Senior Manager, Transformation Architect

Role Overview

• Shape the future of finance within Innovative Medicine and make a direct impact on patient outcomes while driving operational excellence.
• Play a key role in ensuring the strategic vision is successfully executed, in reshaping the finance function to deliver long-term, sustainable growth for the IM business.
• Own and drive the global UAM technology and transformation road map in collaboration with global UAM pillars, regional teams, business partners, and enabling functions.
• Lead structured business requirements discovery for IMUAM by facilitating collaborative workshops and working sessions with different business, IT and compliance representatives.
• Translate global business requirements into technology-enabled UAM solutions in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Define requirements and roadmaps for new tools and automation, improving the quality, structure, and usability of UAM data.
• Establish data quality, completeness, ownership, and monitoring expectations for UAM.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies for the global UAM team through close collaboration with stakeholders.
• Define and build board level business cases, solution options, and adoption plans for new UAM tools and enhancements.
• Partner with other global UAM pillars to embed new technologies into daily ways of working.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or university-level qualification in a relevant field, such as Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 12 years’ relevant experience in international companies, including significant experience in business requirements management, User Access Management, data management or analytics, digital transformation, SAP security, governance, risk, compliance, global team collaboration, or large-scale technology implementation programs.
• Senior-level expertise in translating business, compliance, operational, and technology needs into clear requirements, solution concepts, roadmaps, and implementation plans in collaboration with global and regional teams.
• Proven experience assessing process and data dynamics across complex system landscapes, identifying data dependencies, ownership gaps, quality issues, reporting needs, and opportunities for standardization or automation.
• Advanced knowledge of SAP S/4HANA security concepts, SAP GRC Access Control, SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance, SoD analysis, critical access management, role and persona data, GRC master data, and access provisioning processes.
• Experience introducing or implementing new technologies, automation, analytics, workflow solutions, reporting capabilities, or identity governance tools in a global business or IT environment.
• Strong understanding of UAM data objects and data flows, including personas, roles, users, user-to-role mapping, organizational restrictions, single and cross system SoD rulesets, SoD results, critical access, mitigating controls, and reporting outputs.
• Strong understanding of compliance requirements such as SOX, GxP, IT controls, data privacy, audit readiness, and regulated pharmaceutical operating environments.
• Experience designing or improving data governance routines, data quality controls, process taxonomies, RACI models, playbooks, standards, and management reporting structures.
• Ability to evaluate technology capabilities, develop business cases, define requirements, compare solution options, assess data readiness, manage risks and dependencies, influence investment decisions, and guide implementation of scalable digital solutions.
• Strong strategic thinking, enterprise mindset, structured problem-solving, decision-making, and ambiguity management skills.
• Strong program leadership, technology implementation, change adoption, planning, prioritization, roadmap management, dependency management, and execution oversight skills.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders, align cross-functional and cross-regional stakeholders, facilitate collaborative decision-making, and drive outcomes across business, IT, security, compliance, transformation, data, and operational teams.
• Executive-level communication, facilitation, storytelling, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate business needs, data insights, and technology opportunities into clear decision-ready recommendations.
• Experience leading technology adoption, user enablement, training, feedback loops, and change management for global, virtual, cross-regional, and matrixed teams.
• Excellent oral and written English skills.
• Collaborative, value-based, and outcome-oriented leadership style with the ability to create clarity, build alignment, foster trust, influence without direct authority, and drive accountability across global business, technology, data, governance, and regional stakeholder groups.
• Proven ability to operate in a dynamic, fast-paced, and frequently changing environment
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder Management, including ability to influence and challenge

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions.
• vacation days
• parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks
• bereavement leave
• caregiver leave
• volunteer leave
• well-being reimbursement
• programs for financial, physical and mental health
• service anniversary and recognition awards
• participation in several insurance plans, subject to the terms of their respective plans