SAP S/4HANA PP & QM Consultant – Senior Manager

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Job Description & Summary

About the role

PwCs SAP and Operational Transformation practice is growing to meet strong client demand. Were looking for an experienced Senior Manager to lead SAP S/4HANA Production Planning (PP) and Quality Management (QM) engagements. Youll bring deep functional expertise a consulting mindset and the ability to shape end-to-end solutions that deliver measurable results across industries.

What your days will look like

• Lead and deliver functional consulting across SAP S/4HANA PP and QM from strategy and design through build test cutover and hypercare.

• Shape fit-to-standard designs using SAP Activate; drive integration across MM EWM SD EAM/PM and CO and ensure solution quality and compliance.

• Manage a portfolio of client engagements including planning staffing delivery governance risk/issue management and financials (scope budget margin).

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams (typically 510 people) coaching and developing talent across onshore/offshore models.

• Define project strategies to solve complex technical and operational challenges; review and challenge team outputs to drive robust conclusions.

• Own key delivery workstreams: WRICEF oversight data migration testing/UAT cutover planning and operational readiness.

• Build strong client relationships and stakeholder alignment across Operations Quality Supply Chain Finance and IT.

• Contribute to business development: shape solutions lead demos size and price estimates respond to RFPs/RFIs and draft SoWs.

• Develop IP and accelerators (templates estimation models playbooks) and contribute to thought leadership.

Your focus areas (PP and QM)

• Production Planning:

  • Master data: BOMs routings/recipes work centers/resources production versions.

  • Planning: Demand Management MRP Live pMRP; planning strategies (MTS/MTO/ETO); capacity planning; basics of PP-DS.

  • Execution: Discrete repetitive and process manufacturing; order management confirmations backflush Kanban; settlement and variances.

• Quality Management:

  • Inspection planning: MICs inspection plans sampling procedures Dynamic Modification Rules.

  • Inspection types: Procurement in-process production customer returns recurring and calibration with EAM.

  • Execution: Usage decisions and stock postings defect recording quality notifications and task processing SPC/control charts.

  • Supplier and warehouse quality: Q-info records source inspections QM in procurement and EWM inbound.

  • Integration: Batch management and characteristics-based processes across MM EWM SD and EAM.

This role is for you if:

• You have deep hands-on expertise in SAP S/4HANA (and/or ECC) PP and QM with best-practice process knowledge.

• You have lead multiple end-to-end SAP PP/QM design and implementation programmes delivered (greenfield brownfield or selective).

• You have proven leadership of teams of 510 with strong coaching quality assurance and delivery governance.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills able to engage business and technical audiences and influence decisions.

• Delivery know-how: SAP Activate fit-to-standard Agile ways of working WRICEF governance data migration (e.g. Migration Cockpit) testing and cutover.

• Comfortable with Fiori apps and embedded analytics for PP/QM operations and reporting.

• Beneficial: Experience in MM EWM (including QM in EWM) SD (returns) EAM/PM (calibration) PP-DS IBP Variant Configuration DDMRP.

• Advantageous: Pre-sales exposure (RFPs estimates SoWs demos) and prior consulting experience.

What youll receive from us:

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life our benefits are designed to add value and support recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions. We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.

Education (if blank degree and/or field of study not specified)