SAP Solution Architect - Senior Manager in Birmingham

We are seeking skilled professionals with hands-on experience in designing and implementing SAP S/4HANA solutions. This role is pivotal in delivering high-quality client engagements, focusing on enabling digital transformation and modern cloud-based solutions. The position also involves supporting business development activities and contributing to proposals that help grow our SAP practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the functional and solution architecture design for SAP IBP programmes, ensuring tight integration with SAP S/4HANA across Supply Chain and Finance execution processes (e.g. P2P, O2C, manufacturing, and inventory management).
• Own and deliver end‑to‑end IBP solution design covering key planning processes including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Response & Supply, Inventory Optimisation, and Integrated Business Planning / S&OP.
• Conduct senior‑level fit‑to‑standard workshops with client stakeholders to align SAP IBP capabilities to business planning objectives, operating models, and performance outcomes.
• Define and maintain the overall IBP and planning architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise digital transformation strategies, SAP roadmaps, and KPMG Powered Enterprise principles.
• Design integrated planning and execution processes, ensuring seamless data flow between SAP IBP, SAP S/4HANA, and relevant non‑SAP planning or analytics platforms.
• Provide expert guidance on leveraging SAP IBP innovations, advanced analytics, scenario planning, and intelligent technologies (e.g. demand sensing, supply optimisation, and predictive analytics).
• Oversee integration strategies between SAP IBP and SAP S/4HANA using SAP BTP, CPI, APIs, and standard SAP integration patterns to ensure data consistency and performance.
• Provide architectural governance and quality assurance across the delivery lifecycle, from design through build, test, deployment, and hypercare.
• Lead and mentor multi‑disciplinary delivery teams (functional, technical, data, integration, and change) across onshore and offshore models.
• Act as a trusted advisor to client executives, articulating planning transformation roadmaps, solution trade‑offs, and the business value of SAP IBP‑enabled operating models.
• Strong capability in owning the commercial aspects of client engagements, including scope definition, pricing, risk management, contract structures, and margin delivery across complex transformation programmes.

Required Skills & Experience

• Deep functional expertise in SAP IBP, including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Response & Supply, Inventory Optimisation, and IBP for S&OP.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain and Finance processes and how they integrate with planning solutions.
• Proven experience designing and delivering integrated planning and execution solutions, including master data, key figures, planning operators, and alerts.
• Strong knowledge of SAP IBP architecture, data integration approaches, and best practices for scalable and performant planning solutions.
• Experience applying SAP Activate and fit‑to‑standard methodologies in planning‑led transformations.
• Familiarity with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) for integration, extensions, analytics, and innovation.
• Knowledge of integration patterns and technologies (e.g. CPI, APIs, OData) connecting SAP IBP, S/4HANA, and third‑party tools.

Experience

• Extensive SAP consulting experience, with significant experience in a Senior Manager or Lead Architect role delivering SAP IBP programmes.
• Delivery experience across 2-3 multiple end‑to‑end SAP IBP implementations, including integration with SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA environments.
• Proven track record of leading complex planning transformations, balancing solution quality, delivery pragmatism, and client value.
• Strong experience facilitating executive‑level workshops, shaping business cases, and defining planning roadmaps and solution blueprints.
• Ability to engage credibly with CXO‑level stakeholders across Supply Chain, Finance, and Operations.
• Experience managing and mentoring high‑performing consulting teams within a professional services environment.
• Proven experience leading and shaping SAP IBP‑led RFP responses, including solution vision, delivery approach, resourcing models, and commercial inputs.

Desirable Attributes

• Exceptional communication, presentation, and client relationship skills, with the ability to simplify complex functional and technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Strong consulting mindset with excellent stakeholder management and client‑facing skills.
• Ability to simplify complex planning and technical concepts into clear business outcomes.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with a focus on value‑driven solution design.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments and leading large‑scale transformation initiatives (Supply Chain, SAP and Enterprise Transformation wide).
• Passion for developing people, building capability, and contributing to KPMG’s SAP and Supply Chain community.
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying current with SAP IBP, S/4HANA, and industry best practices.
• Track record of driving go‑to‑market (GTM) initiatives, building SAP IBP pipeline, and converting opportunities into successful client engagements through trusted client relationships and value‑led propositions.