SAP PP/Manufacturing Consultant

Responsibilities

• Act as a business consultant to help customers achieve their objectives understanding the importance of communication in a consultant's role
• Lead and/or support SAP initiatives across Production Execution, Shop Floor Processes and Manufacturing Solutions (MP&S, DMC, MES) with hands-on expertise in S/4HANA Cloud / SAP Public & Private Cloud. Work on multiple projects as a team lead or key project member, ensuring successful delivery.
• Configure and troubleshoot SAP PP and Manufacturing components, ensuring strong cross-functional integration with MM, QM, EWM and logistics areas.
• Conduct fit-to-standard and other types of working sessions to understand needs driven by business process requirements. Translate requirements into solutions, using SAP Best Practices
• Prepare clear and concise documentation and provide timely status updates throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and advise leadership on the business impact of design and process decisions. Support end users from a functional and/or technical perspective, helping them refine and optimize shop-floor operations
• Deliver knowledge transfer to clients and colleagues in structured and on demand formats.
• Apply strong problem-solving skills with deep technical and functional understanding of production execution, manufacturing operations, SAP cloud capabilities, and integration with external systems

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Travel up to 50%
• 7 years of SAP experience with a minimum of 2 full-cycle SAP implementations
• Excellent understanding of manufacturing operations, production execution, and shop-floor processes
• Expert in set-up and configuration of PP and manufacturing solutions as well as cross functional design/build MM and LE moules.
• Highly skilled in PP master data set-up, cleansing, harmonization and migration, including LSMW and Migration Cockpit
• Proficient across all project phase. This includes the ability to lead sessions and create requirements to develop the right client solution
• Advanced ability to create impact analyses to make recommendations, Proven capability to execute to plan and drive solution adoption

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in additional SAP modules
• Knowledge of SAP Joule, AI/ML, and Big Data concepts
• Understanding of LMS, LBN, Ariba, and SAP BTP
• Familiarity with automation, MES integrations, and external manufacturing systems
• Experience working across regions (NAFTA, LATAM, EMEA)
• S/4HANA certification
• Experience implementing SAP Cloud ERP environments