SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Business Process Lead

Pioneer Management Consulting is seeking a SAP Business Process Lead to own the Product Lifecycle Management workstream on a large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation. The role leads business process design, fit-to-standard workshops, cross-workstream dependency resolution, and process integrity across design, build, and deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the business through the PLM workstream transformation
• Take the primary role in guiding the entire program through fit-to-standard workshops (for PLM domain)
• Resolve cross-workstream process dependencies
• Hold the line on process integrity across design, build, and deployment

Requirements:

• Deep business process design experience, primarily within SAP, but grounded in a strong understanding of the underlying business operations independent of the tool
• Has implemented SAP as a business-led initiative where process design drives system design
• Understand SAP S/4HANA functionality within Product Lifecycle Management, spanning: Bill of material and product structure management; Product formulation and recipe development; Specification and product data management; Engineering/product change management; New product introduction and commercialization; Packaging and artwork management; Regulatory compliance and sustainability
• Able to work backward from that functionality to define the business processes, master data, and inputs required to drive it
• Past experience creating business process flows
• Working understanding of SAP's ‘Active Methodology' having leveraged the SAP Best Practice flows
• Experience creating business process flows following BPMN standards