Regional SAP Lead
About The Position
Join a growing ERP team leading a greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation in North America for a global automotive supplier. You'll help define and deploy standardized processes in Manufacturing and Quality, while maintaining the decentralized culture that drives our business. This is a unique opportunity to shape a modern ERP from the ground up, developing standard processes while also designing solutions that can adapt to the unique needs of each ITW division. You will be part of a highly visible SAP implementation core team, focused on aligning strategic objectives with tactical demands. As the Senior SAP S/4HANA Lead for Manufacturing & Quality, you will own end-to-end processes related to production planning, shop-floor execution, and quality management in an automotive supplier environment. You will: Implement Batch Traceability, Production Scheduling and Production Execution processes Support compliance with automotive quality requirements such as PPAP, incoming/in-process inspection, and labeling Collaborate with site leadership (plant managers, quality engineers, production supervisors) to adapt current processes within S/4HANA Support change management by translating technical solutions into clear business impacts for Manufacturing and Quality stakeholders. Collaborate closely with logistics, finance and sales workstreams to ensure end-to-end process consistency
Requirements
- 5-7 years of hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA and at least 1-2 implementations for SAP S/4HANA within the automotive supplier industry
- Deep expertise in PP, PE, PP/DS, and QM modules within automotive manufacturing and quality contexts
- Strong understanding of automotive supplier operations (traceability, lean, labeling, expendable & returnable packaging)
- Experience with BOMs, routings, production scheduling, and MES integration
- Track record in SAP transformation projects including blueprint, configuration, data migration, testing, user training, and go-live
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to SAP BTP, ABAP, Fiori apps
- Experience with SAP RISE S/4HANA Private Cloud
- Knowledge of process-oriented manufacturing (PP-PI) and planning integration (APO/CIF)
Responsibilities
- Act as a long-term owner of the SAP Manufacturing & Quality process template, ensuring its evolution through future rollouts and enhancements.
- Lead business requirement discovery and configuration workshops
- Engage with key users to shape Manufacturing and Quality processes in SAP that balance common foundations with local agility
- Build, test, and validate a scalable ERP template
- Coordinate with divisional teams to prepare and validate data
- Guide user acceptance testing and assist in test script creation
- Ensure Manufacturing and Quality processes in SAP support compliance, auditability, and strong master data governance.
- Train key users based on configured processes
- Provide post-go-live functional support and transition solution ownership to local teams
- Act as functional lead during future rollouts
- Collaborate with external consultants during pilot implementation
- Communicate status, risks, and progress clearly to project leadership
- For divisions that are live on SAP, act as second-level support for Manufacturing & Quality related support requests
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
