SAP Business Integration Lead

The SAP Business Integration Lead will play a critical role in shaping Avient's global digital transformation journey by leading the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of SAP-enabled business processes. This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership opportunity for an experienced SAP practitioner who has successfully led multiple full lifecycle implementations and thrives in complex, global environments. In this role, you will partner closely with business leaders, system integrators, functional experts, and internal IT teams to translate strategic priorities into scalable, sustainable SAP solutions. You will be expected to own outcomes, anticipate challenges, challenge assumptions constructively, and drive decisions that protect solution quality, program momentum, and long-term business value. This role offers the opportunity to influence a global SAP transformation at scale, working at the intersection of technology, business process, and enterprise change. The successful candidate will have meaningful visibility to senior leaders, the ability to shape how global teams work, and the opportunity to build solutions that enable greater speed, consistency, and insight across Avient. If you are energized by solving complex problems, leading through ambiguity, and creating lasting business value through SAP, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact. Essential Functions - Lead SAP implementation and transformation initiatives end-to-end, including discovery, blueprint/design, build, integration, testing, cutover, deployment, hypercare, and continuous improvement across ECC and/or S/4HANA environments. - Serve as a strategic partner and trusted bridge between business and IT, helping stakeholders make informed decisions on process design, scope, standardization, prioritization, and long-term SAP roadmap alignment. - Challenge business and technical assumptions constructively to ensure project decisions support global process consistency, operational efficiency, scalability, and value realization. - Facilitate global process workshops, requirement-gathering sessions, and fit/gap discussions; convert outcomes into clear functional specifications, design documentation, test scenarios, and implementation plans. - Own solution quality and process fit by ensuring SAP configuration, enhancements, interfaces, and data approaches align with best practices and Avient's standardized global processes rather than perpetuating unnecessary customization. - Proactively identify, assess, escalate, and resolve project risks, issues, dependencies, and decision points; maintain a disciplined approach to issue tracking and closure to prevent delays or downstream business impact. - Direct and hold accountable system integrators, consultants, and third-party partners by reviewing deliverables, validating assumptions, ensuring commitments are met, and driving timely resolution of open items. - Lead and coordinate testing cycles, including SIT, UAT, regression testing, integration testing, defect triage, business readiness validation, and executive status updates related to quality and risk. - Plan and execute cutover and go-live activities, including data migration validation, business readiness, contingency planning, stakeholder communications, and post-go-live stabilization. - Partner with change management, training, and business process owners to support adoption, knowledge transfer, and sustained capability within the organization. - Mentor and guide analysts, functional team members, and business users, raising the overall SAP capability of the team while fostering accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement. - Other duties as assigned. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, or a related field r