Freelance Senior SAP SD / Order-to-Cash Solution Architect
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior SAP SD / Order-to-Cash Solution Architect to support a global Life Sciences organization in governing and optimizing its SAP Order-to-Cash landscape.
The consultant will take ownership of the end-to-end SAP SD and Order-to-Cash domain, ensuring stable, scalable, and compliant solutions across multiple countries and business entities. The role combines solution architecture, process governance, business partnering, and hands-on SAP expertise, while supporting ongoing transformation initiatives and S/4HANA readiness activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and govern the SAP SD and Order-to-Cash solution landscape, including order management, pricing, deliveries, shipping, billing, returns, and credit management.
- Provide architectural guidance for incident resolution, enhancements, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Design and maintain scalable global SAP solutions aligned with business and regulatory requirements.
- Lead solution design activities across sales operations, customer service, logistics, and finance functions.
- Drive SAP integration activities involving third-party logistics providers (3PLs), middleware platforms, EDI, APIs, and IDocs.
- Support the design and implementation of e-invoicing and tax compliance solutions across multiple markets.
- Ensure proper integration between SAP SD, Finance (FI/AR), tax engines, and external invoicing platforms.
- Contribute to ECC-to-S/4HANA transformation activities, including fit-gap analysis, process blueprinting, interface assessments, and solution design.
- Review solution documentation, testing approaches, and deployment readiness activities.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, vendors, implementation partners, and support teams.
- Drive process standardization and simplification across a complex global Order-to-Cash landscape.
- Support governance activities ensuring solutions remain compliant, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
Required Experience
- 10+ years of SAP experience with strong expertise in SAP SD and end-to-end Order-to-Cash processes.
- Extensive experience covering sales orders, pricing, deliveries, shipping, billing, returns, and credit management.
- Strong knowledge of SAP pricing procedures, condition technique, billing configuration, and FI integration.
- Experience with Accounts Receivable, tax determination, revenue posting, and financial integration.
- Proven experience designing integrations using EDI, APIs, IDocs, and middleware technologies.
- Experience integrating SAP with third-party logistics providers and external business platforms.
- Strong understanding of solution architecture, governance, and global template management.
- Experience supporting or leading SAP transformation and S/4HANA readiness initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Fluent English communication skills.
Preferred Experience
- Experience within Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Healthcare, or other regulated industries.
- Experience with global e-invoicing solutions and electronic invoice frameworks such as Peppol.
- Knowledge of tax authority integrations, invoice validation, archiving, and compliance requirements.
- Experience supporting multinational SAP environments across multiple countries and legal entities.
- Familiarity with GxP, GDP, CSV, validation processes, and regulated change management.
- Experience working with external implementation partners and managed service providers.
- Prior involvement in SAP ECC-to-S/4HANA migration or transformation programmes.
- Experience driving business process harmonization and global process standardization initiatives.
Contract Details
Location: Europe
Working Model: Hybrid
Set up: Freelance / Contractor
Start: November 2026
Duration: Initial 6-month contract with possible extensions
Workload: Full-time (40 hours per week)
Industry: Life Sciences / Pharmaceuticals
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