SAP GxP Validation & Compliance Lead – SAP S/4HANA Transformation

Contract | UK | Mostly Remote | Life Sciences

We are supporting a life sciences business on a major greenfield SAP S/4HANA transformation and are looking for an experienced SAP GxP Validation & Compliance Lead to join the programme on a client-side contract basis.

This is a key leadership role at the very start of a broader business transformation covering process, technology, and operating model. The programme is high-profile, high-impact, and strategically important to the organisation’s future.

The successful consultant will take ownership of the validation strategy, governance, and compliance approach across the programme, while also helping shape a broader enterprise validation framework for the future.

Key responsibilities

• Lead GxP compliance and validation across the SAP S/4HANA transformation programme
• Define and establish the validation strategy, framework, and governance model
• Partner with internal stakeholders and the SI to ensure the programme is delivered in a validated and inspection-ready way
• Oversee validation deliverables, documentation, review, approvals, and sign-off
• Ensure appropriate validation controls are embedded across business design, testing, deployment, and release
• Drive the right testing and compliance approach from a GxP perspective
• Use the programme as a catalyst to help build a more mature future-state validation capability internally

What we are looking for

• Strong experience leading GxP / validation / CSV on SAP S/4HANA programmes
• Background operating in regulated life sciences environments
• Strong understanding of validation strategy, governance, testing oversight, and audit readiness
• Ability to work client-side and engage confidently with programme leadership, quality/compliance stakeholders, and implementation partners
• Comfortable building structure and good practice in an environment where validation maturity is still evolving
• Able to balance hands-on delivery with strategic framework design

Role details

• Initial 6-month contract with strong likelihood of extension
• Programme expected to run for c. 3 years
• Primarily remote
• Occasional travel to UK sites
• ASAP start, ideally within 1 month

This is an excellent opportunity to join a major transformation at an early stage and play a key role in defining how GxP compliance and validation will work for the business going forward.

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