SAP PM Architect - Remote (onsite preferred in Chicago, IL or Overland Park, KS) with 25% travel

Job Description

Our client, a well-known, name brand food manufacturing company, in their efforts to hire an SAP Plant Operations Lead (aka SAP Manufacturing Lead).

In this role, you would oversee and interact with various SAP modules including PM, MM, PP, EHS, and QM. Our client would prefer someone who lives or will relocate to the Kansas City area...but will consider someone "remote" (with occasional visits to the HQ).

What we need from you:

• 10 years of IT industry work experience, including business systems analysis, solution design, application development, and deployment of major Enterprise solutions.
• Delivery experience of Business Applications.
• Solid understanding of business processes, including but not limited to Plant Maintenance, Manufacturing, Quality, Environmental Health and Safety, Package Shipping, Bulk Shipping, and Warehouse Management.
• Team building capabilities, negotiation skills, and capacity to drive win-win outcomes.
• Experience working in a distributed, team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Demonstrated experience with large Enterprise ERP implementations in the areas of technical design specification, development, and knowledge transfer.
• Experience in SAP functionality in a wide range of areas, specifically PP, PM, QM, EH&S, ITS Mobile, MM. 5 years and 2 full life cycle implementations desired.
• Experience deploying, supporting, and enhancing applications related to bulk shipping, specifically Pacweigh and/or JWS.
• Experience in Master Data and its role in enabling systems.
• Experience with functional design and configuration of IT Applications.
• Experience with end-user support for SAP and non-SAP systems, providing a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Proficient in project management methodologies, with the ability to lead SAP implementation and optimization projects on time and within budget.
• Experience with: MS Windows, Networking, Serial and TCP/IP Communication protocols, Microsoft Office including Outlook, SQL Server.

Would be great if you also had:

• Spanish and/or French language skills.
• Basic understanding of SAP ECC 6.0 and any of the core modules (FI, SD, HR, LE) and manufacturing and consumer products business processes.
• Experience in ABAP, ABAP OOPS, Smart Forms, SAP Scripts.
• Experience with SAP S/4 HANA Maintenance, Production, and Quality processes.
• Basic understanding of SAP BW system and query design.

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