SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Business Process Lead

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 158,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Pioneer seeks a SAP Business Process Lead to own the Product Lifecycle Management workstream on a large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation. This business-first role focuses on design and process outcomes rather than pure technical scope.

The candidate will drive PLM process design, BOM/product structure management, NPI, packaging, and regulatory compliance, collaborating across design, build, and deployment teams. Remote with occasional client-site travel.

Qualifications

• Deep SAP/PLM process design experience with strong business operations understanding.
• Experience implementing SAP as a business-led initiative.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA PLM functions: BOM, product structure, formulation, data management, engineering changes, NPI, packaging, regulatory.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

SAP experience

Business process design

PLM knowledge

S/4HANA familiarity

BPMN workflows

Requirements elicitation

Tools

Active Methodology

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

We are seeking a SAP Business Process Lead to own the Product Lifecycle Management workstream on a large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation. This is a business-first role: the lead is accountable for business process design on a project where the transformation is focused around business outcomes rather than technical scope.

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).