S4 Hana Principal Config Analyst SAP

S4 Hana Principal Config Analyst SAP

Date: Mar 20, 2026

Location: Lakewood, CO, US

Requisition : 34810

At Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, our 8,000+ global associates proud to come to work each day, knowing that what we do impacts the lives of patients around the world.
For Terumo, for Everyone, Everywhere.

We make medical devices and related products that are used to collect, separate, manufacture and process various components of blood and cells. With our innovative technologies and service offerings, we touch a patient’s life every second of every day and are committed to continuing to increase the number of patients we serve.
Advancing healthcare with heart.

With some of the best and brightest minds in the industry, an unmatched global footprint, comprehensive benefits and a distinct culture, Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies is a great place to work, grow and be part of a team that is focused on making a difference.
Join us and help shape wherever we go next. You create your future and ours.

This role provides deep functional and configuration leadership within an existing global SAP ECC environment that is actively transitioning to SAP S/4

HANA Private Cloud
, with a strong emphasis on Production Planning (PP/MRP) and the introduction and adoption of PP/DS
. The position is responsible for stabilizing, optimizing, and extending ECC-based manufacturing planning capabilities while designing forward-compatible solutions aligned to SAP S/4

HANA and SAP PP/DS roadmaps.

The Principal Configuration Analyst acts as a bridge between manufacturing operations, supply chain planning, and IT—ensuring continuity of operations during transformation, minimizing technical debt, and enabling advanced planning capabilities without disrupting regulated manufacturing environments.

• Own and enhance SAP ECC PP/MRP configuration to ensure reliable and compliant production planning and execution across global manufacturing sites.
• Support and optimize:
  • Discrete and repetitive manufacturing strategies
  • Work centers, routings, bills of material (BOMs), and production versions
  • MRP parameters, lot sizing, lead times, and planning strategies
  • Capacity evaluation and rough-cut capacity planning
  • Production order creation, release, confirmation, and settlement
  • Yield management, scrap handling, and variance analysis
  • Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Finance to resolve planning and execution issues impacting service level, inventory, and cost.

• Lead functional design and readiness activities for the transition from ECC PP/MRP to S/4
  
  HANA with PP/DS
  , including delta analysis and process harmonization.
• Define PP/DS functional scope
  , planning models, and heuristics aligned to business requirements (finite scheduling, sequencing, constraint-based planning).
• Collaborate with BASIS, integration, and architecture teams to ensure PP/DS design aligns with S/4
  
  HANA Private Cloud constraints and SAP best practices.
• Translate ECC planning constructs (MRP, capacity, production versions) into S/4
  
  HANA-compatible and PP/DS-ready designs
  .
• Actively reduce custom code dependency by prioritizing standard configuration and extensibility options.

• Validate SAP solutions against business and regulatory requirements, recommending process change where SAP standard provides a superior outcome.
• Functional requirements and specifications
• End-to-end process flows and swim lanes
• Configuration rationale and design decisions
• Develop and execute test strategies, scenarios, and scripts supporting GxP / GAMP 5 / CSV validation for manufacturing systems.
• Provide subject-matter expertise during audits, validations, and production incidents.

• Serve as a functional lead for small to mid-sized initiatives, enhancements, and transformation work streams.
• Facilitate workshops and design sessions with global, geographically distributed teams.
• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to functional standards, templates, and governance.
• Share responsibility for critical incident resolution and…