SAP PP / Manufacturing Functional Consultant

Sopra Steria • Kinston, NC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Sopra Steria is seeking an experienced SAP PP / Manufacturing Functional Consultant to work onsite with a client in Kinston, USA. The consultant will serve as a key interface between manufacturing business teams and SAP/IT delivery teams, partnering with production, planning, shop-floor, quality, logistics, and IT stakeholders. This client-facing role involves independently leading business discussions and workshops, assessing requirements, recommending practical SAP solutions, and driving topics through design, testing, deployment, and stabilization.

The consultant will lead SAP Production Planning and manufacturing functional activities, analyze manufacturing processes, and configure and support SAP PP capabilities such as MRP, MPS, production orders, planned orders, bills of material, routings, work centers, capacity planning, shop-floor control, production execution, and manufacturing master data. The role supports end-to-end manufacturing scenarios and integration with SAP MM, QM, EWM/WM, PM, FI/CO, and other manufacturing systems.

The position also includes AS-IS/TO-BE analysis, fit-gap assessments, functional specifications, process designs, configuration requirements, and user stories. The consultant will collaborate with technical and integration teams on enhancements and related solutions, lead or support testing and UAT, and contribute to cutover, deployment, go-live, hypercare, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, documentation, and knowledge transfer. The posting specifies onsite work with the client in Kinston, while also describing a hybrid work environment among the benefits for Sopra Steria Canada.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of overall SAP functional experience, with strong specialization in SAP PP/Production Planning and manufacturing.
• Strong hands-on SAP PP functional and configuration experience.
• Strong understanding of discrete manufacturing and production execution processes.
• Experience with MRP, production orders, BOMs, routings, work centers, capacity planning, shop-floor control, and manufacturing master data.
• Experience participating in multiple end-to-end SAP implementation, rollout, transformation, or enhancement programs.
• Strong understanding of integration between PP and MM, QM, EWM/WM, PM, and FI/CO.
• Experience leading requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, process-design workshops, and functional solution discussions.
• Excellent client-facing communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with manufacturing business teams and senior business stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently onsite and own functional topics from requirements through deployment.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Information Technology, or a related discipline.

Nice To Haves

• SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing experience is strongly preferred.
• SAP S/4HANA implementation or migration experience.
• Experience in aerospace, aviation, automotive, or complex industrial manufacturing.
• Experience working directly with production and shop-floor organizations.
• Knowledge of MES integration with SAP PP, particularly production-order and manufacturing-execution flows.
• Exposure to SAP QM and manufacturing quality processes.
• Experience with SAP Fiori applications for manufacturing.
• SAP PP/S/4HANA certification.
• Experience in large, global manufacturing organizations and distributed delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Lead functional activities for SAP Production Planning (PP) and manufacturing processes.
• Analyze current manufacturing processes and define SAP solutions aligned with operational requirements.
• Configure and support SAP PP capabilities, including MRP, MPS, production orders, planned orders, BOMs, routings, work centers, capacity planning, shop-floor control, production execution, and manufacturing master data.
• Support end-to-end manufacturing scenarios across planning, production execution, material consumption, confirmations, and finished-goods receipt.
• Ensure effective integration between SAP PP and MM, QM, EWM/WM, PM, FI/CO, and other manufacturing systems.
• Act as a trusted functional advisor to manufacturing and business stakeholders and build relationships with business, shop-floor, IT, and project stakeholders.
• Lead business workshops, process walkthroughs, requirements-gathering sessions, fit-gap assessments, and solution-design discussions.
• Translate operational requirements into practical SAP solutions; communicate SAP capabilities, constraints, alternatives, and business impacts; and constructively challenge requirements where appropriate.
• Drive alignment and decisions among business, functional, technical, and integration teams.
• Conduct AS-IS/TO-BE process analysis and identify functional gaps.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, process designs, configuration requirements, and user stories.
• Collaborate with SAP technical and development teams on enhancements, interfaces, reports, forms, and workflows.
• Review proposed solutions with business stakeholders and obtain functional alignment.
• Support SAP implementation, transformation, rollout, enhancement, and stabilization activities; identify and resolve functional dependencies, risks, and integration impacts.
• Define end-to-end manufacturing functional test scenarios and lead or support unit testing, SIT, regression testing, and UAT.
• Coordinate with business users during UAT and support defect analysis and resolution.
• Support cutover preparation, data validation, deployment, go-live, and hypercare.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis across SAP and integrated manufacturing processes.
• Provide knowledge transfer, user guidance, and functional documentation.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive benefits package, with premiums fully covered by Sopra Steria: life insurance, long-term disability, health, dental, and vision coverage, plus a health spending account.
• Paid sick leave and personal days, and three weeks of vacation.
• Monthly transportation allowance.
• Learning, development, and career advancement opportunities, with active support to strengthen skills.
• Caring, collaborative, and inclusive company culture.
• Hybrid work environment.
• Equipment needed to work productively from day one.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior