SAP IBP Manager

MHP - Mieschke Hofmann und Partner Gesellschaft für Management- und IT-Beratung mbH; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an SAP IBP Manager, where you'll lead high-impact projects in the automotive sector. This role is pivotal in shaping the SAP IBP capabilities in North America, requiring a blend of strategic direction and hands-on leadership. You'll be at the forefront of fostering relationships with clients, developing innovative consulting solutions, and driving business growth. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in SAP IBP and a strong customer focus, ensuring the delivery of exceptional service. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of consulting experience, especially in the automotive industry.
• 6+ years of SAP IBP experience with solid expertise in other modules.
• 3 SAP full lifecycle implementations.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects in process and IT consulting focused on the automotive industry.
• Develop and implement consulting solutions in Supply Chain Planning.
• Cultivate long-term client relationships and identify new business opportunities.

Skills

SAP IBP

Supply Chain Planning

Demand Planning

Sales & Operations Planning

Inventory Planning

Analytical Skills

Customer Focus

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business Administration

Equivalent Education

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP ECC

SAP Certifications

Job description

TheSAP Digital Enterpriseservice unit is the premier solutions partner for designing and delivering a digitized, high-performing future to our clients' ecosystems. We deliver this value to our customers by optimizing the performance of our client’s operational processes across the entire value chain, from R&D, production, logistics, purchasing, and sales. We achieve this by combining deep industry knowledge, process, and IT expertise in an end-to-end approach, guiding our clients through the digitalization paradigm shift by offering strategic direction, innovative design, implementation, and ongoing support for supply chain processes, applications, and technologies. Our professionals leverage our unique blend of process and IT expertise to improve our customers’ ability to proactively enable scalability, remove performance barriers, enable innovation, modernize core systems, and reinvent their business with digital solutions, primarily SAP.

We drive maximum business value for our clients across the entire value chain from R&D through to Manufacturing and Supply Chain, with a focused portfolio of solutions:

• SAP ECC and S/4HANA Transformation
• Connected Logistics
• Smart Manufacturing
• Data and Technology

Through our partnership with SAP, our SAP-certified practitioners provide expertise and implementation services leveraging the latest technologies, including S/4HANA On-Premise & Cloud, DM/ME/MII/PCo, EWM, TM, LBN, Ariba, Analytics, and more. Our professionals offer tailor-made strategies for Industry 4.0 transformations, integrating new technologies, process design and optimization, organizational change management, IOT platform strategy and analytics, smart factory design, Lean production strategies, and Agile transformations.

The Role

The SAP IBP Manager is expected to perform high-quality project work for our customers, continue to build the SAP IBP capability in North America, and foster its continued growth within our SAP Digital Enterprise service unit. This role requires an entrepreneurial mindset, will be responsible for the strategic direction for MHP Americas SAP IBP consulting services, and will be required to set actionable objectives, create a culture of accountability, and take a hands-on leadership approach to execution. Our customers and the value we offer is central to everything we do. With this in mind, this person will be required to ensure the quality of our services for our existing client base, cultivate relationships with new customers, develop new business opportunities, and continuously adjust our existing and future offerings according to market demands.

Responsibilities

• Be part of challenging projects in process and IT consulting with a focus on the automotive industry
• Develop innovative concepts and implement sophisticated consulting solutions in the fields of Supply Chain Planning, Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Inventory Planning and SAP IBP
• Deploy process, quality, and cost-optimized logistics concepts
• Create long term relationships with clients
• Identify and lead business development opportunities
• Achieve a strong reputation as a business advisor
• Take over responsibility as (sub) project team leader

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering or equivalent education.

Experience:

• 10+ years of work experience in consulting or in the automotive industry
• 6+ years of SAP IBPexperience (process & customizing)
• Solid expertise in at least one other module (i.e.,MM, PP, DS, QM, APO) is a strong plus
• 3 SAP full lifecycle implementations
• Profound SAP project and Go-Live experience (SAP implementation approach)
• SAP S/4HANA experience preferred
• SAP certifications are preferred
• Fluency in English (multi-lingual preferred)
• Professional appearance with strong customer focus
• Analytical and structured working attitude
• Strong teamwork capability

Percentage of required travel: up to 100%

Physical requirements:

• This job operates in an office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, cameras, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk, hear, walk, sit, stand, climb stairs on occasion with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to effectively work and complete tasks in an open office/noisy environment.
• Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time while traveling in a car or airplane.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with MHP Americas, Inc. (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), or any other non-immigrant status).