About the Role
Location
Germany
Bayern
Erlangen
Company
Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
Organization
EVP Global Functions
Business Unit
Digital Process Transformation
Full / Part time
Full-time
Experience Level
Experienced Professional
A Snapshot of Your Day
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Wave Rollout Lead (f/m/d) to join our dynamic S4E Central Rollout team. Coming from a clear SAP-IT foundation, you are the business translator for our Program. The role focuses on structured, transparent, and compliant wave delivery that drives business readiness and successful adoption across clusters and AREs. This position aligns integrated planning with program roadmaps, manages dependencies, and enforces global template standards while orchestrating solution, data, integration, testing, cutover, and hypercare activities. Partnering with the Wave Business Lead, it engages stakeholders effectively, standardizes deployment practices and governance, and serves as the IT/Solution point of accountability for the wave. By leveraging modern delivery tools, data-driven KPIs, and a mindset of continuous improvement, the role elevates rollout quality, minimizes risk, and ensures consistent, successful outcomes.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Drive end-to-end execution of the SAP S4E rollout, ensuring standardized, compliant implementation across the assigned wave.
- Lead integrated planning, aligning scope, schedule, resources, and budget with SAP S4E program and regional timelines.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure smooth SAP S4E collaboration and timely issue resolution.
- Monitor SAP S4E rollout progress, risks, and financials, implementing mitigation strategies and ensuring transparency to leadership.
- Enforce SAP S4E global template adherence and fit-to-standard solutions to minimize technical risks and enable adoption.
- Facilitate SAP S4E governance processes, including readiness reviews and go/no-go decisions, ensuring rollout success and user satisfaction.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, business administration or a related field.
- Extensive experience managing large-scale, complex, multi-regional projects.
- Strong expertise in project planning, governance, risk, and financial management.
- Proven ability to enforce global standards and ensure high-quality delivery.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams.
- Fluency in English; German is a plus, along with proficiency in MS Office.
About the Team
In our Business Functions we enable our organization to reach their targets by providing best-in
class services and solutions in the areas of IT, HR, Finance, Real Estate, Strategy & Technology and more.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
- In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
- We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
- We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
- The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
- In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical
We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
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The S4 program at Siemens Energy, formally called S4E or S4E‑Unify, is one of the major global Business- & IT Transformation Programs within Siemens Energy (SE). Its key objective is to transform our historical patchwork of 23 legacy SAP systems into a completely new platform based on the latest state-of-the-art SAP S/4 HANA technology. At the same time, S4E-Unify is aiming for the optimization and harmonization of SE’s worldwide Business Processes across all Business Areas, Regions and Functions. Goal is to significantly reduce complexity, increase speed and flexibility, foster cross-organizational collaboration and finally drive significant cost reductions. The S4E-Unify core team consists of roughly 300 colleagues around the globe plus a substantial extended community of subject matter experts (SME), change network ambassadors and other contributors. It affects 40,000 global users and follows an implementation roadmap through 2030. The S4E program is delivered through phased “Unify” rollout waves, bringing sites and business areas live step by step on SAP S/4HANA. It includes standardized business templates, a defined operating model with strong governance and board‑level sponsorship, and an enhanced user experience that modernizes how employees work.
The S4 program at Siemens Energy, formally called S4E or S4E‑Unify, is one of the major global Business- & IT Transformation Programs within Siemens Energy (SE). Its key objective is to transform our historical patchwork of 23 legacy SAP systems into a completely new platform based on the latest state-of-the-art SAP S/4 HANA technology. At the same time, S4E-Unify is aiming for the optimization and harmonization of SE’s worldwide Business Processes across all Business Areas, Regions and Functions. Goal is to significantly reduce complexity, increase speed and flexibility, foster cross-organizational collaboration and finally drive significant cost reductions. The S4E-Unify core team consists of roughly 300 colleagues around the globe plus a substantial extended community of subject matter experts (SME), change network ambassadors and other contributors. It affects 40,000 global users and follows an implementation roadmap through 2030. The S4E program is delivered through phased “Unify” rollout waves, bringing sites and business areas live step by step on SAP S/4HANA. It includes standardized business templates, a defined operating model with strong governance and board‑level sponsorship, and an enhanced user experience that modernizes how employees work.
