# Engineering Manager, SAP S/4HANA **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn, MI **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $132,800-$250,800 **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72710?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_42a5b962-6d9 ## Description We are seeking an Engineering Manager, SAP S/4HANA to lead the functional specification team and work closely with business stakeholders to translate business needs into clear requirements, functional designs, and a delivery roadmap. The ideal candidate brings strong experience with SAP S/4HANA Sales and Distribution (SD) and end-to-end Order-to-Cash (O2C) processes, along with automotive industry knowledge. ### Responsibilities #### Team Leadership - Lead, manage, and mentor a team of engineers, analysts, and SAP professionals, including the functional specification team. - Organize the team around effective areas of ownership, as needed. - Set clear performance expectations, hold regular one-on-ones, and support career growth and development. - Build a team culture centered on accountability, collaboration, quality, and continuous improvement. - Manage hiring, onboarding, capacity planning, and resource allocation. #### Delivery and Production Ownership - Own end-to-end delivery, including planning, prioritization, resourcing, dependency management, and removal of blockers. - Lead production support for SAP products and integrations, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and resolution of production issues. - Establish and monitor operational measures for service reliability, process performance, and support responsiveness. - Track delivery risks, timelines, dependencies, and technical debt; communicate and escalate issues proactively. - Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies and improve delivery and support practices. #### Product, Functional, and SAP Solution Ownership - Own the roadmap and solution direction for SAP S/4HANA capabilities supporting Sales and Distribution and Order to Cash. - Lead the functional specification team, ensuring specifications are clear, complete, traceable to business requirements, and ready to guide solution design, development, testing, and deployment. - Work closely with business stakeholders to understand processes, define requirements, prioritize enhancements, and align on outcomes. - Facilitate working sessions with business and technical teams to resolve process questions, assess impacts, and agree on scope and acceptance criteria. - Translate business needs into functional specifications, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria that align with SAP S/4HANA capabilities, SD, and end-to-end O2C processes. - Partner with business teams to understand and improve processes spanning relevant O2C activities, such as sales order management, pricing, delivery, billing, and invoicing. - Guide solution design and technical decisions involving SAP S/4HANA, SD configuration, extensions, interfaces, and integrations with connected enterprise systems. - Promote scalable, secure, reliable, and supportable solutions through design reviews, testing, and sound release practices. - Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve data quality, automate work, and strengthen platform performance. #### Stakeholder Management - Serve as a primary connection between the engineering and functional teams and business stakeholders, including sales, order management, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and IT. - Align stakeholders on requirements, priorities, scope, delivery timing, and trade-offs. - Provide regular updates to leaders and partners on roadmap progress, delivery status, production health, and risks. - Coordinate with architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, integration, and other cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive solutions. ### Qualifications #### Required Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience. - 7+ years of experience in SAP delivery, engineering leadership, product delivery, or a related discipline. - 2+ years demonstrated experience leading teams, including people management, coaching, performance development, and resource planning. - Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA, Sales and Distribution (SD), and Order-to-Cash processes. - Experience delivering and supporting enterprise SAP solutions across their lifecycle, including production support and incident management. - Understanding of SAP solution design, configuration, extensions, and integration patterns. - Experience working directly with business stakeholders to define priorities, clarify requirements, and manage expectations. - Strong communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills. - Experience working in Agile/Scrum or similar delivery environments. #### Preferred Qualifications - Automotive industry experience, including familiarity with automotive sales, order management, fulfillment, or related business processes. - Experience with SAP S/4HANA transformation, implementation, migration, or large-scale modernization programs. - Experience integrating SAP with dealer, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, or other enterprise systems. - Familiarity with SAP integration technologies and approaches, such as APIs, middleware, and event-based integration. - Experience leading functional analysts or functional-specification teams and translating business needs into functional designs and delivery requirements. - Experience with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-based enterprise solutions. - Familiarity with architecture, including service design, APIs, integration patterns, and distributed systems. - Experience managing distributed or hybrid teams and coordinating delivery across multiple business and technology groups. - Familiarity with production support frameworks, ITIL, or SRE practices. - Understanding of enterprise data governance, security, compliance, and change management. ### Benefits - Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage - Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more - Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, 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. ## Skills ### Required - SAP S/4HANA - Sales and Distribution (SD) - Order-to-Cash (O2C) - Agile/Scrum ### Nice to have - Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - SAP integration technologies - APIs - middleware - event-based integration - ITIL - SRE practices --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/72710?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)