Is Your Hiring Freeze Quietly Derailing Your SAP Strategy?
Stop firefighting. Secure your delivery rhythm and protect your S/4HANA timeline with a 48-Hour SAP Operational Stress Test.
The Real Cost of Your SAP Hiring Freeze
When you freeze hiring, your SAP support function doesn’t just "do more with less." It accumulates hidden risk.
My experience leading a 670-person global SAP delivery organisation shows that understaffed teams eventually reach a breaking point. Backlogs rise, senior leaders get pulled into daily firefighting, and your most critical engineers, the ones holding your S/4HANA timeline together, start looking for the exit.
Saving on headcount is a hollow victory if it creates a tactical vulnerability in your SAP delivery. I provide the senior-level grip needed to shore up your operations and protect your S/4HANA roadmap, securing your timeline without adding a permanent salary to your books.
94% vs 37%
In my previous role, I led a remote-first SAP support organisation comprising 670 professionals. While the industry average for attrition hovered around 37%, our team's retention rate remained at 94%.
High retention in SAP delivery isn't about "perks." It’s about operational rhythm and decisive leadership.
If your current hiring freeze is burning out your best people, you are losing talent and institutional knowledge you can't afford to replace. I’m now working with UK firms to bake that same stability into their SAP teams on a fractional basis.
"A natural leader who leads by example... always manageable even in the most difficult situations." (Dirk Schüller)
"Strategic thinking, strong leadership, and a deep understanding of business operations." (Gaurav Joshi)
"An exceptional leader and mentor... fostered an environment of accountability and self-motivation." (Joe van der Merwe)
"A natural leader who leads by example... always manageable even in the most difficult situations." (Dirk Schüller) "Strategic thinking, strong leadership, and a deep understanding of business operations." (Gaurav Joshi) "An exceptional leader and mentor... fostered an environment of accountability and self-motivation." (Joe van der Merwe)
The Lightning Leadership Pedigree
Scale: Former VP of Global SAP Delivery, managing 670+ professionals.
Fiscal Impact: Delivered 60% gross margin on a $63M annual budget.
Stability: Maintained 94% retention through operational discipline.
Foundation: 17 years of RAF Logistics leadership.
Left unchecked, these pressures compound rather than resolve.
You’ve seen it happen:
Escalations grow faster than resolutions
Senior leaders stay stuck firefighting
Strong managers carry too much and stop delegating
Good people burn out or quietly disengage
These aren’t failures of SAP as a system. They’re signals that the support function needs steadier leadership, clearer cadence, and support in the flow of work. Without that, confidence drops and delivery becomes fragile.
This is where fractional SAP support leadership helps.
A short period of stabilisation, structure, and hands-on mentoring resets rhythm, restores confidence, and gives managers the space to lead again without taking delivery offline.
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Time to steady the ship
If things are starting to creak, they won’t fix themselves. Every week of firefighting costs good people and chips away at delivery confidence.
I don’t do hard sells or discovery “journeys”. We’ll just talk about what’s actually happening and see whether I can help you get things back on rhythm.
