Head of Skills Management Hub

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Head of Skills Management Hub
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What you'll do:
As the Head of the Skills Management Hub, you will lead a global team responsible for shaping and scaling SAP’s Skills-based People Ecosystem – a strategic key pillar of SAP’s People Agenda. This role partners closely with senior business leaders, global HR executives, and technology teams to infuse skills into every people practice across SAP - unlocking smarter talent decisions, stronger workforce agility, and better talent development for our people.
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Leadership & Team Culture
• Lead and develop a high-performing, globally distributed Skills Management Hub team, fostering a culture of trust, inclusion, accountability, and continuous development.

• Build behaviors of resilience, accountability, and ownership within the team and lead with a global mindset to deliver impact across regions and board areas.

Governance & Global Standards
• Oversee governance, lifecycle management, and harmonization of the Global Job Architecture.
• Manage and evolve the Skills Framework and taxonomy, ensuring it remains accurate, scalable, and relevant to business needs.

Executive Influence & Stakeholder Leadership
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and board members on skills management and global job architecture, delivering compelling executive-level presentations and strategic recommendations.
• Drive business alignment across key HR partners (Total Rewards, Global Labor & Relations, Local Services, Business Partnering) as well as IT & Process Excellence, SuccessFactors product teams, and business strategy and operations leaders.

Embedding Skills Across People Practices
• Integrate skills into core people processes—including Talent Discovery, Learning & Development, Talent Management, and Workforce Planning—to drive consistent, skills-based decision-making across the employee lifecycle.

Skill & Job Data Management, Benchmarking & Analytics
• Establish and oversee data standards, quality, and governance for global skills and job data, enabling reliable reporting and insights.
Partner with Workforce Intelligence, benchmarking providers, and internal analytics teams to derive insights on skills supply and demand, external trends, and future capability needs—translating insights into actionable recommendations for leaders.
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What you bring:
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• Deep expertise in managing global transformation programs, with a proven ability to design, harmonize, and operationalize global frameworks at scale (ideally with reference to skills and job architecture.)

• Project and People Leadership : A track record leading board-visible, enterprise-wide HR programs impacting tens of thousands of employees, including experience interacting with social partners across multiple countries.

• HR Acumen : Broad foundational knowledge of cross-HR domains, such as Global Labor Relations, Rewards & Benefits, Business Partnering, and Talent Management topics.

• Strategic Thinking and Problem-Solving: Hands-on experience at the intersection of learning, talent management, talent discovery, and workforce transformation, ideally in a multinational environment.

[Nice to have]

• Team Player with a Growth Mindset: Proactive process-builder mindset, able to create structure from ambiguity, design scalable solutions, and enable others to execute with clarity.

• Storytelling and Stakeholder Management : Strong communicator and storyteller, able to articulate a vision, inspire followership, and influence senior stakeholders with confidence and credibility.

• Passion for Data and Technology: Leverage data-driven insights and harness your passion for technology to model how AI can enhance skills intelligence and strategic workforce planning.

• Think Globally: Thrives in global environments, working across cultures, time zones, and diverse stakeholder landscapes to drive alignment and outcomes.

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Meet your team
Ready to be a driving force in SAP’s People & Culture’s Organizational Growth and Health unit? Join our Strategic Workforce & Skills Management leadership team! We’re on a mission to embed skills into every aspect of our people practices, championing a scalable and consistent skills approach throughout the employee lifecycle. Imagine leading the Skills Management Hub team, governing the global job architecture and skills frameworks, ensuring role profiles and skill expectations stay relevant and aligned with business needs. It provides skills benchmarking, analytics, and models that inform talent decisions and support adoption across the organization. By partnering with HR and business teams, we drive the integration of skills into Talent Discovery, Learning and Development, Leadership Development, and Talent Management processes—turning skills into a common language for people and talent practices. Are you ready to be a key player in this dynamic team?

Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion
SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

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Requisition ID: 441409 | Work Area: Human Resources | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Executive | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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