SAP Plant Setup & Deployment Project Lead

We are seeking an SAP Plant Setup & Deployment Project Lead to lead the enterprise-structure configuration and deployment activities needed to establish new or expanded plants in SAP S/4HANA.

This role combines hands-on SAP configuration with project leadership. You’ll coordinate cross-functional teams, manage plans and dependencies using Jira and Agile practices, and support project governance, change control, cutover, and go-live activities.

Responsibilities

SAP Plant Setup & Configuration

• Configure SAP S/4HANA enterprise-structure elements, including Plants, Purchasing Organizations, and Storage Locations.
• Maintain assignments between plants and relevant organizational units, including Company Codes and Sales Organizations.
• Perform plant-related Purchasing configuration, including Purchasing Organization assignments and plant-specific procurement settings.
• Coordinate vendor master extension activities related to plant setup.
• Gather plant-specific requirements from product teams before configuration begins.
• Complete configuration accurately and on schedule so product teams can proceed with validation and testing.
• Hand off completed configuration to product teams with clear documentation and support their testing and sign-off.
• Troubleshoot configuration issues identified during validation and testing.

Finance Workstream Coordination

• Coordinate plant-related Finance configuration across relevant product areas, including:
• Accounts Payable: Support plant-level requirements for vendor invoice and payment processing.
• General Ledger: Coordinate valuation-area and account-determination setup.
• Intercompany: Enable cross-plant and cross-company-code transaction processing.
• Vehicle Accounting: Support plant-level vehicle inventory valuation and related accounting structures.
• Reporting: Ensure plant setup supports downstream financial and management reporting.
• Coordinate activities and dependencies across Finance and Purchasing product teams.
• Track decisions, risks, issues, and handoffs to support complete and consistent plant deployment.

Project & Program Management

• Develop and manage plant setup plans, milestones, dependencies, and timelines across parallel workstreams.
• Use Jira to maintain project backlogs, track issues and dependencies, support sprint planning, and communicate delivery progress.
• Apply Agile practices to coordinate cross-functional teams, manage sprint commitments, and address delivery impediments.
• Lead collaboration among SAP product teams, business stakeholders, technical teams, and deployment partners.
• Coordinate change-management activities, including impact assessment, approvals, stakeholder communication, and implementation tracking.
• Support cutover and go-live planning, including transport coordination and sequencing configuration across dependent products.

Governance, Documentation & Continuous Improvement

• Support project governance through status reporting, steering committee updates, RAID logs, and change-control processes.
• Maintain configuration documentation, plant setup checklists, project trackers, and delivery records across involved product areas.
• Ensure configuration decisions, dependencies, risks, and handoffs are documented and communicated.
• Identify opportunities to improve plant setup, deployment, and governance processes.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

Experience

• 5 – 8+ years of SAP configuration experience, including hands-on experience setting up Plants and related enterprise-structure elements in SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience supporting a plant rollout or expansion involving multiple Finance and Purchasing product teams.
• Working knowledge of Purchasing (MM) and Finance (FI/CO) configuration related to plant setup.
• Experience coordinating delivery across multiple functional teams, such as Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Intercompany, Vehicle Accounting, and Reporting.
• SAP project-management experience, including timeline and dependency management, status reporting, and cross-functional coordination.
• Experience using Jira for Agile project tracking, sprint planning, and issue management.
• Experience supporting project governance, including status reports, steering committee updates, RAID logs, and change-management processes.
• Strong communication, organization, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Required Technical Experience

• Demonstrated experience configuring Plants, Company Codes, Purchasing Organizations, and Storage Locations and maintaining their assignments.
• Working knowledge of plant-related Purchasing (MM) and Finance (FI/CO) configuration, including valuation areas, account determination, and Purchasing Organization assignments.
• Familiarity with configuration activities such as OX10, OX18, OX17, and OX09.
• Familiarity with SAP transport management and cutover coordination.
• Ability to coordinate configuration, validation, testing, and handoff across dependent product teams.

Preferred Experience

• SAP S/4HANA certification in MM or FI.
• Exposure to Vehicle Accounting or automotive OEM and dealer financial structures.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time