SAP Delivery and Solution Architect (GTM) – Automotive Manufacturing

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About the role

The SAP Automotive / Manufacturing Delivery & Solutioning Architect (GTM) is a senior transformation leader responsible for shaping, selling, architecting, and delivering large-scale SAP-enabled business transformation programs for Automotive and Manufacturing clients. This role combines deep SAP expertise with industry-specific knowledge across automotive OEMs, suppliers, industrial manufacturing, and complex manufacturing environments to design end-to-end solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.

The architect serves as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders and is accountable for developing solution strategies, leading complex pursuits, driving innovation, and ensuring successful delivery of enterprise transformation programs. The role plays a critical part in Capgemini’s Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy by creating compelling client value propositions, building reusable assets and accelerators, and contributing to thought leadership across the Automotive and Manufacturing industry.

This role will help build the offering and drive growth through strategic pre-sales activities, support Centers of Excellence, promote global alignment across regions, and maintain close alignment with client expectations through active involvement in transformation delivery engagements.

As Automotive and Manufacturing organizations accelerate their adoption of intelligent and AI-enabled operating models, this role extends beyond traditional SAP transformation to help clients leverage SAP Business AI, Business Data Cloud, enterprise architecture, intelligent automation, and emerging agentic AI capabilities to modernize manufacturing operations, strengthen supply chain resilience, improve asset performance, and advance their Autonomous Enterprise journey.

This position requires a strong balance of industry expertise, business consulting, enterprise architecture, pre-sales leadership, delivery governance, and AI-enabled transformation capabilities, while leveraging SAP innovations including S/4HANA, SAP Business AI, SAP BTP, Digital Manufacturing, Integrated Business Planning, Extended Warehouse Management, Transportation Management, Asset Management, and emerging Industry Cloud capabilities.

The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: $123,750- $282,000

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In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.

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Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor and SAP Automotive / Manufacturing industry expert, leading large-scale business transformation initiatives across automotive OEMs, suppliers, and industrial manufacturing clients.
• Lead solution strategy, architecture, and roadmap development for SAP S/4HANA and related digital transformation programs.
• Drive strategic pursuits, RFP responses, client workshops, and executive presentations, translating business objectives and manufacturing challenges into compelling solution visions.
• Partner with sales, account, and delivery teams to develop differentiated go-to-market offerings, industry accelerators, and win strategies.
• Architect scalable, future-ready solutions leveraging SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP Business AI, Supply Chain Management, Digital Manufacturing, Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), Transportation Management (TM), Asset Management, and Industry Cloud capabilities.
• Guide clients through ERP modernization, manufacturing transformation, supply chain optimization, plant and asset modernization, aftermarket transformation, and AI-enabled business initiatives.
• Bring strong understanding of end-to-end manufacturing processes including planning, procurement, production, inventory, warehousing, logistics, quality, maintenance, fulfillment, and aftermarket operations.
• Lead enterprise architecture discussions, operating model transformation efforts, business capability assessments, and value realization strategies.
• Advise clients on the adoption of SAP Business AI, intelligent automation, agentic AI capabilities, and AI-enabled manufacturing and supply chain transformation.
• Help clients connect SAP technology investments with measurable improvements across manufacturing productivity, planning, supply chain visibility, operational efficiency, quality, and asset performance.
• Provide leadership throughout the program lifecycle, ensuring delivery excellence, business value realization, client satisfaction, and commercial success.
• Champion innovation and AI-enabled solutioning methodologies, creating reusable assets, accelerators, and Automotive / Manufacturing industry offerings.
• Build and maintain executive stakeholder relationships while influencing strategic business and technology decisions.
• Lead and mentor global, cross-functional teams in complex environments, supporting capability growth, thought leadership, and sales enablement activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 15+ years of SAP experience across consulting, enterprise/solution architecture, business transformation, and program leadership.
• Deep Automotive and/or Manufacturing industry expertise, including automotive OEMs, Tier 1/Tier 2 suppliers, industrial manufacturing, and complex discrete manufacturing environments.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes including plan-to-produce, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, manufacturing execution, warehousing/logistics, asset management, quality, and aftermarket/service operations.
• Proven leadership of large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformations, enterprise modernization programs, and complex pursuits exceeding $25M-$50M+ TCV.
• Strong experience with SAP S/4HANA, BTP, Business AI, Business Data Cloud, Digital Manufacturing, IBP, EWM, TM, Asset Management, Integration Suite, Signavio, and relevant Industry Cloud solutions.
• Experience architecting enterprise solutions across ERP, manufacturing, supply chain, data, integration, automation, and cloud, with the ability to connect SAP capabilities to manufacturing business outcomes.
• Knowledge of SAP and emerging AI capabilities, including Joule, Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG, LLMs, enterprise data platforms, and AI-enabled manufacturing transformation.
• Strong enterprise architecture and transformation experience, including LeanIX, business capability modeling, operating model transformation, strategic roadmaps, governance, and value realization.
• Proven ability to advise C-suite stakeholders, lead executive workshops and strategic pursuits, develop GTM offerings and business cases, and lead global cross-functional teams. SAP/Enterprise Architecture certifications and global consulting experience preferred.

Benefits

Capgemini offers a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include:

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility