Regional SAP Lead

Job Description:

Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW) is a global Fortune 200 diversified manufacturing company that delivers specialized expertise, innovative thinking, and value-added products to meet critical customer needs in a variety of industries.
ITW, with approximately 16 billion dollars in global revenues, operates 7 major segments with businesses in 52 countries that employ approximately 45,000 women and men. These talented individuals, many of whom have specialized engineering or scientific expertise, contribute to our global leadership in innovation. We are proud of our broad portfolio of more than 19,000 granted and pending patents.

Join a growing ERP team rolling out SAP S/4

HANA in North America for a global automotive supplier. With two implementations live and the third about to begin, our procurement, inventory management, and warehouse execution template is established and continues to evolve with each new division. The third rollout will also introduce SAP EWM for the first time, giving you the chance to lead the warehouse management design and build it into the template.

You'll keep each rollout close to the standard, improve the template where the business needs it, and oversee the variations each ITW division genuinely requires, all while maintaining the decentralized culture that drives our business.

You will be part of a highly visible SAP implementation core team, focused on aligning strategic objectives with tactical demands.

This role is remote, with travel required during key project phases and various support needs. Role

Summary:

As the Regional SAP Lead for MM/IM/EWM, you will own end-to-end processes related to procurement, inventory management, and warehouse execution in an automotive supplier environment. You will:

Deploy and evolve the Procure-to-Pay, Inventory Management, and Warehouse Execution template across new divisions and sites

Support compliance with automotive supply chain requirements such as batch traceability and expendable & returnable packaging management

Collaborate with plant leadership (plant managers, materials managers, purchasing, warehouse and shipping/receiving supervisors) to align current plant processes with the S/4

HANA template

Support change management by translating technical solutions into clear business impacts for Purchasing, Materials, and Warehouse stakeholders.

Collaborate closely with manufacturing, quality, finance, and sales work streams to ensure end-to-end process consistency

Key Responsibilities:

Solution Design & Delivery Act as a long-term owner of the SAP MM/IM/EWM process template, ensuring its evolution through future rollouts and enhancements.

Lead fit-to-template workshops with each new division, confirming where the standard applies and identifying true gaps Recommend the right warehouse solution for each site (Stock Room Management, Basic EWM, or Advanced EWM) based on operational complexity and licensing cost Design warehouse structures and processes in EWM, including inbound receiving, putaway, picking, production supply staging, outbound shipping, and RF/mobile execution

Engage with key users to shape procurement, inventory, and warehouse processes in SAP that balance common foundations with local agility

Strengthen the template’s automotive procurement processes, including scheduling agreements and forecast delivery schedules, subcontracting/outside processing, supplier consignment, and inter-plant/intercompany stock transfers

Own template governance: evaluate division-specific requirements, approve only justified variations, and document them so the core template stays intact

Identify and prioritize template improvements using lessons learned from completed rollouts, maintaining a fit-to-standard, clean-core…