# SAP Plant Setup & Deployment Project Lead **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Dearborn, MI **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $86,600-$166,200 **Category**: Operations **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/73189?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/sap-plant-setup-and-deployment-project-lead-ffbaaa00-347/ ## Description 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 For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - SAP S/4HANA - Purchasing (MM) - Finance (FI/CO) - Jira - Agile - Project Management ### Nice to have - SAP S/4HANA certification in MM or FI - Vehicle Accounting --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/73189?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)