Need of SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management Lead

Job Title: SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management Lead

Location: Remote + Travel (Expenses Paid)

Duration: 6+ months

Role Overview

Lead the design, configuration, and implementation of the SuccessFactors Talent Management suite. The ideal candidate will have strong functional and implementation experience across Performance & Goals (PM/GM), Succession Planning (SP), Career Development Planning (CDP), and Compensation, with the ability to lead client discussions, drive design decisions, and coordinate activities across functional and technical teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design and implementation of SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management solutions, with primary responsibility for Performance & Goals, Succession Planning, Career Development Planning, and Compensation.
• Facilitate client workshops to gather requirements, validate business processes, identify gaps, and define future-state Talent Management processes.
• Provide functional leadership and subject matter expertise, translating business requirements into scalable SuccessFactors solutions aligned with leading practices.
• Own and drive solution design decisions across the Talent modules, ensuring consistency and integration across the broader SuccessFactors landscape.
• Lead configuration, testing, defect resolution, and deployment activities for assigned Talent modules.
• Partner with business stakeholders to design performance management processes, goal plans, forms, route maps, competencies, and calibration processes.
• Lead Succession and Career Development design, including talent pools, succession nominations, career paths, development plans, mentoring, and talent review processes.
• Lead Compensation design, including compensation worksheets, eligibility rules, guidelines, budgets, salary planning, bonus considerations, and approval workflows.
• Identify dependencies and integration requirements with other SuccessFactors modules, including Employee Central, Recruiting, Learning, and People Analytics, as applicable.
• Coordinate with integration, data, reporting, security, and technical teams to ensure an end-to-end solution.
• Support data migration, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, cutover, and go-live readiness.
• Provide guidance and oversight to functional consultants and other team members supporting the Talent workstream.
• Proactively identify risks, issues, and design dependencies and drive them through resolution.
• Develop and maintain functional design documentation, configuration workbooks, test scenarios, and other project deliverables.
• Build strong relationships with client stakeholders and effectively communicate recommendations, risks, decisions, and project status.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on implementation experience with SAP SuccessFactors Talent Management.
• Demonstrated expertise in:
• Performance & Goals (PM/GM)
• Succession Planning (SP)
• Career Development Planning (CDP)
• Compensation
• Experience leading at least one end-to-end SuccessFactors implementation, preferably in a large or complex enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of Talent Management business processes and their relationship to the broader employee lifecycle.
• Ability to independently lead requirements and design workshops with business and HR stakeholders.
• Strong SuccessFactors configuration and solution design experience.
• Experience with testing, defect management, cutover, and deployment activities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, dependencies, and stakeholders in a fast-paced implementation environment.
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to operate effectively as a functional lead while remaining hands-on when required.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP SuccessFactors certifications in one or more relevant Talent modules.
• Experience implementing multiple SuccessFactors Talent modules as part of a full-suite SuccessFactors transformation.
• Experience integrating Talent Management with Employee Central and other SuccessFactors modules.
• Experience with global or multi-country implementations.
• Experience leading or coordinating offshore/onshore functional teams.
• Strong understanding of SuccessFactors implementation methodology and leading practices.