SAP Product Manager

Ford Motor Company; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Motor Company in India is seeking an experienced SAP MM Product Manager LL6 to drive the production planning and materials management transformation. You will map as-is processes, define a future state, and collaborate with global teams to deploy SAP S/4HANA MM across sites while integrating with legacy systems.

The role requires deep SAP MM knowledge, 13+ years of experience, strong leadership, and ability to manage requirements, testing, release cuts, and continuous improvement within an

Qualifications

• Minimum 13+ years of relevant experience in SAP MM.
• Strong knowledge of SAP MM, S/4HANA integration with PP/PPDS.
• Experience in product development and transformation programs in manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Understand current business processes across regions/plants.
• Lead and mentor junior team members to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Deploy SAP S/4 MM across sites globally and integrate with legacy and best-in-breed apps.
• Define test strategy, plans, and schedules; coordinate SIT/UAT and regression testing.
• Collaborate with product owners, consultants, developers, and project managers to drive roadmap milestones.
• Prioritize and size RICEFW objects; align product roadmaps across teams.

Skills

SAP MM

Product Manager

Program management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Testing leadership

Tools

IDOC

BADI

Fiori

S/4HANA

SAP MM config

Job description

Job Description:

SAP MM Product Manager – LL6 (Primary Skill – Product Development; Secondary – Program management)

• Understand the current business process across all regions / plants.


• Independently guide and mentor junior team members, fostering their development and ensuring high-quality deliverables.


• Understand the functionality of current Legacy Material requirements Planning (MRP) and associated upstream and downstream systems


• Work with various stakeholders to study the transformation of current process / legacy systems to Industry best standards / technology/ systems focusing on the SAP MM module


• Perform Requirements Gathering, Business Analysis, and Fit-Gap / Fit-to-Standard Analysis to understand the as-is/to-be states and identify key functionality / process gaps


• Recommend possible technology / process solution to address gaps


• Develop roadmap / transformation map without impacting the operations


• Deploy SAP S/4 MM across various sites globally and integrate with both legacy & other best-in-breed applications


• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement


• Defining the overall test strategy, scope, and approach for the project.


• Preparing and managing test plans, test scenarios, and test schedules.


• Coordinating SIT, UAT, regression, and other testing phases with functional and technical teams.


• Leading and mentoring the testing team, assigning tasks, and tracking progress.


• Ensuring defects are logged with proper analysis, prioritization, and follow-up until closure.


• Collaborating closely with business users, developers, functional consultants, and project managers.


• Monitoring test coverage, quality metrics, risks, and issue resolution timelines.


• Driving daily status reviews and providing clear reporting on testing progress, blockers, and quality status.


• Ensuring test evidence, documentation, and sign-offs are completed as per governance standards.


• Work closely with product owners and product anchors to establish an inclusive product roadmap for Production planning and Inventory management business transformation


• Lead the blueprinting sessions to understand the Production Planning business requirements, work closely with functional and technical consultants and product owners to derive an overall solution.


• Handle the release and cutover of SAP MMP program.


• Analyze the need for customization and prioritize the RICEFW objects and size them


• Ensure the product roadmap and prioritization is aligned across other product teams


• Create functional specification, Key design document, prototypes or Proof-of-Concepts wherever required


• Collaborate with integration team to Integrate SAP MMP system with other supply chain downstream and up-stream system


• Have good functional knowledge on IDOC’s, BADI, Fiori applications etc.


• Troubleshooting and resolving functional issues related to the SAP MM system.


• Collaborating with the technical team to understand and implement business requirements.


• Ensuring the system is performing optimally and securely.


• Minimum of 13+ years of relevant experience


• Industry process knowledge, solution expertise, consultation skills in SAP MM


• Excellent understanding of the overall SAP MM solution and how it is implemented in conjunction with other components of the S/4 HANA modules like SAP Production Planning and SAP PPDS


• Good knowledge on automotive assembly and manufacturing domain with good communication skills


• Experience in SAP MM module configuration


• Experience working in SAP S4 Hana environment


• Handled / worked with global teams


• Automotive experience is preferred


• Support in an onshore/offshore model is preferred


• Respect and empathy for team members, business partner and product customer


• Excellent at problem solving and prevention.


• Knowledge and practical experience of agile delivery


• Demonstrated ability to deliver product roadmap milestones


• Respect and empathy for team members, business partner and product customer


• Should possess complete knowledge of every phase of SAP implementation including creation of business blueprint, implementation, data migration, cutover and go-live


• Ability to discover what is valuable, usable, and feasible acting in the intersection of business, technology and user experience.


• Have a strong pulse on the business / IT landscape to determine how to rigorously prioritize features to best suit the market conditions.


• Experience in Agile methodology effectively when performing all tasks.