File · SRX-2603 / Netherlands (EMEA) · Open

Senior SAP MM Consultant — SAP S/4HANA

Procure-to-pay architecture · SAP domain

A configuration authority, not a workshop facilitator. This mandate is for the consultant who builds the materials-management backbone a Dutch corporate still relies on three years after go-live.

Discipline
Enterprise ERP
Seniority
Senior · 10+ years
Languages
Dutch & English
Work mode
Hybrid — Netherlands
Employment
Full-time · Contract or permanent
Listed
16 Aug 2026

How to approach this mandate

No application form. No CV portal. Read the position brief, then speak with Harald directly, under confidence.

The client is not named here. On an engaged mandate the client's hiring intent is commercially sensitive, so the organisation is identified to you under confidence in the first partner conversation — not published to their competitors.

The remit

Why this role exists now. And what it carries.

The Netherlands is mid-way through the largest ERP transition in a generation. Migration off SAP ECC to S/4HANA is funded and live inside most mid-to-large Dutch corporates, and the window narrows as mainstream maintenance on ECC ends in 2027.

Materials management is where those programmes most often slip. Procure-to-pay touches procurement, finance and warehouse simultaneously; material ledger activation in S/4HANA is mandatory rather than optional; and data migration for material master, vendor master, open POs and stock balances rarely survives first contact with a real landscape. The scarce profile is the consultant who is genuinely hands-on in the system, not only in the workshop.

The client is running an active S/4HANA implementation and needs the MM authority the project team defers to — through configuration, integration testing, cutover and hypercare.

What the role carries

  • Own the functional architecture for procure-to-pay, inventory management, valuation and invoice verification, from requirements through blueprint sign-off.
  • Configure SAP MM hands-on in S/4HANA environments and lead unit, integration and UAT cycles.
  • Lead fit-gap and blueprint sessions with procurement directors, CFOs and warehouse managers, translating Dutch business requirements into S/4HANA-aligned process design.
  • Manage functional specifications for ABAP developments — enhancements, BADIs, user exits and ME* transaction extensions.
  • Configure and troubleshoot cross-module interdependencies with FI/CO, SD, LE and PP across the procure-to-pay cycle.
  • Lead data migration for material master, vendor master, open purchase orders and stock balances, then drive cutover planning and hypercare.
  • Guide medior and junior consultants through solution reviews and quality gates, and hold documentation standards.

The brief

The challenge, the mandate, and the impact.

The challenge

The client's S/4HANA programme has scope, budget and a deadline, but no settled MM authority. Procure-to-pay design decisions are being deferred, material ledger and valuation questions sit unresolved, and migration objects for material and vendor master are unowned. The constraint is hands-on functional depth, not project governance.

The mandate

Reports into the lead SAP architect. Full functional ownership of the MM scope — blueprint, configuration, integration testing, cutover and hypercare — with specification authority over ABAP developments in scope and quality-gate responsibility for medior and junior consultants. No line management; the authority is technical.

The impact

6 months
Assigned MM scope configured, integration-tested and signed off; go-live delivered or final testing advanced; recognised as the MM authority by both project team and client.
12 months
Hypercare closed out, the procure-to-pay backbone stable under real volume, and next-phase or rollout scope shaped rather than inherited.

35

Median days to shortlist

Category norm: 84–120 days

8 in 10

12-month retention

Category norm: ~60% at 18 months

90 days

Replacement guarantee

With backfill

1

Partner, start to close

Never delegated

Index reading

The market reading behind the brief.

This mandate is not written from a job description. It is written from our own quarterly reading of how these roles are being eliminated, redefined and created in this corridor.

Where this mandate sits in the market

Current Q3 displacement intensity in the sectors that frame this search. Higher intensity means more leadership turnover and sharper talent scarcity.

  • Tech ConsultingDisplaced · 9/9
  • SaaS & CloudDisplaced · 9/9
  • WorkforceExposed · 7/9

Read the full Displacement Index — 7 sectors across APAC, EMEA and the GCC.

The profile

Who closes this. And on what terms.

Critical

  • Hands-on MM configuration

    Comfortable in the system across purchasing, inventory and invoice verification — not only in workshops.

  • S/4HANA delivery evidence

    Brownfield or greenfield, with material ledger and S/4HANA-specific MM innovations in scope.

  • Cross-module fluency

    MM against FI/CO, SD, LE and PP; you design in process flows, not transactions.

  • Dutch and English

    Cultural fluency with Dutch directness and consensus decision-making is a working requirement.

Differentiators

  • Central Procurement and Strategic Sourcing delivery on S/4HANA.
  • Migration experience via LTMC across material master, vendor master and stock balances.
  • Existing relationships with SIs, SAP Nederland or Dutch end-user organisations.
  • Track record mentoring consultants through quality gates.

What the client offers

  • A senior seat on a live S/4HANA implementation with real configuration ownership, not a coordination role.
  • Day rate or salary benchmarked to Netherlands market standards for senior SAP MM consultants.
  • Contract or permanent engagement — the model is set in the scope conversation, before commitment.
  • Direct access to procurement, finance and warehouse decision-makers rather than a layer of programme management.
  • Hybrid working from the Netherlands.
Scope
Procure-to-pay, inventory, valuation, invoice verification
Landscape
S/4HANA (cloud or on-premise) · material ledger active
Engagement
Contract or permanent · EUR day rate or salary
Reports to
Lead SAP Architect / programme lead

The approach

How this mandate runs. Partner-led, end to end.

01 · Day 0–1

Approach

You reach out — through this page, the partner's direct line, or a confidential booking. No application form, no CV upload to a portal. The first conversation is about fit, not paperwork.

02 · Days 2–7

Partner conversation

Harald Agterhuis, the partner who signed this mandate, speaks with you directly. The conversation establishes whether the role and your delivery record genuinely align before anyone invests further.

03 · Days 8–21

Client introduction

If the fit holds, Harald introduces you to the hiring client under confidence. The client sees a short, serious shortlist — not a pile of CVs. You meet the decision-makers and test the role against what you need.

04 · Days 22–35

Decision

The client decides. If it's a yes, Harald works the offer with you and the client to land it — including counter-offer defence. If it's a no, you get a direct debrief, not silence.

Your partner on this mandate

Harald H.R. Agterhuis
Harald H.R. Agterhuis

Founder · Amsterdam · Dubai

Works across all corridors. Thirty years placing technology executives across APAC and EMEA, personally, mandate by mandate.

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Where this mandate connects

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