SAP S/4HANA Process Lead

Parker; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 107,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

401(k) plan with company matching

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off & holidays

Career development

Job summary

Parker is seeking an experienced SAP Business Process Manager to lead group-wide deployment strategies for SAP S/4HANA across procurement, demand planning, scheduling, and inventory management. You will report to the Group VP of Supply Chain and drive standardization, readiness, and sustainable adoption with stakeholders across the organization.

You will collaborate with Corporate SAP leaders, Group IT, and division leadership to ensure successful go-live, data readiness, and post-go-live

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in business, supply chain, operations, engineering, information systems, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in supply chain, procurement, materials management, production planning, scheduling, inventory management, manufacturing operations, or ERP-enabled business process leadership.
• 2+ years leading cross-functional project teams, implementation teams, or business process improvement initiatives.
• Direct SAP or large-scale ERP implementation experience strongly preferred; SAP S/4HANA implementation experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading business process transformation across multiple sites, divisions, or business units.
• Experience serving as a business process owner, functional lead, workstream lead, or deployment lead for ERP/SAP implementations.
• Demonstrated experience leading ERP/SAP-enabled supply chain and manufacturing workstreams.
• Willingness to travel 25%-50%.

Responsibilities

• Lead group-wide SAP deployment strategy, readiness, execution, and sustainment for assigned workstreams in partnership with Corporate SAP S/4HANA Business Process Leaders, Group SAP IT Lead, and division leadership.
• Establish and lead functional governance for assigned SAP processes, including fit-to-standard decisions, exception management, escalation, prioritization, and process adoption.
• Lead current-state assessments across divisions and evaluate divisional processes against Parker standard SAP business processes; identify gaps, risks, organizational impacts, and required business changes.
• Drive adoption of Parker standard SAP processes and make recommendations on process standardization, business requirements, and exceptions requiring group or corporate approval.
• Lead cross-functional workshops with operations, procurement, supply chain, finance, materials, scheduling, manufacturing, and division leadership to align future-state processes and deployment readiness.
• Own functional readiness for assigned workstreams, including data readiness, process validation, testing, training, cutover preparation, go-live support, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Lead functional issue resolution during deployment, cutover, and hypercare; escalates risks and decisions to group leadership and Corporate SAP S/4HANA Business Process Leaders as appropriate.
• Partner with Corporate Business Process teams to evaluate additional business requirements, develop business cases, support solution design, validate configuration, approve testing outcomes, and support divisional adoption.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and training to divisional implementation teams, process owners, super users, and end users to ensure sustainable adoption of SAP standard processes.
• Influence division and group stakeholders to adopt standard processes, resolve conflicts, accelerate implementation timelines, and improve deployment efficiency.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities after go-live and recommends enhancements to group leadership and Corporate SAP S/4HANA Business Process Leaders.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate functional deployment risks that could impact business continuity, supply chain execution, inventory accuracy, production scheduling, customer service, or financial reporting.
• Maintain strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA functionality, integrated business processes, and related systems impacting procurement, demand planning, scheduling, and inventory management.
• Prepare and present functional readiness status, key risks, decision requirements, and deployment recommendations to group leadership, division leadership, and Corporate SAP stakeholders.
• Travel to group divisions and implementation sites to lead deployment activities, support site readiness, conduct workshops, resolve issues, and ensure successful go-live and hypercare outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Change management

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, operations, engineering, information systems, or related field

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

ERP systems

Job description

Parker is seeking an experienced SAP Business Process Manager to lead group-wide deployment strategies for SAP S/4HANA across procurement, demand planning, scheduling, and inventory management. You will report to the Group VP of Supply Chain and drive standardization, readiness, and sustainable adoption with stakeholders across the organization.

You will collaborate with Corporate SAP leaders, Group IT, and division leadership to ensure successful go-live, data readiness, and post-go-live