Director, Nexus Lead (SAP S/4HANA)

Location: Vacaville, California, United States. Office-first role with primarily in-office work and remote work available for 20% of the time, typically one day per week.

Annual base salary: $177,000–$295,000.

Company

A global life sciences manufacturing organization with more than 30 sites across five continents, producing medicines and supporting customers’ breakthrough therapies.

What you will do

• Serve as the Vacaville site lead and primary business representative for the Nexus SAP S/4HANA deployment.
• Lead site deployment activities covering planning, testing, data readiness, training, change management, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
• Partner with site and global leadership on executive reporting, decision support, risk assessments, and implementation recommendations.
• Drive readiness across people, processes, data, systems, compliance, and operations.
• Establish governance, project management, RAID management, dashboards, steering committee materials, and deployment milestones.
• Lead stakeholder communications, resolve dependencies and resource constraints, and reinforce adoption of global SAP standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science, supply chain, business, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience leading large-scale ERP deployments, transformation programs, or complex business system implementations in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or related industries.
• Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and manufacturing processes including production planning, quality management, supply chain, inventory management, and logistics integration.
• Experience influencing senior leaders, managing complex stakeholder environments, and aligning local and global organizations.
• Experience leading organizational change management, training, communications, and business readiness during enterprise-scale transformations.
• Understanding of regulated manufacturing requirements including GxP, Computer Systems Validation, 21 CFR Part 11, data integrity, and audit readiness.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree or certifications such as PMP, Prince2, CPIM, or CSCP.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance-related bonus.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) matching plan.
• Life insurance and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Employee assistance programs and paid time off.
• Culture centered on collaboration, accountability, excellence, passion, and integrity.