Senior SAP IBP Consultant – Demand & S&OP Leader

Goodman Fielder New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Goodman Fielder New Zealand is seeking an experienced SAP IBP Senior Consultant to join our ANZ IT team and play a key role in transforming our planning capability across NZ and AU. This specialist role focuses on functional consulting, solution leadership and continuous improvement of SAP Integrated Business Planning.

You’ll collaborate with business stakeholders to design and optimise planning solutions across Demand, Supply, S&OP, and Inventory Optimisation in a complex FMCG environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years SAP experience with 5+ years SAP IBP hands-on.
• Experience across IBP Demand & Supply, S&OP and Inventory Optimisation.
• Strong knowledge of Planning Areas, Key Figures, Master Data and Planner Workspaces.
• Experience with CPI-DS and ECC/S/4 integration.
• At least 2 end-to-end SAP IBP implementations.
• Strong functional design, problem-solving and solution delivery capability.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical business solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to influence across technical and business teams.
• SAP certification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead SAP IBP Demand and Supply initiatives from requirements to delivery and ongoing optimisation.
• Design and configure IBP solutions across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Response & S&OP, Inventory Optimisation and S&OP.
• Design Planning Areas, Key Figures, Master Data and Planner Workspaces to support business requirements.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand challenges, identify opportunities and translate requirements into effective technology solutions.
• Develop functional specifications, solution documentation, process flows and interface mapping.
• Support end-to-end project delivery including SIT, UAT, defect management and rollout.
• Support and optimise integration between SAP IBP, CPI-DS, ECC and S/4.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning maturity, processes and ways of working across ANZ.
• Ensure solutions align with GFIT governance, architecture, change management and internal control standards.

Skills

SAP IBP

Stakeholder mgmt

Solution delivery

Business partnering

Problem-solving

Tools

CPI-DS

ECC/S/4

Job description

Goodman Fielder New Zealand is seeking an experienced SAP IBP Senior Consultant to join our ANZ IT team and play a key role in transforming our planning capability across NZ and AU. This specialist role focuses on functional consulting, solution leadership and continuous improvement of SAP Integrated Business Planning.

You’ll collaborate with business stakeholders to design and optimise planning solutions across Demand, Supply, S&OP, and Inventory Optimisation in a complex FMCG environment.