S4 Program Quality & Audit Management Lead (m/f/d)
About the Role
Location Germany Bayern Erlangen
1. Country: ROMANIA
2. State/Province/County: Bucuresti
3. City: Bucharest
Company Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG Organization EVP Global Functions Business Unit Digital Process Transformation Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Experienced Professional A Snapshot of Your Day As S4 Program Quality & Audit Management Lead (m/f/d), you will act as a trusted senior partner to Program Leadership, ensuring that Siemens Energy’s S4E S/4HANA transformation is delivered in a controlled, compliant, and audit ready manner.Operating at program wide level, you will provide strategic oversight across Program Management, PMO, Factory Leadership (Solution, Test, Data Migration, Change), with a strong focus on quality governance, quality gates, evidence management, and audit coordination.You will ensure that program and factory deliverables are planned, executed, documented, and signed off in line with defined quality criteria, PM milestones, and regulatory expectations, providing transparency and assurance for management, internal audit, and external auditors.How You’ll Make an Impact
4. Support and enforce the S4E Quality Management Framework across rollouts and factories, ensuring consistent application of quality gates, acceptance criteria, definition of done, and documentation.
5. Coordinate and track quality gate readiness along PM milestones including completeness of deliverables, closure of open points, and preparedness for formal gate reviews and sign offs.
6. Ensure continuous audit readiness by coordinating structured evidence collection, validation, storage, and traceability, and by supporting internal and external audits in line with IDW PS 850 / ISO based quality standards.
7. Align quality activities with the Integrated Program Plan (IPP), ensuring that quality gates, audits and acceptance steps are embedded into program planning, rather than treated as downstream or standalone activities.
8. Track quality related risks, deviations, and non conformities at program level; ensure transparent escalation, mitigation tracking, and management reporting in close alignment with Program leadership and Program Risk Management.
What You Bring
9. University degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, or a comparable field
10. Extensive experience in quality management, audit, PMO, or governance roles within large scale IT or ERP transformations
11. Proven involvement in SAP S/4HANA programs, ideally in highly regulated, audit intensive, or publicly scrutinized environments
12. Deep understanding of quality governance frameworks, gated delivery, and audit principles ( ISO 9001, internal IT audits, IDW PS 850 or comparable standards)
13. Strong track record working with program level operating models, including IPP, milestone driven delivery, and executive governance structures
14. Highly developed analytical, organizational, and stakeholder management skills, with the credibility to challenge and influence senior leaders
15. Excellent communication skills, able to translate complexity into clear, executive level insight for PMO, factory leads, auditors, and management