VP Business Partnership & Process Excellence

Client of Michael Page

• Lead business partnership for the business, ensuring technology initiatives align with business priorities.
• Drive process excellence to standardise, optimise, and embed best practices.
• Govern demand intake, business case prioritisation, and SAP change/configuration management to ensure structured decision making.
• Champion continuous improvement, leveraging methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma to eliminate inefficiencies and drive innovation.
• Manage senior stakeholder engagement ensuring clear communication, alignment, and escalation management.
• Lead and develop teams across business partnership and process excellence, building a culture of delivery, collaboration and improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or related field (MBA preferred).
• Proven senior leadership experience (12 - 15 years) in process excellence, business transformation, or business partnership roles.
• At least 5 years working in an SAP environment (finance, retail, or O2C processes); SAP Signavio experience highly desirable.
• Strong track record in governing demand, portfolio prioritisation, and process redesign within complex organisations.
• Skilled in process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, or similar) with a record of delivering measurable outcomes.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience engaging 30-40 senior executives at C-suite/board level.
• Experienced people leader with the ability to build and mentor high-performing teams.

This is a high impact leadership role at the centre of a large scale transformation. You will shape how processes are designed and governed, ensure business IT alignment, and play a pivotal role in delivering measurable value from a large scale ERP transformation.