[The Netherlands] SAP Architect

Santen is a specialized company with a proud 130-year heritage focused exclusively on eye health. As a Japan-originated, global company with our footprint in over 60 countries and regions, our mission is to provide essential and significant value to patients and society through our products and services created from our expertise in ophthalmology and from the patient’s perspective.

As an SAP Architect within the Global ERP Center of Expertise, you will play a key role in shaping and governing Santen’s global ERP architecture. You will work closely with business and IT stakeholders to design scalable, cost-effective SAP solutions, drive large-scale transformations, and maximize business value across a complex, multi-regional ERP landscape.

Please note that interviews will start from the second week of January.

What you will do

• Define and own the global ERP and SAP architecture vision, aligned with business strategy and the DIT roadmap

• Establish and maintain architecture standards, principles, and governance processes across regions

• Engage with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, fit-for-purpose solution designs

• Lead and oversee ERP and satellite system implementations, including S/4HANA and integrated platforms

• Provide architectural, functional, and technical guidance to regional ERP teams and project resources

• Drive continuous improvement and innovation across SAP landscapes, including S/4HANA and SAP BTP

• Ensure solutions deliver measurable business value while optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO)

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, service partners, and global business teams

• Stay current on SAP technologies, industry trends, and best practices, guiding their effective adoption

What you will bring to the role

• 12+ years of experience in SAP consulting, systems integration, or architecture roles, with strong exposure to complex enterprise environments

• Proven track record (8+ years) leading large-scale SAP transformation initiatives across global or multi-regional landscapes

• Extensive SAP expertise with the ability to quickly observe, assess, and adopt new technologies within the SAP ecosystem and beyond

• Strong capability to translate complex technical solutions into clear business value, outcomes, and decision-ready insights

• Excellent presentation and storytelling skills, able to convey ideas through simple, visual explanations that are easily understood by business stakeholders

• Deep functional and technical knowledge of SAP solutions such as S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, BW/4HANA, SuccessFactors, and related satellite systems

• Solid understanding of integration patterns, APIs, middleware solutions, and hybrid architectures across SAP and non-SAP platforms

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern enterprise architecture principles - Architecture Certification is desiderable.

• Fluent in English; additional languages such as Japanese are considered a strong plus

Grow your career at Santen

A career at Santen is an opportunity to make a difference. We aspire to contribute to the realization of “Happiness with Vision” by providing eye health products and services to patients, consumers, and medical professionals around the world. Guided by our CORE PRINCIPLE, “Tenki ni sanyo suru”, Santen is engaged in the global research & development, manufacturing, and sales and marketing of pharmaceutical products in ophthalmology. We have team members around the world using their diverse talents to unlock new modalities and drive innovations for patient outcomes, education and treatment. At Santen, we believe in empowering all our team members with flexible ways of working and a highly inclusive work environment. 

The Santen Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building diverse teams and ensuring a safe and inclusive physical and virtual workplace for every one of our team members. All employment decisions are based on business needs, role requirements and individual qualifications regardless of race, color, ethnicity, national origin/ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/ expression, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.  

If you require any kind of accommodation during our recruitment process, please let the recruiter from our team know.