Our client is a private equity-backed consumer business with head office operations split between the UK and Denmark. The sponsor needs two things done before next summer 2027.
First, a cost base that looks materially different. That means savings that turn up in the monthly management accounts and the lender pack, not in a consultant’s slide deck.
Second, an SAP S/4HANA programme brought back under control. It has drifted on scope, time and budget, and the board no longer believes the plan. The job is to diagnose it honestly, recommend whether to continue, re-baseline or descope, sort out the systems integrator, and leave a programme that can reach go-live after you have gone.
The two are connected. There is no point building complexity into the ERP that the cost programme is about to remove.
You will report to the CEO and work closely with the sponsor’s operating partner. You will have:
- Run transformation as Chief Transformation Officer or interim equivalent in a PE-backed business, with savings you can point to in the P&L
- Personally led the recovery of a troubled SAP programme, ideally S/4HANA, and be able to argue with an integrator about data migration and testing on equal terms
- Worked in consumer goods, FMCG, retail or a branded consumer business with real supply chain complexity
The appetite for a genuine split between the UK and Denmark. Nordic experience helps; Danish language does not matter
It starts as soon as possible.
