SAP Variant Configuration Manager | Tech Consulting

EY; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 143,000 - 297,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off options

Job summary

EY’s Technology Consulting team seeks an innovative SAP professional specializing in SAP Variant Configuration within the Core Supply Chain capability.

You will help clients design and implement scalable product configuration solutions that connect sales, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain processes across SAP S/4HANA, working with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into functional designs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (4-year degree).
• Typically 4–6 years of relevant SAP-enabled manufacturing/product configuration/engineering experience.
• Minimum 3 years hands-on SAP Variant Configuration experience, incl. materials, characteristics, classes, config profiles, object dependencies.
• Experience designing/configuring product models with configurable materials, classes, characteristics, class types, configuration profiles, object dependencies.
• Experience integrating Variant Configuration with SAP SD, PP, MM, pricing, BOMs, routings, and master data.
• Proven track record of leading teams to deliver project outcomes on deadlines.
• Experience managing SAP projects/workstreams and project-based teams in manufacturing or engineer-to-order environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service, and technical writing skills.
• Flexibility and travel willingness; travel 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.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Client-facing skills

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP Variant Configuration

SAP S/4HANA AVC

Job description

EY’s Technology Consulting team seeks an innovative SAP professional specializing in SAP Variant Configuration within the Core Supply Chain capability.

You will help clients design and implement scalable product configuration solutions that connect sales, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain processes across SAP S/4HANA, working with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into functional designs.