SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Business Process Lead

Pioneer Management Consulting; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Travel to client sites

Job summary

Pioneer Management Consulting is seeking a SAP Business Process Lead for SAP PLM. You will drive transformation of the PLM workstream, guide workshops, and ensure process integrity across design, build, and deployment.

This contract role is remote with periodic travel to client sites. Expertise in SAP S/4HANA PLM, BOM, product data management, and BPMN is required, with a track record of shaping business processes around SAP.

Qualifications

• Deep SAP-focused business process design experience.
• Experience implementing SAP as a business-led initiative with process-driven design.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA PLM functionality: BOM, product structure, data management, and change management.
• Past experience creating business process flows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the business through the PLM workstream transformation.
• Guide the program through fit-to-standard workshops for PLM.
• Resolve cross-workstream process dependencies.
• Maintain process integrity across design, build, and deployment.

Skills

Business process design

BPMN standards

Process flows

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP

Job description

Grow with us. Lead with us. At Pioneer, you'll work directly with executive teams, solving complex problems and shaping strategies that reset what's possible. Sometimes the work is headline-worthy. Sometimes it's foundational. But every project earns trust - and earns us the right to take on more. You'll get the kind of access, challenge, and growth found at big firms - while helping build a company that's scaling fast and guided by what we value. If you're looking for meaning, momentum, and a seat at the table, you're in the right place.

SAP Business Process Lead, Product Lifecycle Management

Responsibilities

• Lead the business through the PLM workstream transformation
• Take the primary role in guiding the entire program through fit-to-standard workshops (for PLM domain)
• Resolve cross-workstream process dependencies
• Hold the line on process integrity across design, build, and deployment

Requirements

• Deep business process design experience, primarily within SAP, but grounded in a strong understanding of the underlying business operations independent of the tool
• Has implemented SAP as a business-led initiative where process design drives system design
• Understand SAP S/4HANA functionality within Product Lifecycle Management, spanning:
• Bill of material and product structure management
• Product formulation and recipe development
• Specification and product data management
• Engineering/product change management
• New product introduction and commercialization
• Packaging and artwork management
• Regulatory compliance and sustainability
• Able to work backward from that functionality to define the business processes, master data, and inputs required to drive it
• Past experience creating business process flows

Preferred

• Working understanding of SAP's 'Active Methodology' having leveraged the SAP Best Practice flows
• Experience creating business process flows following BPMN standards

Additional Details

• Job Type: Contract
• Pay: $115-130 per hour. This is a 1099 independent contractor engagement and is not eligible for Pioneer benefits.
• Work Location: Remote, some travel may be required to client site (monthly/quarterly).