Director - SAP Data & Analytics - BW & BDC - TC - UKI

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Technology Consulting | Director | SAP Data & Analytics

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity

Our EY Analytics team is dedicated to helping clients unlock business value by harnessing the latest SAP innovations. We’re looking for directors who are both tech-savvy and business-minded, with a genuine passion for connecting SAP technology to real-world business challenges. We are looking for technologists who are driven to deliver solutions that truly transform the way clients consume data.

Key responsibilities
As an EY Director, you’ll lead project engagements, working directly with clients and EY Partners. You’ll be responsible for guiding your team through all parts of a project - from developing new opportunities and identifying value for clients, to designing and delivering solutions. Alongside your client facing role, you’ll also be part of the SAP Analytics Technology leadership team and play a key role across people leadership.

Your key responsibilities:

1. Client Leadership & Delivery Oversight

  • Act as senior delivery lead across complex SAP BDC / Datasphere / BW programmes, ensuring successful outcomes across scope, quality, timeline, and budget
  • Provide oversight and challenge on solution architecture, ensuring alignment with client enterprise data strategies
  • Manage senior client stakeholders (CFO, CIO, Head of Data/FP&A), acting as a trusted advisor
  • Resolve critical delivery risks and escalations across workstreams
  • Ensure integration across finance, data, and technology domains (e.g. SAC Planning, BDC, Databricks/Snowflake/Azure)

2. Commercial Leadership
  • Own and contribute to sales pipelines, leading pursuits and proposals for Analytics
  • Shape client propositions around Analytics Transformation
  • Lead bid teams, including solutioning, pricing, and commercial structuring
  • Drive revenue growth and margin performance across engagements
  • Identify and originate new opportunities within existing client accounts

3. Offering & Asset Development
  • Define and evolve the SAP Analytics offering, including go-to-market propositions
  • Drive AI innovation
  • Lead development of reusable assets

4. Practice & Capability Leadership
  • Build and develop the SAP Analytics capability, including mentoring junior colleagues
  • Support recruitment and workforce planning aligned to growth strategy
  • Establish delivery standards, methods, and best practices across the practice
  • Foster a high-performance culture focused on quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement

5. Thought Leadership & Market Presence
  • Represent the firm externally in client meetings, industry forums, and with alliance partners
  • Contribute to thought leadership
  • Position the practice as a leader in SAP data & analytics solutions

Skills and attributes for success

Key skills & experience required:
  • Strong experience delivering SAP analytics solutions (multiple full project lifecycles)
  • Deep understanding and experience of leading practices for architecting and building SAP data & analytics solutions
  • Strong experience with cross-system integration
  • Deep understanding of multiple SAP process areas and experience designing end to end analytics models
  • Proven track record of leading large-scale transformation programmes
  • Demonstrated commercial acumen, including sales, pricing, and margin management
  • Strong stakeholder management at executive level
  • Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across functional and technical domains



Ideally, you’ll also have:
  • Industry expertise (energy / defence / retail / life sciences)
  • Experience in non-SAP cloud data platforms (AWS / Azure / Databricks / Snowflake)
  • Experience delivering SAP AI products

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:
  • Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
  • Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
  • The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fuelled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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EY | Building a better working world

EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

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