SAP PPDS Manager; Remote

The
SAP Digital Enterprise
service unit is the premier solutions partner for designing and delivering a digitized, high-performing future to our clients' ecosystems. We deliver this value to our customers by optimizing the performance of our client’s operational processes across the entire value chain, from R&D, production, logistics, purchasing, and sales. We achieve this by combining deep industry knowledge, process, and IT expertise in an end-to-end approach, guiding our clients through the digitalization paradigm shift by offering strategic direction, innovative design, implementation, and ongoing support for supply chain processes, applications, and technologies.

Our professionals leverage our unique blend of process and IT expertise to improve our customers’ ability to proactively enable scalability, remove performance barriers, enable innovation, modernize core systems, and reinvent their business with digital solutions, primarily SAP.

We drive maximum business value for our clients across the entire value chain from R&D through to Manufacturing and Supply Chain, with a focused portfolio of solutions

• SAP ECC and S/4
  
  HANA Transformation
• Connected Logistics
• Smart Manufacturing
• Data and Technology

Through our partnership with SAP, our SAP-certified practitioners provide expertise and implementation services leveraging the latest technologies, including S/4

HANA On-Premise & Cloud, DM/ME/MII/PCo, EWM, TM, LBN, Ariba, Analytics, and more. Our professionals offer tailor-made strategies for Industry 4.0 transformations, integrating new technologies, process design and optimization, organizational change management, IOT platform strategy and analytics, smart factory design, Lean production strategies, and Agile transformations.

The SAP PPDS Manager is expected to perform high-quality project work for our customers, build the teams capability in North America, and foster its continued growth within our Service Unit. This role requires a focused and analytical mindset and will require you to work toward set objectives with a level of autonomy, live a culture of accountability, and take a hands-on approach to execution.

Our customers and the value we offer is central to everything we do. This person will be required to ensure the quality of our services for our existing client base, cultivate relationships with new customers, and support new business opportunities.

• Get involved with challenging projects in management, process, and IT consulting with a focus on discrete manufacturing
• Conduct workshops and consult, design, and lead innovative SAP SAP PP, PP-DS & QM implementations
• Act in a functional consulting role for analysis, design, conception, prototyping, realization, testing, rollout, and support
• Design concepts to process data and overall architecture to enable optimized SAP PP/PP-DS/QM implementations
• Define and design integration to other
  
  SAP modules and products, including but not limited to SAP ME, SAP DM (DMC), IBP, EWM, EAM, etc
• Prepare functional specifications for development work
• Conduct functional testing to ensure accurate configuration and development
• Prepare process flows /training documents and execute training of our client’s business owners and users
• Manage large projects at key accounts
• Become a trusted advisor to our customers to actively shape the future of automotive and manufacturing
• Maintain profitability and financial health for the Business Field
• Recruit and retain top talent
• Ensure the development of the most relevant and innovative skills and capabilities within the team
• Create long-term relationships with clients
• Identify and lead business development and presales activities, including proofs-of-concept, demos, presentations, webinars, blog posts, RFP responses, estimations, proposals, leads & opportunities follow-up
• Take over responsibility as (sub) project team leader
• Achieve a strong reputation as a business advisor

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering or equivalent education.

• At least 6yearsof relevantautomotivemanufacturing industry and/or consulting experience
• Successful demonstration of business…