SAP Variant Configuration Lead on S/4HANA

EY; Charleston (WV); Remote; USD 143,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking an innovative SAP professional to join our Technology Consulting team, specializing in SAP Variant Configuration within the Core Supply Chain capability. You will design and implement scalable configuration solutions connecting sales, engineering, manufacturing and supply chain processes in SAP S/4HANA.

You will lead workshops, model configurations, govern variant configuration, and coordinate integrations with SAP modules, ensuring alignment with client needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (4-year degree).
• Typically, no less than 4 - 6 years of relevant experience in SAP-enabled manufacturing, product configuration, engineering, or order-to-production environments.
• A minimum of 3 years of hands‑on SAP Variant Configuration experience, including designing and configuring materials, characteristics, classes, configuration profiles, and object dependencies.
• Experience designing and configuring product models using configurable materials, classes, characteristics, class types, configuration profiles, object dependencies, constraints, procedures, preconditions, and selection conditions.
• Experience integrating Variant Configuration with SAP Sales and Distribution, Production Planning, Materials Management, pricing, bills of material, routings, and master data.
• A proven track record of leading teams to deliver project outcomes within critical deadlines.
• Experience managing an SAP project or workstream and project‑based team members in manufacturing or engineer‑to‑order environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service, and technical writing skills.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 40-60%.

Responsibilities

• Lead SAP Variant Configuration workstreams from planning and design through testing, deployment, and stabilization.
• Facilitate client workshops to assess current-state processes, define future-state requirements, and recommend SAP S/4HANA best practices for configurable products.
• Design and oversee end-to-end variant configuration solutions, including configurable materials, classes, characteristics, configuration profiles, and object dependencies.
• Lead product modeling and configuration governance, ensuring models are maintainable, reusable, scalable, and aligned with business rules.
• Guide the design of Advanced Variant Configuration capabilities in SAP S/4HANA and evaluate fit with classic Variant Configuration based on client requirements.
• Coordinate integration across Sales and Distribution, Production Planning, Materials Management, Product Lifecycle Management, pricing, engineering, and manufacturing processes.
• Oversee functional specifications, configuration, data conversion, unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, cutover, and post-production support.
• Manage onshore and offshore team members, project milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery quality.
• Cultivate trusted relationships with client stakeholders and clearly communicate solution decisions, project status, risks, and results.
• This role requires regular travel to meet client needs.

Skills

SAP Variant Configuration

Leadership

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree (4-year degree)

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Variant Configuration design

Sales & Distribution integration

Job description

EY is seeking an innovative SAP professional to join our Technology Consulting team, specializing in SAP Variant Configuration within the Core Supply Chain capability. You will design and implement scalable configuration solutions connecting sales, engineering, manufacturing and supply chain processes in SAP S/4HANA.

You will lead workshops, model configurations, govern variant configuration, and coordinate integrations with SAP modules, ensuring alignment with client needs.