Source to Pay Data Migration Business Lead

Our client, a leader in the global healthcare sector, is seeking a Source to Pay (STP) Data Migration Business Lead to support a large-scale S/4HANA transformation program. This role will be responsible for coordinating and driving end-to-end data migration activities across multiple business units and legacy systems, ensuring the successful transition of critical procurement and finance data into a centralized S/4HANA environment.

The ideal candidate will play a key role in orchestrating data migration strategy, governance, cleansing, validation, testing, and deployment readiness activities while working closely with business stakeholders, IT teams, PMO functions, and implementation partners. This position is critical to ensuring data integrity, operational continuity, and successful ERP adoption through a structured and controlled migration approach.

This is a contractual role which will run through the end of 2026, with the likelihood of extension well into 2027.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and coordinate the STP data migration strategy, governance, scope, timelines, and deployment readiness activities
• Develop integrated migration plans aligned with overall program milestones and business priorities
• Coordinate migration activities across business teams, workstreams, technical teams, and external partners
• Establish data governance principles, ownership, and accountability across data domains
• Drive data cleansing initiatives and ensure data quality issues, inconsistencies, and gaps are proactively resolved
• Coordinate source-to-target mapping activities across multiple legacy ERP systems into S/4HANA data structures
• Support extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) activities alongside technical teams
• Ensure migration cycles, cutover activities, and deployment readiness activities are executed effectively
• Coordinate mock migrations, testing, UAT, and data validation activities
• Ensure migrated data meets business, operational, and reporting requirements before go-live
• Track and resolve reconciliation gaps, defects, and migration-related issues while supporting sign-off activities
• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, IT teams, deployment leads, and system integrators for migration activities
• Facilitate alignment across procurement, finance, operations, and master data teams
• Provide regular progress updates, risk visibility, and escalation support to leadership and governance forums
• Support deployment cutover planning and execution across implementation waves
• Coordinate hypercare support for migration-related issues following go-live
• Capture lessons learned and contributed to continuous improvement of migration processes and governance
  

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in ERP transformation programs, preferably SAP S/4HANA, data migration, master data, or large-scale system implementations
  
• Strong understanding of ERP data structures, migration lifecycle activities, and master data concepts
  
• Experience across Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, or operational ERP data domains preferred
  
• Strong knowledge of STP data objects including Vendor Master, Procured Material Master, Info Records, Source Lists, Open Purchase Orders, and Open AP Items
  
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business-friendly language
  
• Ability to manage timelines, dependencies, risks, and competing priorities in fast-paced transformation environments