Functional Lead for SAP Production Planning/Plant Maintenance (PP/MM) - Manila

Critical Work Responsibilities:

• Provides the primary Production/Operational Support and System Enhancements on SAP ECC mainly for SAP PP functionalities
• Participates in project implementation (e.g. upgrade to S4/HANA, small or big scale enhancement requests) providing expertise and recommending best practices in Production Planning (SAP PP) and Plant Maintenance (PM)
• Facilitates requirements gathering workshops/discussions and assess, challenge, and document the business requirements
• Provides system solutions, along with identifying, validating, and interpreting business needs and requirements
• Responsible for designing, customizing, configuring, and testing modules of PP particularly for change requests and enhancement projects
• Develops program/functional specifications on ABAP enabled reports or programs, and spearheads in thorough testing prior to handing over to end-users for UAT
• Provides application maintenance support, taking care of concerns and errors encountered by end-users; doing the necessary analysis and investigation and finding/applying permanent or workaround solutions.
• Performs functional testing to validate that system changes and/or enhancements are aligned to functional/business requirements as well as carry out integration testing to ensure no functionality gets broken or impacted upon deployment to production environment
• Responsible for preparing and maintaining required documentation, including, but not limited to functional specification documentation, business procedures, quick reference guides and user manuals
• Prepares company-specific training and training materials related to PP/PM and conducts classroom or virtual training to end-users
• Prepares workflow to ensure that projects can be completed within defined scope, budget and time
• Comes up with innovative solutions of high value and impact to the organization

• College degree (B.S.) in Computer Science, Information Management Systems, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering or a related discipline
• At least 6 years work experience in SAP PP - Production Planning and SAP PM – Plant Maintenance
• At least 2 full cycle PP implementation and Experience on Project and Operational Support Environment
• Support Experience with SAP QM is a plus
• PP/PM-Master Data Sound knowledge of MRP. Planning Strategies (MTS,MTO). Product on Execution. Scheduling. Well conversant in Batch Management. Equipment Master, Functional Locations, Planning Group
• BOM, Resource/Work Center. Recipe/Routing, Product on version, Goods Receipt. Goods Issue etc.
• In depth knowledge on SAP ERP function modules (e.g. Sales & Distribution, Material Management, Logistics, WM, etc.) is required
• Knowledge on PP Process Industries, PM + PLM + APO/IBP and other system Interfaces
• Thirst for knowledge and eagerness to learn and grow skills in new areas and technologies
• Strong business and analytics skills along with problem solving and analytical abilities
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills as well as presentation skills
• Experience and/or exposure to SAP S/4 HANA is a plus
• Able to take ownership of assignments and provide workable solutions
• Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change