Senior Manager, SAP IBP COE

Senior Manager, SAP IBP COEAbout Us At Dyson, we are committed to building world-class planning capabilities through innovation, data-driven decision-making, and operational excellence. The SAP IBP Center of Excellence (CoE) serves as the strategic hub for planning processes, system governance, solution design, and continuous improvement across the global planning organization. About the Role Responsible for leading the strategic direction, governance, and continuous enhancement of the SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) platform globally. This role acts as the bridge between business planning teams, IT, and external partners to ensure SAP IBP capabilities effectively support business objectives and end-to-end planning processes. The position drives system optimization, roadmap development, transformation initiatives, process standardisation, and user adoption while ensuring platform stability, data integrity, and operational excellence across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Optimization, S&OP/IBP, and Analytics. Define and maintain the SAP IBP product roadmap aligned with business strategy and planning maturity objectives. Establish governance frameworks for system enhancements, change requests, prioritisation, and release management. Drive alignment between business stakeholders, IT teams, system integrators, and executive leadership. Lead evaluation and adoption of new SAP IBP capabilities and innovations. Own the end-to-end SAP IBP solution landscape, including planning models, master data design, integrations, and analytics. Identify opportunities to improve planning effectiveness, automation, process efficiency, and user productivity. Ensure continuous optimisation of planning algorithms, key figures, alerts, workflows, and planning processes. Partner with Supply Chain, Finance, and Market Planning teams to understand evolving business requirements. Manage business requirements, solution design reviews, testing, deployment, and change management activities. Drive data governance standards and improve master data quality. Develop and execute SAP IBP training and capability-building programmes. Build a strong CoE culture focused on service excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement. Lead and develop a team of SAP IBP functional experts, product owners, analysts, and system specialists. Establish performance objectives and development plans for team members. About You Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or related discipline. 10+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning, SAP IBP, Planning Transformation, or Enterprise Systems. 5+ years of leadership experience managing planning systems, CoE functions, or transformation teams. Proven experience delivering SAP IBP implementations and large-scale planning transformation programs. Experience working in global and matrix organisations. undefined Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don't think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity. At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas. #J-18808-Ljbffr