SAP Architect

Join Yamaha Motor Europe as a SAP Architect

Share our passion:
Ever since our founder, Genichi Kawakami, established Yamaha Motor, it is our mission to give to ALL our customers KANDO. Not only with our products, but also to our employees. KANDO is a Japanese word to express the feeling of deep satisfaction and excitement you get when you encounter something of exceptional value, quality, and performance.

You have the opportunity to be part of the Yamaha family.

For Yamaha Motor Europe N.V. (YME), located at Schiphol-Rijk in the Netherlands, we are looking for a SAP Architect in our Information Systems (IS) Division.

About the role:
To lead and drive transformation within YME through a strategic SAP initiative—Yamaha to Next Stage (YNS). The SAP Architect will be pivotal in architecting the future of Yamaha Motor Europe's SAP landscape, ensuring it remains at the cutting edge and delivers significant business value. This role involves shaping the ongoing evolution of SAP-based solutions in alignment with the long-term enterprise architecture roadmap, beyond the initial YNS program.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead a Core Business Transformation: Be the architect of SAP solutions, driving a comprehensive transformation that will revolutionize our operations and set us up for long-term success;
• Define Technical Vision: Define and maintain the overall technical architecture, including system landscape, integration points, and data flows, ensuring alignment with our strategic business objectives;
• Drive Innovation and Best Practices: Challenge proposed solutions, ensuring adherence to industry best practices and SAP standards. Foster a culture of continuous improvement and explore opportunities to leverage emerging technologies;
• Ensure End-to-End Delivery: Take ownership from inception to go-live and beyond, coordinating with stakeholders and ensuring timely delivery of milestones;
• Champion Integration and Interoperability: Lead the design and implementation of seamless integrations with other systems, ensuring data consistency and quality across the entire solution;
• Provide Strategic Input: Ensure the latest capabilities and functionality meet business and IT requirements compliant with Yamaha standards;
• Shape the Future of Automotive Solutions: Leverage your deep understanding of the automotive industry to design and implement SAP solutions that address the unique challenges and opportunities of our sector.

What do you bring?

• Deep understanding of SAP S/4HANA and other SAP modules;
• Expertise in the design of SAP S/4HANA architectures and integration;
• Experience within different process streams to identify all cross-module end-to-end-processes;
• Extensive and recent experience within the automotive industry is an added advantage;
• Knowledge in the transformation of SAP ECC or non-SAP Legacy systems to SAP S/4HANA;
• Strong leadership and project management skills;
• Ability to work effectively in a global, cross-functional team;
• Experience in managing large-scale, multi-year projects;
• Strong understanding of IT governance and risk management principles;
• Knowledge of industry standards and best practices.

About You!
A motivated and inspirational colleague, happy to support the business and truly devoted to customer success. You are a humble team player, who is willing to learn and is not afraid to face challenges. Quality and professionalism lie close to your heart.

About Yamaha Motor Europe
Yamaha Motor Europe is responsible for coordinating the marketing and sales activities of our products in the European market, mainly: Yamaha motorcycles, scooters, eBikes, marine engines, personal watercraft vehicles, boats, 4-wheeled all terrain and side-by-side vehicles (ATVs/SSVs), lightweight vehicles (golf cars, personal and commercial vehicles) and eBike drive units and systems.

What’s in it for you?

• A diverse and international environment;
• We offer a hybrid way of working, of course, this includes working from home allowance and a budget for setting up your home office;
• Commuting allowance, holiday allowance, and 28 days off to enjoy as you please;
• 13th-month payment and you will participate in our Bonus Program;
• Pension scheme;
• Learning and development opportunities;
• Discount on Yamaha products;
• Your first contract will be a temporary contract, but with the intention to extend or offer an indefinite contract;
• We support you in getting your motor or boat license;
• Free fruits are available in our office;
• You can relish breakfast/lunch at our restaurant, "The Three Forks" at a reasonable price within the office premises;
• Get to know your colleagues during our company/team events and monthly afternoon drinks.

Sounds interesting?
We are looking forward to receiving your CV and motivation letter.

Note, an assessment will be part of our procedure.

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