McLaren Automotive Ltd
SAP Sales, Service & VMS Solution Architect
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The SAP Sales, Service & VMS Solution Architect is responsible for shaping, designing and governing end-to-end SAP solutions supporting McLaren's Commercial business unit, covering the lifecycle of vehicles, from sales planning, order management and fulfilment, intercompany sales, vehicle distribution and service.
The role ensures McLaren's SAP landscape supports vehicle traceability, customer fulfilment, operational efficiency and standardisation whilst enabling the transition to SAP S/4HANA and maintaining clean core principles.
The role requires deep expertise across SAP Sales & Distribution (SD), SAP Customer Service (CS), SAP Vehicle Management System (VMS) for automotive, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable, supportable and integrated SAP solutions aligned to SAP Automotive best practice.
Scope of the Role
- SAP ECC EHP8
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP VMS
- SAP Fiori
- SAP BTP
- Relevant integration capabilities
- Vehicle Sales
- Vehicle Ordering
- Vehicle Allocation
- Vehicle Lifecycle Management
- Pricing & Commercials
- Dealer & Distributor Processes (intercompany sales)
- Vehicle Logistics & Delivery
- Customer Service (service orders)
- Order-to-Cash
- Variant Configuration Integration
- Vehicle Master Data
- Integration with SAP modules (MM, PP, FI, VC) and external PLM, CRM, MES, 3PL solutions
What You'll Do
Solution Design & Architecture
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, commercial processes and operational challenges.
- Design end-to-end SAP solutions for processes for the scoped domains.
- Define scalable, fit-to-standard solutions leveraging SAP best practices and clean core principles.
- Produce solution blueprints, process designs, architecture documents, both challenging and guiding SI partners.
- Ensure solutions support future S/4HANA adoption and business growth / efficiency targets.
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Migration & Modernisation
- Provide guidance on S/4HANA capabilities including embedded analytics, Fiori and automation opportunities.
- Support transformation roadmaps that balance business value, operational risk, technical debt reduction and adoption readiness.
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Delivery & Quality Assurance
Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory
What You'll Bring
- Extensive experience as an SAP Solution Lead and Architect, within the stated domains, in complex automotive environments.
- Deep knowledge of SAP sales, distribution, vehicle management, customer service processes and integration with SAP modules (MM, PP, FI, VC) and external PLM, CRM, MES, 3PL solutions.
- Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior business and IT stakeholders.
- Experience defining and implementing SAP capabilities within the stated domains.
- Experience using SAP Activate, agile, hybrid-agile or waterfall delivery methods across full project lifecycles. embedded analytics, SAP Integration Suite and cloud integration patterns.
- Experience of familiarity with SAP Business Transformation Management capabilities; Cloud ALM, Signavio, WalkMe, and testing automation tools.
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What We'll Do for You
We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:
- Structured career development framework
- 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
- Enhanced company pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus award
- Private medical insurance and health cash plan
- Life assurance benefit
- Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- Generous parental leave policies
- A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
Who Are We?
No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.
It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks.
McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.
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