SAP PPDS Manager (Remote - USA)

The Team:

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/4HANA 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/4HANA 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 Role:

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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Assume partial project management responsibility
• 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

Education::

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

Experience:

• At least 6+ years of relevant automotive manufacturing industry and/or consulting experience
• Successful demonstration of business development with new and existing clients
• Minimum 6+ years of SAP PP/PP-DS/QM Experience
• Minimum 3 full SAP lifecycle implementations
• Knowledge of production planning, production master data, MRP, shop floor order creation/tracking, shop floor quality, logistics, and plant maintenance processes
• Ability to define SAP PP/PP-DS/QM  implementation strategy, gather functional and non-functional requirements, design and prototype, test, train, define support procedures, and implement practical business solutions
• Profound SAP project and Go-Live experience (SAP implementation approach)
• Experience preparing and presenting proposals, RFP responses
• Experience preparing and presenting webinars, manufacturing events
• Must possess the necessary leadership, team building, motivation, and delegation skills to efficiently coordinate the efforts of a team toward accomplishing a common goal
• Ability to recognize and evaluate client business/technical needs and establish change initiatives to meet these needs
• Professional appearance with a strong customer focus
• Analytical and structured
• SAP Certifications are a big plus
• Experience with additional SAP modules preferred
• Fluency in English (multi-lingual preferred)

Percentage of required travel: up to 100%

Physical requirements:

• This job operates in an office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, cameras, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk, hear, walk, sit, stand, climb stairs on occasion with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to effectively work and complete tasks in an open office/noisy environment.
• Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time while traveling in a car or airplane.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with MHP Americas, Inc. (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), or any other non-immigrant status).

MHP Americas, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and we take pride in our diversity. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Porsche will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Porsche does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, age, disability, family medical history, ancestry, medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, registered domestic partner status, family and medical leave status, military status, criminal conviction history, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. 

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As a digitalization pioneer in the mobility and manufacturing industries, MHP transfers its expertise to a wide range of industries and is a premium partner for thought leaders on their way to a Better Tomorrow. MHP serves over 300 customers worldwide. Among them are leading corporations, innovative medium-sized companies, and disruptive start-ups. MHP provides both operational and strategic consulting and delivers proven IT and technology expertise as well as specific industry know-how.

As OneTeam, MHP operates internationally, with headquarters in Germany and subsidiaries in the US, UK, Romania, and China. For over 26 years, MHP has been shaping the future together with its customers. More than 4,000 MHP employees are united by the aspiration for excellence and sustainable success. This aspiration continues to drive MHP - today and in the future.

The salary range for this role is $125,000-$155,000. However, it is important to note that at MHP, the compensation range is dependent on geographic location. Individual salaries within each range are determined through a wide variety of factors, including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skillset. MHP reviews compensation regularly and may adjust base salaries to reflect market competitiveness.

In addition to salary, individuals may be eligible for a discretionary performance bonus. Our full suite of benefits includes:

• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Sick leave
• 401(k) match
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Tuition and certification reimbursement
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Coverage
• Subsidized gym membership program
• Subsidized Porsche and VW leasing programs

With MHP you have a hand in shaping tomorrow, today. Apply now on our JobLocator. Please include all documents like cover letter, resume, references and project lists (if applicable). 

By the way, our recruiting team will review your application both in the context of the specified job, and also cross- departmentally. This way we can evaluate whether there is a suitable position for you anywhere at MHP. 

You can reach our recruiting team at Recruiting-Americas@mhp.com