Principal SAP Plant Maintenance Consultant

LJRecruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Principal SAP Plant Maintenance Consultant in Greater London to lead end-to-end delivery. The candidate will conduct workshops, oversee SAP PM implementations, and mentor junior consultants. This senior hands-on role requires extensive SAP experience and strong stakeholder management skills. A hybrid work model is offered, providing flexibility in a dynamic environment. If you thrive at the intersection of leadership and technical detail, this is the role for you.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of SAP consulting experience.
• Strong SAP Plant Maintenance background (5+ years preferred).
• Proven end-to-end implementation delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead assessment and blueprint workshops.
• Drive delivery from blueprint to go-live and stabilisation.
• Mentor junior consultants and support an offshore team.

Skills

SAP Plant Maintenance

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Documentation skills

End-to-end implementation

Job description

Overview

Principal SAP Plant Maintenance Consultant (UK)

London / Hybrid

Do you live and breathe SAP Plant Maintenance?

The kind of person who can walk into a workshop that’s gone a bit… chaotic… and leave with clear requirements, a clean blueprint, and a confident route to go-live?

I’m recruiting for a Principal SAP Plant Maintenance Consultant to take ownership of end-to-end delivery, lead key stakeholders, and guide teams (including offshore) to successful implementations.

This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who can combine deep SAP PM knowledge with strong integration awareness and really solid client-facing confidence.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be leading assessment and blueprint workshops, shaping the solution, and driving delivery from blueprint through to go-live and stabilisation. You’ll also play a key role as the functional integration lead, working closely across modules like MM, QM, CO and PS.

There’s a strong delivery focus here (not just paperwork), but you will be expected to produce clear documentation when needed, including functional specs, mapping, gap analysis and process design.

You’ll also support testing and cutover end-to-end (SIT/UAT planning, scripts, execution, go-live readiness). And because this is Principal level, there’s a leadership piece too, mentoring junior consultants and supporting an offshore team (around 3–4 people).

There may also be some involvement in pre-sales activity (SME input, solution direction, championing what good looks like) depending on the project pipeline.

What I’m looking for

This will suit someone who is comfortable operating at senior level with stakeholders, but still enjoys getting stuck into the detail where it matters.

You’ll need

• 12+ years SAP consulting experience
• Strong SAP Plant Maintenance background (ideally 5+ years)
• Proven end-to-end implementation delivery (greenfield and/or brownfield)
• Strong experience across support environments too
• Confidence working in Agile style delivery
• Solid ability to translate business requirements into:
• standard SAP solutions
• and functional specs for build/enhancements
• Excellent English and stakeholder management skills
• The ability to juggle multiple workstreams without drama

Nice extras (not essential, but lovely if you have them):

• Oil & Gas and/or Automotive
• Winshuttle, Prometheus or RPA exposure
• SAP PS knowledge

You’ll do well here if you’re calm, commercially switched on, and naturally take ownership. It’s one of those roles where you’re trusted to run with it, and you’ll genuinely be treated like the SME.

If you’re even slightly curious, ping me your CV or LinkedIn and I’ll send over a few more details and talk you through the role properly (tea optional, but encouraged ☕).