SAP Plant Setup & Deployment Project Lead

Ford, Inc; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 87,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Vehicle discount

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford is seeking an SAP Plant Setup & Deployment Project Lead to drive enterprise-structure configuration for new or expanded plants in SAP S/4HANA.

You will connect Purchasing and Finance workstreams, coordinate requirements, configuration, validation, and deployment across Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Intercompany, Vehicle Accounting, and Reporting, while leading cross-functional teams and managing dependencies.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years SAP configuration experience, including hands-on setup of Plants in SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience coordinating plant rollout involving multiple Finance and Purchasing teams.
• Working knowledge of MM and FI/CO configuration related to plant setup.
• Experience using Jira for Agile project tracking and coordination.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-structure configuration and deployment for new or expanded plants in SAP S/4HANA.
• Coordinate Purchasing (MM) and Finance (FI/CO) workstreams end-to-end.
• Develop and manage plant setup plans, milestones, and timelines across parallel workstreams.
• Support cutover, go-live planning, and documentation handoffs to product teams.
• Maintain governance, RAID logs, and change-control processes.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

SAP S/4HANA

SAP MM/FI/CO

SAP transport management

Job description

Do you believe reliable enterprise systems and disciplined delivery are essential to launching and expanding business operations? Establishing a plant in SAP requires coordinated configuration across Purchasing and Finance, careful management of dependencies, and close collaboration among product teams. That’s where this role makes an impact.

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. You’ll connect Purchasing (MM) and Finance (FI/CO) workstreams, coordinating requirements, configuration, validation, and deployment across areas such as Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Intercompany, Vehicle Accounting, and Reporting.

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.

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.

We recognize that no one person will embody every quality or skill listed below.

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.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company.

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

• 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.

*Visa Sponsorship is not provided for this role**

This position is a salary grade 7 or 8.

This position is a salary grade 7 or 8 and ranges from $86,600-$166,200.

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