Field Based
Salary Range £70000-£80,000 per annum, car/car allowance, plus 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme
About the Role
As the SAP Capability Lead, you will take ownership of the direct line management, enablement, and daily delivery excellence of our functional consulting team. You will be instrumental in ensuring our consultants apply best-practice SAP solutions across active projects, acting as an operationally focused leader who mentors our team and drives strategic alignment.
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:
Directly oversee the functional consulting group (covering Finance, Supply Chain, etc.), facilitating professional development, appraisals, and continuous upskilling.
Drive presales efforts by orchestrating functional assets to build and present standard SAP Public and Private Cloud demonstrations.
Mandate the consistent use of SAP Activate frameworks, including templates and Cloud ALM, across all functional streams.
Govern daily business process design, ensuring team members effectively leverage tools such as SAP Signavio and WalkMe.
Collaborate with the Head of SAP Capability to audit functional specifications and configuration setups, ensuring alignment with architectural benchmarks.
Conduct high-level functional design sessions and tailored training for client-side project resources.
About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!
Essential
Extensive SAP consulting experience, with a proven track record of leading functional teams or a solution architecture practice.
A strong working knowledge and practical application of the SAP Activate Methodology (relevant certifications preferred).
A proven track record of successful end-to-end SAP implementations as a Functional Lead or Senior Consultant.
Hands-on experience with process modeling platforms like SAP Signavio and digital adoption platforms like WalkMe - Preferred
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between technical configuration and business requirements.
A valid passport and the absolute flexibility for national and international travel.
About Unipart
We are a supply chain performance improvement partner. We Design, Make, Move, and Improve components in our customers’ supply chains, keeping their operations and assets moving and working better, for longer. Through our commitment to continuously driving operational efficiencies, we improve performance - saving time, cost, and carbon. Our ambition is to be the driving force behind efficient, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We believe that a great workplace is one where you can bring your whole self to work. Our recruitment process is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and based entirely on merit. We define merit through a combination of technical skills and the core behaviours that help our people thrive at Unipart. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of background or circumstances.
We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity that exceeds our statutory obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and subsequent legislation. Whether it’s your age, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, family status, or any other characteristic that makes you ‘you’ - it is your talent and potential that we value most. Adjustments for you: We want you to perform at your best. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We are here to support you.
Direct Applications only. No agencies.
Keywords: Functional Consulting Lead, SAP Team Lead, Functional Architecture Lead, Senior SAP Consultant, Solutions Delivery Manager, SAP Implementation Lead, Consulting Manager, SAP Project Lead
Salary description
£70000.00 - £80000.00 per year