SAP SuccessFactors Solution Lead

Job description

**Fixed-Term Contract | 36 Months** **Role & responsibilities** **Solution Ownership & Design Governance** - Act as Voltas' internal SAP SuccessFactors solution authority throughout the implementation lifecycle. - Review, challenge, and approve solution designs proposed by the implementation partner. - Ensure configurations align with business requirements, SAP best practices, scalability considerations, and future roadmap requirements. - Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce customization, and maximize standard SuccessFactors capabilities. **Implementation Partner Management** - Work closely with the implementation partner on a day-to-day basis to guide delivery and ensure accountability. - Review deliverables, challenge assumptions, and validate recommendations before acceptance. - Monitor quality, timelines, risks, and dependencies across all workstreams. - Escalate concerns proactively and ensure issues are resolved effectively. **Hands-On Functional Leadership** - Participate actively in fit-gap assessments, design workshops, testing activities, cutover planning, and deployment activities. - Perform solution validation, impact analysis, and configuration reviews across all modules. - Independently execute low-to-medium complexity system configuration, prototyping, and enhancement activities wherever feasible. - Build and maintain deep system knowledge to reduce long-term reliance on implementation partners. **Module Ownership** Provide functional leadership across: - Employee Central - Employee Central Payroll (India) - Time Tracking / Time Management - Performance & Goals - Succession Planning - SAP Joule and SAP Business AI capabilities **Testing & Quality Assurance** - Lead business validation activities including SIT, UAT, payroll parallel runs, and production readiness assessments. - Ensure all configurations meet business, compliance, and operational requirements. - Validate integrations, workflows, permissions, reporting, and downstream impacts. **Stakeholder Engagement** - Partner closely with HR, Payroll, Compliance, IT, and business stakeholders. - Facilitate design decisions and ensure stakeholder alignment throughout the program. - Support change management, training, and user adoption activities. **Continuous Improvement** - Establish an internal roadmap for post-go-live enhancements and optimization and implement the agile methodology for SDLC - Identify opportunities to leverage new SuccessFactors innovations and AI capabilities. - Develop internal capability and knowledge to support long-term platform ownership. **Preferred candidate profile** - 10-15+ years of HR technology and HR systems experience. - 5+ years of deep SAP SuccessFactors solution experience. - Hands-on configuration exposure across multiple SuccessFactors modules. - Experience leading at least two end-to-end SuccessFactors implementations. - Experience reviewing and governing work delivered by implementation partners. - Strong understanding of SAP HCM and migration to SuccessFactors. - Manufacturing sector experience preferred. - Experience with India payroll, time management, and statutory compliance. - Ability to operate independently as a trusted advisor, solution reviewer, and implementation lead.