SAP S/4HANA Integration & Partner Systems Manager

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Company Description
• ● Established in 2011 and headquartered in Pune, METRO Global Solution Center (GSC) India is a strategic hub driving METRO's global transformation. With 1,200+ professionals, we deliver specialized integrated expertise across Master Data Management, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Marketing & Design, Strategy, Finance & Accounting, controlling (FP&A), and People & Culture (HR) solutions that drive operational excellence and digital innovation.
• ● By supporting METRO's sCore strategy, we enable sustainable growth and strengthen business processes. With a solutions-first mindset, we reduce complexity, accelerate transformation, and create measurable value for METRO businesses scaling up globally. METRO is a leading international food wholesaler operating in over 30 countries with a strong network of wholesale stores, digital marketplaces, and food service distribution. It supports businesses that keep the world running, from hotels, restaurants, and cafés to local retailers - offering quality, reliability, and smart solutions that help small and medium-sized businesses succeed.
• ● Acting sustainably is one of the company principles of METRO, which has been listed in various sustainability indices and rankings, including MSCI, Sustainalytics and CDP.
• ● Job Description
• ● Partner-system dependency management
• ● Own and maintain an end-to-end view of dependencies between LUCA and the relevant SAP and non-SAP partner systems, covering business processes, data, interfaces, environments, testing, cutover and operational readiness.
• ● Identify interdependencies early, clarify owners and required decisions, and translate them into traceable milestones, deliverables, assumptions, risks and actions.
• ● Coordinate dependency planning across LUCA workstreams and partner-system roadmaps, highlighting sequencing constraints and potential impacts on rollout readiness.
• ● Act as the central coordination point for partner-system integration topics, ensuring that open points are assigned, followed up, escalated and resolved in a timely manner.
• ● Functional and technical integration
• ● Understand end-to-end Finance processes and assess how changes in LUCA affect upstream and downstream partner systems, business controls and operational activities.
• ● Facilitate alignment between functional requirements and technical integration design, ensuring that business intent, data needs, processing logic and non-functional constraints are understood by all parties.
• ● Coordinate the design and implementation of integration scenarios between SAP S/4HANA and SAP or non-SAP systems, including interfaces, data flows, middleware dependencies and migration-related connections.
• ● Challenge incomplete or inconsistent requirements and support teams in reaching practical, sustainable and reusable integration solutions.
• ● Ensure integration decisions, interface scope, ownership, dependencies and acceptance criteria are documented and aligned with the LUCA template and rollout approach.
• ● Testing, cutover and readiness
• ● Coordinate partner-system participation in integration testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing and defect resolution, with clear entry criteria, test data needs, responsibilities and evidence.
• ● Ensure cross-system defects are analysed from both functional and technical perspectives and driven to sustainable resolution across organisational boundaries.