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The role:
The Head of SAP will be a commercially driven leader who owns and grows nxzen’s SAP capability with a focus on new business development, market share expansion, and strategic positioning in the SAP ecosystem.
This senior leadership role combines SAP domain knowledge (particularly S/4HANA), go-to-market strategy, client engagement, and practice scaling across regulated sectors such as energy, utilities, infrastructure, and critical national infrastructure.
Key responsibilities:
The Head of SAP will lead the definition and execution of nxzen’s SAP growth strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business expansion and revenue targets. Own the SAP go-to-market approach, including design of service offerings, pricing models, market positioning, and sales enablement activities. Govern a portfolio of large SAP programmes and strategic accounts, balancing revenue growth with delivery quality, risk management, and commercial performance.
Build and maintain trusted relationships with C suite and senior client stakeholders, acting as an executive sponsor across complex, multi-programme SAP portfolios and ensuring consistent standards, governance, and value realisation. Establish, scale, and lead nxzen’s SAP practice with a strong focus on capability development, quality of delivery, and commercially sound outcomes.
Stay closely aligned to SAP product roadmaps and innovation, translating ecosystem developments into differentiated, client-relevant propositions. Own and nurture strategic partnerships with SAP, hyperscalers (Azure, AWS, GCP), and specialist partners to strengthen nxzen’s SAP market position and extend solution breadth.
Strategy & Commercial Growth:
- Build and manage a strong SAP sales pipeline, supporting bids, proposals, and commercial negotiations
- Identify new market opportunities and strategic accounts to grow nxzen’s SAP footprint
- Act as the senior SAP representative externally, raising nxzen’s profile with clients, partners, and industry forums
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Client Leadership & Business Development:
- Drive account expansion through cross-sell and up-sell of SAP services
- Build trusted relationships with senior cxo level stakeholder
- Provide executive oversight across complex, multi-programme SAP portfolios
- Influence client SAP strategy through thought leadership and advisory-led engagements
Practice Leadership & Capability Growth:
- Build, scale, and lead nxzen’s SAP practice with a strong focus on capability, quality, and commercial outcomes
- Define core SAP offerings, accelerators, delivery approaches, and reference architectures
- Lead recruitment, capability development, and succession planning for the SAP practice
Strategic Alignment & Ecosystem Engagement:
- Maintain a strong understanding of SAP product roadmaps and innovation, translating them into client-relevant propositions
- Own strategic relationships with SAP, hyperscalers (Azure, AWS, GCP), and niche partners
- Drive joint go-to-market initiatives and partner-led opportunities
- Position nxzen as a differentiated SAP partner within the utilities and regulated industries market
What we’re looking for:
We are looking for a senior SAP leader with a background in large consultancies or global system integrators, who has successfully owned and governed substantial SAP portfolios across multiple clients and programmes. You will bring a strong commercial mindset, with clear evidence of driving business development, building pipeline, and growing key accounts.
Your expertise will span SAP S/4HANA, RISE with SAP, cloud deployment models, and integration patterns, underpinned by a career that has progressed through hands-on SAP delivery roles. You will be highly credible in programme governance, SDLC, and project management, with the ability to oversee complex, multi-team delivery landscapes.
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Experience in regulated or asset-intensive sectors such as energy, utilities, or infrastructure is important, along with a track record of achieving strong commercial outcomes and client satisfaction. You will be a confident communicator at executive level, able to influence C-suite stakeholders and shape strategic SAP transformation agendas.
- Full P&L ownership experience, including revenue, margin, utilisation, cost management and investment decisions for an SAP or enterprise applications practice
- Experience scaling or transforming SAP practices in high-growth or turnaround environments
- Strong understanding of SAP Finance and/or Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
- Established network within the SAP ecosystem and hyperscale partners
- Growth-oriented, commercially astute, and market-driven
- Strategic thinker who can connect SAP roadmap, client needs, and business outcomes
- Credible, calm, and persuasive at the executive level
- Collaborative leader who builds high-performing teams and future leaders
- Comfortable operating in an entrepreneurial, high-ambition environment
Why join us?
Nxzen is a diverse organisation and understands everyone has different needs and many of our employees enjoy flexible working enabling them to deliver results whilst having a good work life balance. Our hybrid working model allows for flexibility in working from home for up to two days per week, once you have settled into your role, with three days per week working with the team in our bright open plan offices in Solihull.
Benefits and perks:
- Bonus
- Enhanced Maternity Pay
- Signed the menopause pledge
- EV scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- X4 salary for death in service
- Private healthcare (for level 3+)
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holiday
- LinkedIn learning
- Free parking
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