, and prioritization conflicts
Executive & Stakeholder Management
- Provide concise, executive‑level updates on progress, risks, financials, and decision points
- Prepare materials for steering committees and executive sponsors
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on program status and trade‑offs
Vendor & Partner Management
- Serve as the liaison between internal teams, business integrator(s), and systems integrator(s)
- Hold delivery partners accountable to contractual commitments, milestones, and quality standards
- Coordinate across multiple vendors to ensure cohesive delivery and escalation resolution
Technology Program Focus
- Ensure strong alignment between business objectives and SAP S/4HANA technical design and deployment
- Oversee technical readiness, cutover planning, go‑live execution, and stabilization
- Promote standardization, reuse of the global template, and adherence to architectural principles
What You’ll Bring
- 10+ years of relevant experience managing large‑scale ERP or enterprise technology programs
- Proven leadership of SAP S/4HANA implementations, including global template design and multi‑country planning and rollout
- Strong background in technology‑led transformation programs
- Demonstrated experience working with systems integrators and business integrators
- Project management credentials (PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent)
- Experience operating within global, matrixed organizations
- Familiarity with SAP Activate and large SI delivery models
- Strong financial acumen related to program budgeting and forecasting
- Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity at scale
- Strong integration mindset across technology and business transformation
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% internationally
Additional Skills & Experience
- Exceptional communication and influencing skills at senior leadership, translating technical complexity into business outcome terms.
- Strategic thinker with an analytical, data-driven mindset.
- Ability to build credibility and trusted relationships across technology, product, and business functions.
- Skilled at navigating complex organisational structures and resolving competing priorities.
- Passionate about transformation, modernisation, and team development.
We Are RS
We’ve been solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.
Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.
We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world’s leading industries.
We’re looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact.
Rewards
Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.
Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:
- Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
- Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
- Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
- Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values
Ready to Make Amazing Happen?
Join c. 9,000 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.
Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.