Senior SAP PLM Leader: Drive Innovation & Integration

EY; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 143,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Pension and 401(k) plans

Paid time off options

Job summary

EY is seeking an accomplished SAP PLM Manager to lead transformation initiatives across enterprise PLM capabilities, including data governance, engineering changes, and BOMs. You will partner with engineering, manufacturing, and IT to deliver scalable, compliant solutions within SAP S/4HANA and Windchill interfaces.

You will oversee cross-functional delivery teams, engage senior stakeholders, and drive time-to-market improvements while ensuring quality and regulatory alignment across product

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills.
• Proven ability to manage engagement economics and resource planning.
• Experience in leading teams and managing change effectively.
• Ability to identify opportunities for additional services and lead specific RFP responses.

Responsibilities

• Own the SAP PLM roadmap and translate business priorities into a clear portfolio of process, data, integration, and technology initiatives.
• Lead end-to-end delivery across discovery, requirements, fit-to-standard design, configuration, development, testing, data migration, cutover, deployment, hypercare, and ongoing optimization.
• Design and govern PLM processes, including material and product master data, document management, bills of materials, classifications, specifications, engineering records, engineering change management, product structures, recipes, and new product introduction.
• Facilitate workshops with business and technical stakeholders to document current-state processes, define future-state capabilities, resolve design decisions, and secure approvals.
• Lead the design and delivery of the PTC Windchill and SAP S/4HANA interface, including integration architecture, data mapping, transformation rules, validation, error handling, monitoring, security, reconciliation, and support procedures for parts and materials, EBOMs and MBOMs, documents and drawings, revisions, effectivity, engineering changes, routings, and release statuses.
• Coordinate with engineering, manufacturing, master data, integration, and security teams to establish system-of-record ownership, field-level mappings, synchronization rules, interface controls, and end-to-end release and change-management workflows between Windchill and SAP.
• Lead interface testing and operational readiness, including unit testing, system integration testing, regression testing, performance testing, cutover rehearsals, reconciliation, exception resolution, and production monitoring.
• Lead Engineering Change Management (ECM) processes across PTC Windchill and SAP S/4HANA, including Engineering Change Requests (ECRs), Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), impact analysis, workflow approvals, change numbers, revision control, effectivity dates, release status, audit traceability, and coordinated implementation of changes to materials, BOMs, routings, documents, and production master data.
• Manage functional consultants, developers, data resources, testing teams, system integrators, and third-party vendors; establish priorities, monitor deliverables, and support team development.
• Maintain solution quality through architecture reviews, design standards, clean-core principles, configuration governance, documentation, controls, and release management.
• Oversee testing strategy, defect management, data validation, cutover readiness, business continuity, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, scope changes, and resource constraints; provide clear status reporting and recommendations to program leadership.
• Partner with change management and training teams to drive stakeholder engagement, user readiness, adoption, and measurable business outcomes.
• Support production operations by establishing incident, problem, enhancement, and service-management processes and by monitoring solution performance.
• Evaluate SAP innovations and product roadmaps, recommending capabilities that improve time-to-market, product quality, compliance, traceability, and engineering productivity.

Skills

Analytical skills

Engagement management

Team leadership

RFP responses

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SAP PLM

PTC Windchill

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

EY is seeking an accomplished SAP PLM Manager to lead transformation initiatives across enterprise PLM capabilities, including data governance, engineering changes, and BOMs. You will partner with engineering, manufacturing, and IT to deliver scalable, compliant solutions within SAP S/4HANA and Windchill interfaces.

You will oversee cross-functional delivery teams, engage senior stakeholders, and drive time-to-market improvements while ensuring quality and regulatory alignment across product