S4+ Data & Analytics Lead
About The Position
The S4+ Data & Analytics Lead is the single-thread accountable leader for the end-to-end data and analytics agenda across the S4+ programme, owning all programme data outcomes across design, build, test, migration, cutover, and post go-live stabilisation. The role ensures the programme delivers clean, reconciled data, trusted analytics, and AI ready foundations, while protecting operational and financial integrity through cutover. It has the mandate to define standards, chair programme data governance, and stop or escalate delivery where data readiness or risk would compromise go live integrity or future value realisation. This is a programme role with explicit responsibility to ensure programme artefacts, controls, and ways-of-working become BAU-ready and are transitioned into business-as-usual operating rhythms post go-live. About the S4+ Programme The Weir Group is undertaking S4+, a major global business transformation programme built around SAP S/4HANA. S4+ is far more than an IT or systems upgrade, it is an enterprise-wide transformation encompassing process redesign, data harmonisation, operating model change, and cultural change across Weir. S4+ will replace legacy systems with a single, integrated global operating model built on common standards and a single source of truth, transforming end-to-end value streams across Finance, Supply Chain, Sales & Marketing, Service, Manufacturing, and Engineering/Innovation/PLM (HR excluded, having already transitioned to Workday). Data, analytics and AI are core enablers of S4+, with clean, harmonised, high-quality data foundations required to unlock real-time insight and scalable AI across SAP and connected enterprise platforms.
Requirements
- Data governance, migration, analytics and AI enablement in SAP S/4HANA programmes.
- Information modelling artefacts (SoR, object catalogue, DQ rules, KPI lineage).
- Data readiness and cutover integrity in ERP transformations.
- Programme leadership and delivery management.
- Standard setting and enforcement across partners and domains.
- Confident escalation where data risk threatens go live.
- Single thread accountability for S4+ data outcomes.
- Establish and run programme data governance and design authority.
- Protect operational and financial integrity through cutover.
- Leading data and analytics on SAP S/4HANA or ERP scale transformations.
- Hands-on data migration, reconciliation and go live readiness.
- Delivering trusted analytics and eliminating fragmented reporting.
Responsibilities
- Programme Data Leadership & Governance - Single accountable owner for S4+ data outcomes; owns integrated data roadmap and governance.
- Information Modelling & Design Authority - Own programme information modelling outputs and chair data-related design authority decisions.
- Migration, Readiness & Cutover Integrity - Own end-to-end data migration and go live readiness; stop/escalate where data risk exists.
- Analytics & AI Enablement - Deliver trusted analytics and AI ready foundations aligned to enterprise controls.
Benefits
- An opportunity to grow your own way
- Support and freedom to tailor-make their own career
- Welcoming, inclusive place
- Fairness, honesty, transparency and authenticity
- Commitment to an inclusive and diverse workplace
- Equal opportunity employer
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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