What you'll do
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Own the company-wide implementation and operation of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition, from fit-to-standard design and configuration through testing, migration, deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.
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Define the future-state business processes that will underpin Hypersonica’s operations across finance, procurement, supplier management, inventory, warehousing, manufacturing, quality, maintenance, sales, and logistics.
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Act as the single point of accountability for the SAP programme, owning the roadmap, delivery plan, implementation partners, critical decisions, dependencies, risks, and business readiness.
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Translate complex and often incomplete operational requirements into scalable, standardised SAP processes that support speed, traceability, and production readiness.
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Build the master data, governance, access, approval, and reporting structures required to make SAP the company’s operational source of truth.
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Own the implementation of serial and batch traceability, production orders, inventory control, quality records, procurement workflows, and other controls required for high-consequence hardware manufacturing.
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Lead system integration between SAP and Hypersonica’s wider technology environment, including engineering, manufacturing, HR, CRM, reporting, identity, document management, and other business-critical platforms.
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Own the rollout and optimisation of associated SAP products, including SAP Sales Cloud and SAP SuccessFactors, where they support the wider business systems architecture.
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Establish the SAP operating model, including process owners, super users, training, support, release management, regression testing, issue escalation, and continuous improvement.
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Drive adoption across the business, ensuring teams use the system correctly and that parallel spreadsheets, disconnected workflows, and unofficial sources of truth are removed.
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Build clear programme and systems reporting for leadership, including implementation progress, adoption, data quality, risks, control gaps, and business outcomes.
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Select and manage implementation partners and software vendors, ensuring they deliver against Hypersonica’s pace, quality bar, and operational requirements.
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Ensure business systems remain secure, controlled, audit-ready, and aligned with relevant quality, financial, security, and regulatory expectations.
Who you are
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A senior SAP or enterprise systems leader with a proven record of implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Public Edition across a complex physical-product business.
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You have led a major ERP implementation end to end, not simply supported one module or maintained an already mature system.
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Experienced across multiple operational domains, ideally including manufacturing, procurement, inventory, warehousing, finance, quality, maintenance, and supply chain.
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Strong in business process design and able to turn fragmented company practices into coherent, scalable operating processes.
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Deeply familiar with fit-to-standard implementation and confident challenging executives and functional leaders when unnecessary customisation creates long-term risk.
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Comfortable owning implementation partners, programme plans, budgets, dependencies, data migration, testing, training, cutover, and business adoption.
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Able to operate credibly with both senior leadership and functional users, translating between operational needs, system architecture, and implementation reality.
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Technically literate across integrations, APIs, identity and access, master data, permissions, reporting, and business application architecture.
What we offer
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A mission-driven environment with the opportunity to work on one of Europe’s most consequential defence challenges, with direct impact on sovereign capability and security.
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Daily collaboration with leading experts across engineering, operations, business development, and defence, with genuine opportunities to learn, contribute, and grow.
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Exposure to the full lifecycle of complex defence programmes, from customer requirements and commercial strategy through to engineering delivery and flight testing.
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High ownership and autonomy: no time tracking and no micromanagement, just clear objectives and accountability for outcomes.
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A fast-paced environment where good ideas are implemented quickly and feedback from testing and flight drives real decisions.
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A culture that values clarity, integrity, and excellence, and supports people who take initiative and push boundaries responsibly.
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Competitive compensation and real share options aligned with responsibility and impact, not tenure or hierarchy.