SAP S4 Production Planning - Expert Lead

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We are looking for SAP S4 Production Planning - Expert Lead

SAP S4 PP Expert
Description Seasoned SAP Production Planning professional to be part of a complex, global migration to SAP S/4HANA. Responsible for leading and coordinating the SAP PP functional stream within a high-pressure environment, managing multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams, and ensuring end-to-end production planning process alignment across a global landscape.

This role requires a blend of deep functional expertise in SAP PP (ECC & S/4HANA) and strong technical understanding of the SAP platform, enabling the consultant to produce high-quality functional specifications, review and assess SAP Notes, and collaborate effectively with ABAP and integration teams.

The candidate must demonstrate solid knowledge of S/4HANA extensibility principles, including Clean Core strategy, released APIs, and standard enhancement frameworks, ensuring that custom developments align with SAP best practices and long-term upgradeability.

Experience 

• Experience: Minimum of 10+ years in the SAP ecosystem.
• Proven Track Record: At least 2 full-lifecycle S/4HANA large/global migrations (Brownfield, Greenfield, or Selective Data Transition).
• Deep experience in Manufacturing, specifically within the Building Materials or Mining sectors (understanding supply chain is critical)
• Technical Literacy: Strong background in managing PP cycles and complex system integrations (BTP).
  Languages English (C1-C2), Spanish (Native) Home-office Allowed, upon request to direct report
  
  Position – Requirements Position - Responsibilities
• Bachelor’s degree in IT management or related field.
• Understanding of general finance and budgeting, including profit and loss, balance sheet and cash-flow management.
• Ability to build consensus and relationships among managers, partners, and employees
• Excellent communication skills.
• Solid understanding of financial and project delivery management.
• Global Mindset: Experience working with distributed teams across different time zones and cultures.
• Resilience: A proven ability to remain composed and decisive under extreme project pressure.
• Collaboration: A "team-first" mentality with the ability to break down silos between functional and technical workstreams.
  
  
• 1. End-to-End Migration Leadership: Lead the full lifecycle of the S/4HANA migration, ensuring "Best Practice" adoption while managing complex legacy technical debt.
• 2. Team Orchestration: Directly manage PP Functional teams to ensure custom code remediation and interface stability (at least 20-40 developers).
• 3. Stakeholder Management: Navigate the demands of a global company, communicating effectively with C-suite executives and local site leads.
• 4. Landscape Complexity: Manage multi-tier landscapes, ensuring synchronization between global templates and local requirements.
• 5. Performance Under Pressure: Maintain project velocity and team morale within tight deadlines and high-accountability environments.

Technical Competences
1. S/4HANA Modern Development Paradigm
a. The Production Planning Lead must drive the transition from ECC-based Manufacturing processes to SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing best practices, enforcing standardization, simplification, and real-time production processing enabled by new S/4 HANA Manufacturing functionality (as MRP Live, PPDS, IBP, Digital Manufacturing).
b. Strong understanding of CDS Views and S/4HANA Embedded Analytics from a Manufacturing perspective, enabling the lead to define functional requirements for real-time manufacturing reporting, guide the use of standard analytical content (production quantity, consumptions, scrap, capacity planning), and minimize the need for custom reports.
c. Ability to design Manufacturing processes and reporting models that leverage HANA in-memory capabilities, reducing data duplication, reconciliation efforts, and batch processing, while ensuring efficient handling of high-volume manufacturing transactions.
d. Capability to guide the adoption of SAP Fiori apps for Manufacturing, including production planning, production execution, master data, production control and costing, capacity management, quality integration, analytics and KPIs, advanced planning and scheduling, ensuring an intuitive user experience aligned with role-based access, segregation of duties, and standard SAP UX principles.
2. Migration & Remediation Strategy
a. Since you require experience in at least two migrations, the leader must be an expert in the tools that bridge the gap between old and new systems.
b. Proficiency with the PP test strategy definition (SIT, UAT, Regression, Integration).
c. Data Migration Cockpit (SMC): Technical understanding of the LTMC (Legacy Transfer Migration Cockpit) and staging tables for large-scale data ingestion.
d. Simplification Database: Deep knowledge of the S/4HANA Simplification List to predict how standard process changes (like Business Partner conversion) affect custom code.
3. Integration & Extensibility (The "Clean Core")
a. Ownership of PP integration and extensibility under SAP S/4HANA Clean Core principles, ensuring standard-driven process design and minimizing customizations. Governance of integrations between PP and FI, SD, MM, QM and external systems using standard APIs, IDocs and event-based integration. Definition and control of extensibility strategy (in-app and side-by-side on SAP BTP), ensuring upgrade-safe solutions, long-term maintainability, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards across global S/4HANA landscapes
b. SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform): Knowledge of Side-by-Side Extensibility to build custom apps outside the core ERP.
c. Integration Suite / CPI: Managing the integration team requires understanding iFlows, API Management, and Event Mesh for real-time data exchange with factory floor systems (MES) or IoT sensors in mining.
d. Legacy Protocols: Continued mastery of ALE/IDoc, RFC, and BAPIs, as these often remain critical for integrating with older manufacturing equipment and external manufacturing applications.
4. Landscape & Governance
a. gCTS (Git-enabled CTS): Modernizing the transport process using Git for version control within the SAP landscape.
b. Performance Tuning: In heavy industry, a poorly written report can lock a production table. The leader must be an expert in ST05 (SQL Trace) and SAT (Runtime Analysis) to ensure system stability.

Work Conditions:

• Overtime may be required in meeting critical issues, deadlines and SLA’s
• Sitting for extended periods of time
• Physically able to participate in training sessions, presentations, meetings and project/rollout activities
• Travel will be required for the purpose of meeting with client, stakeholders, and/or off-site project activities and meetings Tools & Methodologies:
• Demonstrate experience using SAP Activate, and Agile Methodologies, SAP Solution Manager / SAP Readiness Check 2.0 and Simplification Item Catalog. SAP Cloud ALM for process governance, testing and release management.
• Knowledge of Project Management (not necessarily PMP certified)
• Strong functional proficiency in leveraging SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing tools and platforms relevant to ECC to S/4HANA migrations, including SAP Readiness Check, Custom Code Migration apps (manufacturing impact analysis), S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, SAP Fiori Apps Library for Manufacturing, and Embedded Analytics (CDS-based manufacturing content). Solid understanding of SAP HANA architecture and SAP BTP capabilities to define functional requirements for manufacturing reporting, compliance, and analytics, as well as side-by-side extensions, ensuring alignment with Clean Core principles, regulatory compliance, and upgrade-safe SAP S/4HANA manufacturing solutions.
  
  

We offer:

• Constant professional growth and development
• Legal and additional benefits
• Excellent work environment

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