Global Process Owner - SAP Transportation Management

Global Process Owner - SAP Transportation Management

Are you a Transportation Management expert with strong SAP TM experience and a passion for driving global process excellence? Join Sika as our Global Process Owner Transportation Management and take ownership of the end-to-end transportation process landscape, defining and governing global standards, processes, KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization. While the role is business- and process-focused rather than system-specific, you will play a pivotal role in Sika's ongoing global SAP TM transformation, ensuring solution design and rollout decisions remain aligned with global process standards and business requirements.

• Own and govern the global end-to-end Transportation Management process across all regions.
• Define and maintain global process standards, governance principles, policies, KPIs, and documentation.
• Drive process harmonization and standardization, ensuring scalable and sustainable solutions while minimizing unnecessary local deviations.
• Act as the key business authority for transportation process design and process-related decision-making.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Supply Chain, Warehouse Management, Order-to-Cash, Source-to-Pay, Finance, Master Data, and Reporting to ensure end-to-end process alignment.
• Lead continuous process improvement initiatives, maturity assessments, and performance optimization based on KPI insights.
• Govern transportation-related change requests, ensuring alignment with global standards and business objectives.
• Review and approve business requirements, solution designs, and process enhancements together with IT and project teams.
• Act as the Transportation Process Owner within the ongoing Global SAP TM program, ensuring solutions and rollouts align with Sika's global process framework.
• Provide SAP TM expertise during design reviews, testing, rollout preparation, key-user alignment, and business decision-making.
• Support communication, training, user adoption, and stakeholder engagement across the organization.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in process ownership, process management, or continuous improvement within Logistics or Supply Chain.
• Strong expertise in end-to-end transportation processes, including transportation planning, execution, carrier management, freight cost management, settlement, compliance, and performance management.
• Hands-on SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) experience is mandatory, with a strong understanding of TM processes, scenarios, and solution design.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into global process standards and scalable solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills in a global environment.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Willingness to travel internationally (up to 30%)

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Why Join Us

We look forward to your application. For this position, only direct applications will be considered. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at [email protected]

We offer competitive salaries, aligned with local market benchmarks and the specific scope and responsibilities of each role. Compensation is determined based skills relevant to the position, education and/or training.  We are committed to fair and equitable pay practices in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

About Sika

Sika is a specialty chemicals company with a globally leading position in the development and production of systems and products for bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protection in the building sector and industrial manufacturing. Sika has subsidiaries in 103 countries around the world and, in over 400 factories, produces innovative technologies for customers worldwide. In doing so, it plays a crucial role in enabling the transformation of the construction and transportation sector toward greater environmental compatibility. With more than 33,000 employees, the company generated sales of CHF 11.20 billion in 2025.