SAP Senior Consultant - Production Planning (S/4HANA)

About the Role

As an SAP Senior Consultant - Production Planning, you will lead and deliver high quality SAP Manufacturing and Production Planning solutions, primarily within S/4HANA environments. You will play a key role in translating complex manufacturing and operational requirements into scalable SAP PP solutions aligned to industry best practice.

Your tasks and responsibilities

• Lead full cycle SAP PP implementations across multiple industries, from discovery through to go live and aftercare
• Translate manufacturing and production planning business requirements into scalable SAP S/4HANA solutions
• Design, configure and optimise SAP PP processes including:
  • Demand Management
  • MRP and capacity planning
  • BOMs, routings and work centres
  • Production orders and execution
• Facilitate workshops to define manufacturing processes, confirm requirements and document functional specifications
• Collaborate closely with MM, QM, SD, EWM and IBP consultants to deliver integrated end to end solutions
• Support solution design for advanced manufacturing scenarios including make to order, make to stock and variant configuration
• Work with technical teams on enhancements, interfaces, data migration and integrations (S/4HANA, MES or third party systems)
• Support testing activities including unit testing, SIT and UAT, and manage defect triage and resolution
• Contribute to cutover planning, data validation and go live readiness activities
• Deliver training, knowledge transfer and high quality documentation to business and IT stakeholders
• Provide post go live support and continuous improvement recommendations
• Support pre sales activities where required, including discovery workshops, estimates, proposals and solution demonstrations

Your qualifications and experience

• Proven experience delivering SAP PP solutions, ideally across multiple end to end implementations
• Strong hands on experience with SAP S/4HANA Production Planning (ECC experience also valued)
• Excellent understanding of manufacturing and planning processes including MRP, capacity planning and production execution
• Experience working in a consulting environment, owning delivery outcomes and client relationships
• Strong workshop facilitation, documentation and stakeholder engagement skills
• Exposure to or experience with adjacent modules such as MM, QM, SD, IBP, PP/DS, Digital Manufacturing or EWM highly regarded
• Strong testing, data validation and UAT support experience
• Pre sales experience (discovery, scoping, estimation or demos) is desirable but not essential
• SAP PP certification or formal SAP training highly regarded
• A growth mindset and passion for working with modern SAP technologies

What we offer

• Work with SAP's latest technologies on cloud such as S/4HANA, BTP and Joule
• A flexible and supportive work environment including the ability to work from anywhere in Australia or New Zealand
• Competitive remuneration and benefits including novated lease, birthday leave, salary packaging, wellbeing programme, additional purchased leave, and company provided laptop
• Comprehensive SAP training and certifications
• Join a renowned organisation delivering projects to some of APAC's leading enterprises