Nick F.-SAP Senior Program Manager and Business Architect

Leading public Cloud Projects hands on. Develop the German market for SAP consulting company Inxap focused on edge technologies.

• Built and expanded INXAP's SAP consulting presence in the German market, focusing on AI, automation, IoT, and next-generation financial process technologies.
• Advised CIOs, CFOs, and IT leadership teams on SAP strategy, digital transformation, and Center of Excellence (CoE) operating models.
• Led executive-level engagements, shaping solution roadmaps and driving high-value SAP S/4HANA, SAP Public Cloud and financial process automation initiatives.
• Developed and negotiated strategic deals, ensuring alignment with corporate IT priorities and delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Positioned INXAP as a trusted partner for edge technologies by translating complex innovations into actionable enterprise use cases.
• Built relationships with key stakeholders across corporate IT, enabling long-term partnerships and repeat business.
• Identified market opportunities, crafted go-to-market strategies, and represented INXAP in executive discussions with German enterprises.
• Coordinated cross-border collaboration with Swiss leadership to align offerings, delivery models, and client acquisition strategies.

• Lead presales engagements and architect tailored S/4HANA rollout solutions for digital transformation initiatives

• Act as Program Manager and Enterprise Architect, leading numerous client workshops throughout S/4HANA transformation initiatives

• Design and staff large-scale template and worldwide rollouts for S/4HANA transformation in large multinational organizations

• Lead customer workshops with C-Level executives

• Serve as primary project liaison with senior executives, leading the executive steering committee

• Bridge project and customer leadership, reporting project status during executive steering committees

• Maintain leadership and commitment throughout the program lifecycle

• Advocate program imperatives and coach client sponsors

• Drive program ownership and oversee business teams across all streams

• Assume full accountability for program success and benefit realization

• Contribute to project management plans, defining organization, governance structure, escalation process, tools and methods, communication plans, and stakeholder engagement

• Manage interdependence with other projects, addressing risks, staffing conflicts, and scope management

• Act as enterprise architect providing end-to-end solutions with focus on financials

• Lead customer workshops to explore financial solutions and integrate them within S/4HANA and with external applications

• Lead realize sprints in financial FICO scope, overseeing testing, data migration, and cutover

• Successfully led digitalization initiatives reducing TCO

• Hired and developed outstanding project managers, increasing efficiency

• Achieved high client satisfaction and exceeded business expectations

• Develop project management plans, define governance structure, establish project escalation processes, methods, tools, communication procedures, reporting standards, and stakeholder engagement

• Own consulting partner project plan for customer projects

• Manage project governance, scope, costs, resources, and communication; ensure day-to-day delivery of program scope, deliverables, timeline, and quality

• Oversee RACI, escalation of risks and issues, staffing conflicts, and scope management

• Work with clients to establish change control procedures

• Ensure successful overall delivery of SAP projects with customer IT project managers and business captains

• Acquire, manage, and coordinate projects within large European companies in BI, process harmonization, and SAP implementations

• Lead client transitions to offshoring, establishing 24/7 AMS support with meaningful reporting and SLAs

• Build and lead globally distributed and culturally diverse project teams

• Coach clients towards successful offshoring transitions

• Optimized program quality, significantly reducing TCO

• Developed strategic and operational dashboards with global quality KPIs, massively optimizing purchasing with SAP BI technology

• Increased efficiency through standardization and innovative technologies

• Achieved substantial increase in client satisfaction with IT services

• Established reputation as a one-stop-shop supplier in BI for a major customer

• Successfully transitioned IT services offshore and arranged and monitored SLAs for a large pharmaceutical company

• Completed a large-scale transformation with SAP rollout and process optimization for a leading European publishing house

• Focus on SAP ERP financials and business process optimization

• Own overall solution and integration of financials for entire program

• Govern integration meetings within project governance

• Lead design of SAP application landscape and organizational structure

• Provide solution expertise across all lifecycle stages: design, implementation, configuration, quality assurance, application support, and enhancement

• Translate business requirements into specifications for R/3 implementation

• Support collaboration between IT partners and business stakeholders

• Understand current and future processes, review business processes and map into IT architecture

• Lead business design of end-to-end processes in the financial stream

• Drive team of process leads acting as business process owners

• Optimize end-to-end processes and integrate management information systems across Europe

• Managed project teams of approximately 40 people in 17 countries, achieving exceptional results

• Optimized consolidating financial reporting

• Reduced TCO in IS and increased customer confidence

• Increased efficiency through harmonization and standardization