Senior Business Analyst, SAP S4 Product Data Management

Position: Senior Business Analyst, SAP S4 Product Data Management [Canada]
Location: Isthmus of Chignecto (River Hébert)

Senior Business Analyst, Product Data Management
Emmerson Packaging is a third-generation family-owned company. We are an industry leader in flexible packaging solutions, and we love what we do! We pride ourselves on meeting and exceeding the highest quality standards in everything we do, including adding talented people to our team! This passion and pride have won us the distinction of being named one of Canada’s Best Managed companies for 17 years running.
This is a full-time, temporary position (salaried 1-year term, with renewal anticipated through go-live and hypercare).
Our Values say it best:
We enhance our lives by helping others succeed
We care about our clients, each other, and our communities
We are responsible for the outcome of our actions
We strive to do the right thing, even if it costs us

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Business Analyst, Product Data Management owns product and master data design for our S/4

HANA program: how Emmerson Packaging defines, structures, governs and converts the data behind every film, bag and roll we make. Clean product data is the foundation for costing, planning, quality and pricing, and this role makes sure it is right on Day 1. A core goal is moving from decentralized data ownership to a centralized, standardized governance model.
Emmerson Packaging is moving from SAP ECC 6.0 to S/4

HANA through a RISE with SAP Brownfield system conversion, and we are hiring experienced business analysts to help lead the design. The program is run by our Program Management Office (PMO) and is the company’s primary strategic initiative. Phase 0 discovery with our systems integrator partners runs through December 2026, followed by Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy and Run. You will shape a Day 1 design for a real manufacturing business, work directly with business process owners in 24 departments, and have visible impact on how the company runs for the next decade.
POSITION DETAILS:

Reports to:

ERP Program Manager and PMO Lead
Team: S/4

HANA implementation team within the PMO, working with business process owners, SMEs and systems integrator consultants

Location:

Hybrid, Atlantic Canada or Ontario, with travel to our Amherst, NS and Belleville, ON plants
Travel:
Up to 25%, heavier during workshops, testing and cutover
JOB TASKS:
Leads fit-to-standard workshops for product master data across sales, purchasing, production, quality, costing and plant maintenance views
Designs the material master in S/4

HANA: material types, units of measure and conversions, classification and characteristics, and batch management
Owns our existing variant configuration (LO-VC) models through conversion: configurable materials, characteristics and classes, dependencies, variant tables, configuration profiles, super BOMs and routings, and variant pricing. Validates them in S/4

HANA, cleans up obsolete logic, and assesses the business case and timing for moving to Advanced Variant Configuration (AVC)
Owns our SAP Document Management (DMS) through conversion: document types, document info records, object links to materials and BOMs, versioning, status workflow and content storage, including specs, print artwork, drawings and certificates
Defines bills of materials, routings/master recipes, work centers and production versions with Production Planning and Quality leads
Leads customer/vendor integration (CVI) to Business Partner: pre-conversion cleansing, number ranges, BP roles and groupings, and post-conversion validation
Builds and leads a centralized master data governance model: clear ownership, data and naming standards, create/change workflows and quality checks in standard S/4

HANA, to de-risk data before conversion and keep it clean after
Leads master data conversion readiness: profiling, cleansing,…