Role & responsibilities

1. S/4HANA PP Module Implementation

• Production Planning & Execution: Design, configure, and implement end-to-end production processes Master Data (BOM, Routing, Work Centre, Production Version), MRP, Demand Management, Planned Orders, Production Orders, and Confirmations.
• Manufacturing Scenarios: Configure and support multiple manufacturing models including Discrete Manufacturing, Repetitive Manufacturing, Make-to-Order (MTO), Make-to-Stock (MTS) based on each business unit's production profile.
• MRP & Capacity Planning: Implement MRP runs (MRP Live in S/4HANA), capacity evaluation, capacity levelling, and long-term planning for production scheduling across multiple plants.
• Shop Floor Integration: Configure production order processing, goods movements (GI/GR), backflushing, co-product and by-product handling, and work-in-progress (WIP) calculation, Integration with MES and other external systems
• S/4HANA Innovations: Leverage S/4HANA-specific capabilities Predictive MRP, Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) on embedded PP, and simplified BOM/Routing structures.

2. S/4HANA QM Module Implementation

• Quality Planning: Design and configure Inspection Plans, Inspection Lots (triggered by goods receipt, production, delivery), Master Inspection Characteristics (MIC), Sampling Procedures, and Inspection Catalogues.
• Quality Execution: Implement results recording, usage decisions, automatic stock postings based on quality outcomes, and digital signature integration where required.
• Quality Notifications: Configure QM Notifications for customer complaints, internal defects, and vendor quality issues including root cause analysis workflows, corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), and escalation procedures.
• Vendor Quality Management: Set up quality info records, vendor evaluation with QM scoring, source inspection, and skip lot procedures for incoming material inspection.
• Certificates & Compliance: Configure quality certificates (CoA/CoC) for outbound deliveries, batch determination with QM integration, and compliance documentation aligned to ISO 9001 and industry-specific standards.

3. User Adoption & Change Enablement

• Business Process Adoption: Champion the shift from legacy manufacturing and quality practices to S/4HANA-enabled production operations, driving high user adoption across all production facilities.
• Training & Readiness: Design end-to-end user enablement strategies, super-user training programmes, and post-go-live hypercare support across manufacturing plants.
• Change Impact Analysis: Assess the business impact of moving from legacy production workflows to standard SAP PP/QM processes and formulate effective change mitigation plans.

4. Strategic Leadership & Delivery Governance

• Functional Leadership: Lead the SAP PP/QM track across the group transformation programme, providing strategic direction, functional decision-making, and alignment with corporate manufacturing and quality standards.
• Team & Vendor Governance: Manage and direct hybrid onshore and offshore consultant teams, system integrator teams, and internal key users to ensure deliverable quality and project timelines.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Act as the primary PP/QM functional liaison between Plant Managers, Production Heads, Quality Managers, C-suite executives, and IT leadership across the group's manufacturing entities.

5. Integration & Quality Oversight

• Cross-Module Integration: Ensure seamless integration between PP/QM and MM (procurement, inventory, batch management), SD (availability check, delivery), FI/CO (production cost analysis, WIP, variance), PM (maintenance-triggered production stops), and PS (project-linked production for ETO scenarios).
• Master Data Governance: Oversee production and quality master data standards material masters (MRP views, QM views), BOMs, routings, work centres, inspection plans, and catalogues across all manufacturing plants.
• Testing & RICEFW Governance: Oversee SIT, UAT, and sign-off protocols while authoring and reviewing key functional specifications (RICEFW) for production and quality-related custom developments.

This is an opportunity to lead a high-impact Manufacturing & Quality workstream within a large, multi-business group transformation. The successful candidate will standardise production and quality processes, strengthen shop floor governance, and help shape the future-state operating model for SAP-enabled manufacturing across the group.

Preferred / Good to Have Skills

If you have deep SAP PP/QM expertise with experience leading manufacturing transformation in complex, multi-plant industrial environments, we would be glad to hear from you. Interested candidates may apply or share suitable profiles through the relevant recruitment channel.

• Legacy Migration: Prior experience migrating from legacy ERP platforms (Oracle EBS, standalone MES/QMS tools) to SAP S/4HANA Production Planning and Quality Management.
• SAP Certifications: SAP Certified Application Associate S/4HANA Production Planning & Manufacturing or Quality Management.
• SAP DMC / MES: Exposure to SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud (DMC) or Manufacturing Execution Systems for shop floor integration and real-time production monitoring.
• Advanced Planning: Experience with PP/DS (Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling) or SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning) for demand-supply alignment.
• Batch & Serialisation: Hands-on experience with batch management, serialisation, and traceability requirements in regulated or industrial manufacturing.
• Conglomerate Experience: Prior exposure to conglomerate or diversified industrial group environments in the GCC region with multi-plant, multi-company code manufacturing operations.