Regional SAP Lead

Job Description:

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

Key Responsibilities

Solution Design & Delivery

• 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

Data & Testing

• 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.

Training

• Train key users based on configured processes

• Provide post-go-live functional support and transition solution ownership to local teams

Leadership & Ownership

• Act as functional lead during future rollouts

• Collaborate with external consultants during pilot implementation

• Communicate status, risks, and progress clearly to project leadership

Support

• For divisions that are live on SAP, act as second-level support for Manufacturing & Quality related support requests

Key Skills & Qualifications:

Must-Have:

• 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-Have:

• 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)

Travel Requirement: Up to 50%, based on project phase

Compensation Information:

$120,000-$130,000 base plus bonus

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