SAP S/4HANA Project Manager (m/w/d)

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Job Description: Make History. Change Futures.: Are you looking for a patient-oriented, innovation-driven company that inspires you and promotes your career? Then take your future in your hands and become part of Takeda as

SAP S/4HANA Project Manager (m/w/d): The role is fixed term until 31st of March 2028.: As part of the Business Excellence team, lead the end‑to‑end deployment of Takeda’s S/4HANA process model at the Oranienburg site—ensuring readiness, compliance, stable operations, and uninterrupted supply throughout the transformation.

How you will contribute:

• Act as the single point of accountability for site Takami deployment.
• Align site teams with global standards while safeguarding operational performance.
• Orchestrate site sprints, testing, cutover, and hypercare.
• Drive readiness across processes, data, systems, compliance, and people.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, and business continuity.
• Lead change, communication, and training efforts.
• Partner closely with Site Leadership, OpU, GSQ, DD&T, and Global Process Experts.
• Govern site deployment and represent site needs in global forums.
• Lead gap analysis and integration topics (MES, LIMS, maintenance systems).
• Secure and coordinate SMEs for design, testing, data, and cutover.
• Ensure master data quality and readiness for validation and migration.
• Plan and safeguard cutover with strong contingency measures.
• Maintain manufacturing and quality stability during transition.

What you bring to Takeda: Expertise Required

• Strong program/project leadership in large‑scale transformations (ideally SAP).
• Deep operational understanding across Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Finance.
• Experience driving change, readiness, testing, cutover, and hypercare.
• Robust risk and stakeholder management in regulated environments.

Leadership Capabilities

• Influence senior stakeholders and secure resources.
• Make fast, outcome‑driven decisions in complex settings.
• Lead cross‑functional teams through pressure and change.

Preferred

• Pharmaceutical manufacturing experience.
• SAP/S4 deployment or global template rollout experience.

In this position you will report to the Head of Business Excellence.

What we offer you:

• Attractive and competitive salary
• 30 vacation days
• Further education and training
• Commuting allowance
• Subsidized sports programs
• Subsidized canteen
• Employee discounts
• Performance-related bonus
• Disability insurance
• Group accident insurance
• Deferred compensation as desired
• Global Wellbeing Program
• Employee Recognition Program
• Employee Referral Program
• Interactive online courses for employees' children
• Parent Child Office
• Open-minded and modern working environment

About Us: Takeda is focused on creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. We aim to discover and deliver life-transforming treatments in our core therapeutic and business areas, including gastrointestinal and inflammation, rare diseases, plasma-derived therapies, oncology, neuroscience and vaccines.

The Oranienburg manufacturing site in the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region is the Takeda site with the most employees for the production of solid dosage forms (capsules and tablets). The site also houses a pilot production facility for clinical development projects. Pharmaceutical manufacturing in Oranienburg can look back on a tradition of more than 135 years. Today, we supply over 65 countries with high-quality medicines from Oranienburg. Takeda Ora