Sap Ams Cross Value Stream Lead

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the SAP AMS Cross Value Stream Lead (Senior Manager) – North America is responsible for driving alignment, integration, and execution across end-to-end SAP AMS value streams business solutions within a large-scale S/4HANA transformation environment. Operating across all DSO value streams including Record-to-Report, Make-to-Deploy, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, and other enterprise value streams, this role ensures that business processes, technology solutions, and delivery teams are fully aligned to enable seamless end-to-end operations with ITSM best practices of Incidents – Change – Problem management including new Projects transition intake to DSO. The role serves as a key integrator across functional, technical, and business teams, balancing strategic direction with hands‑on execution to drive DSO Quality assurances to avoid business disruptions. This position also owns end-to‑end validation and release readiness across value streams, ensuring that changes are delivered in a controlled, high-quality manner with minimal disruption to the business. Ensure comprehensive end-to‑end scenario coverage and regression testing across value streams to protect production stability.

• 1. Cross Value Stream Leadership & Integration
  - Lead alignment across SAP AMS/DSO value streams, ensuring integrated business processes and dependencies are clearly defined and managed
  - Act as the central point of coordination across functional, technical, and business teams
  - Drive collaboration between process owners, product teams, and delivery leads to ensure cohesive execution
  - Identify and proactively manage cross-stream risks, impacts, and dependencies
• 2. Release Management & Deployment Leadership
  - Own the integrated release management process across SAP value streams, ensuring coordinated and predictable deployments
  - Define release strategy, cadence, and governance aligned to business priorities and transformation timelines
  - Coordinate release scope, dependencies, and readiness across multiple teams and systems
  - Lead release planning, cutover activities, and go‑live execution to ensure minimal business disruption
  - Ensure clear communication of release content, risks, and impacts to stakeholders
  - Drive post‑release stabilization, issue resolution, and continuous improvement of release processes
• 3. End-to-End Testing & Validation Leadership
  - Lead and Drive VS AMS/DSO leads to complete end-to‑end scenario validation and regression coverage across value streams to ensure production readiness and minimize business risk.
  - Define and enforce testing governance, including planning, scope, entry/exit criteria, and defect management. Ensuring the proper scenarios are identified and executed.
  - Partner with business stakeholders & VS AMS /DSO leads to validate critical scenarios and ensure readiness for deployment
  - Drive coordination of integration testing cycles across SAP and non‑SAP systems
  - Ensure effective defect triage, prioritization, and resolution across cross‑functional teams
• 4. Business Process & Solution Alignment
  - Drive consistent, end-to‑end process design and execution across sectors, functions, and geographies by partnering with business stakeholders to align solutions to operational outcomes, while standardizing processes and optimizing system integrations to reduce complexity and improve efficiency.
  - Partner with Sector AMS leads and Common services to identify the harmonization and adoption for best practices in ITSM process and the tools including Common Service Framework
• 5. Quality, Readiness & Risk Management
  - Own overall solution readiness across value streams, ensuring high‑quality delivery with minimal business disruption
  - Oversee integrated validation activities, including regression and release readiness assessments
  - Identify risks early and drive mitigation plans across teams
  - Ensure adherence to quality standards, controls, and compliance requirements
• 6. Stakeholder & Team Leadership
  - Partner with business and technology leaders to align priorities and drive outcomes
  - Serve as the escalation point