Global Process Owner - SAP Transportation Management

Job Description

Are you a Transportation Management expert with strong SAP TM experience and a passion for driving global process excellence? Join Sika as our Global Process Owner Transportation Management and take ownership of the end-to-end transportation process landscape, defining and governing global standards, processes, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization. While the role is business- and process-focused rather than system-specific, you will play a pivotal role in Sika's ongoing global SAP TM transformation, ensuring solution design and rollout decisions remain aligned with global process standards and business requirements.

• Own and govern the global end-to-end Transportation Management process across all regions.
• Define and maintain global process standards, governance principles, policies, KPIs, and documentation.
• Drive process harmonization and standardization, ensuring scalable and sustainable solutions while minimizing unnecessary local deviations.
• Act as the key business authority for transportation process design and process-related decision-making.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Supply Chain, Warehouse Management, Order-to-Cash, Source-to-Pay, Finance, Master Data, and Reporting to ensure end-to-end process alignment.
• Lead continuous process improvement initiatives, maturity assessments, and performance optimization based on KPI insights.
• Govern transportation-related change requests, ensuring alignment with global standards and business objectives.
• Review and approve business requirements, solution designs, and process enhancements together with IT and project teams.
• Act as the Transportation Process Owner within the ongoing Global SAP TM program, ensuring solutions and rollouts align with Sika's global process framework.
• Provide SAP TM expertise during design reviews, testing, rollout preparation, key-user alignment, and business decision-making.
• Support communication, training, user adoption, and stakeholder engagement across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in process ownership, process management, or continuous improvement within Logistics or Supply Chain.
• Strong expertise in end-to-end transportation processes, including transportation planning, execution, carrier management, freight cost management, settlement, compliance, and performance management.
• Hands-on SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) experience is mandatory, with a strong understanding of TM processes, scenarios, and solution design.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into global process standards and scalable solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills in a global environment.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Willingness to travel internationally (up to 30%)

Additional Information

We look forward to your application. For this position, only direct applications will be considered. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at [email protected]

We offer competitive salaries, aligned with local market benchmarks and the specific scope and responsibilities of each role. Compensation is determined based skills relevant to the position, education and/or training.  We are committed to fair and equitable pay practices in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.