ZENITH - Archetype Director "Unitary Projects" S4HANA (M/F)

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Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three sectors: Defense & Security, Aerospace & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition
• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development: training courses, academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• A recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

By joining us in Meudon, you will join the Thales Group headquarters located on the banks of the Seine and organized as a true campus, bringing together our digital identity and security activities.

As part of a project to migrate to a new ERP system, in an End-to-End Process context within the company:

The Archetype/Version Leader is responsible for the definition, management, and deployment of the "archetype" (version of the future SAP S4/HANA ERP), ensuring the alignment between the company's end-to-end processes and the target system, for all entities concerned by the Business Model in question. They ensure that "MRO" business needs, standards, and standardization requirements are perfectly integrated into all versions, deployed across the various entities of the group, and guarantee the delivery of its associated value. This position is central to ensuring the consistency, compliance, and efficiency of the ERP model across all implementation scopes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITIES

• Define and maintain the "MRO" archetype/version of the S4/HANA ERP model in conjunction with business and IT stakeholders;
• Ensure the consistency, robustness, and compliance of this version with other S4 archetypes and with the company's end-to-end processes, and its Digital Ecosystem;
• Defend the Fit-to-standard S4 approach, and for exceptions, centralize and arbitrate localization or customization needs for an entity or country;
• Lead and coordinate the deployment plan of the concerned ERP version, transversally across the Group, ensure its scalability and operational maintenance;
• Document management rules, deviations from the standard target, and ensure traceability of decisions;
• Collaborate closely with S4HANA teams, business entities, "Services" function business experts, change management leads, and suppliers;
• Implement performance indicators related to the adoption of versions/archetypes and improvements in Performance and competitiveness versus current capabilities;
• Provide regular reporting to project management and sponsors, in terms of progress and productivity achieved;
• Contribute to the upskilling of key users and ensure the sharing of best practices.

This key position requires the ability to juggle standardization challenges and adaptation/customization (in "by exception" mode), in a dynamic and demanding context, oriented towards competitiveness.

PROFILE

• Higher education Bac+5 (Master's degree) in IT, information systems, project management or similar field;
• Confirmed experience (minimum 10 years) in Services Business responsibilities;
• Confirmed experience (minimum 5 years) in digital transformation projects, ideally in ERP deployment (SAP, Oracle, etc.) in complex and multi-entity environments;
• Good understanding of end-to-end Services business processes and their challenges;
• Proficiency in project management methodologies and design/modeling tools;
• Ease in communication and cross-functional leadership of multidisciplinary teams;
• Rigor, autonomy, attention to detail, and ability to manage priorities;
• Professional English required.

Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!