SAP GxP Validation & Compliance Lead
Posted 2 days ago by Discover International
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The SAP GxP Validation & Compliance Lead will play a crucial leadership role in a major SAP S/4HANA transformation for a life sciences business. This position involves defining the validation strategy and governance while ensuring compliance throughout the programme. The consultant will also help develop a future enterprise validation framework. The role is primarily remote with occasional travel to UK sites and is expected to last for an initial 6-month contract with a strong likelihood of extension.
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
Key Skills:
- 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
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
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. If relevant, please get in touch directly.