SAP Manufacturing & Production Planning Functional Specialist

Job Role: SAP Manufacturing & Production Planning Functional Specialist Location: Cleveland OH, highly pref. Cary, NC or Chicago, IL 4 days a week in office
Duration: Full Time / Direct Hire
Requirements:

• Top Must-Haves:

SAP Manufacturing & Production Planning Functional Specialist II (MM/PP)

• Material Management (MM), and Production Planning (PP)

1. For Both openings, responsibilities and scope are the same:
• Ability to gather requirements, deliver to ABAP dev team
• Support system testing, hypercare post implementation
• Must come from manufacturing domain
• S4 is preferred, but can accept ECC experience
• Must have supported an SAP implementation/migration at some point
• Ability to handle configurations within SAP

MustHaves (even stricter than SD role)

• Strong SAP MM and PP experience
• Material Management
• Production Planning
• SAP implementation background:
• S/4HANA preferred
• ECC acceptable
• Candidate must already know how to manage it in the system
• Manufacturing expertise is critical:
• Discrete manufacturing experience strongly preferred
• Process manufacturing (chemical/pharma) is acceptable only if candidate can adapt quickly
• Candidates with no manufacturing background were explicitly flagged as a poor fit [
• Seniorlevel tenure:
• 7+ years experience (grade52 requirement)
• Expected to operate independently and lead conversations
• Functional technical bridge:
• Translate manufacturing planning processes into SAP
• Partner with ABAP developers as needed

Core Responsibilities (MM / PP specific)

• Own plantoproduce business processes
• Define and document MM/PP workflows
• Support SAP configuration aligned to how plants actually operate
• Lead functional testing scenarios tied to manufacturing realities
• Assist divisions during deployment, training, and hypercare periods

NicetoHaves

• Experience across both discrete and process manufacturing
• Background supporting large, multiplant environments
• Exposure to global ERP rollouts

How Interviewer Framed Both Roles Overall

• These are SAPspecialized business process roles
• Comparable to a senior Business Analyst / Product Owner, but deeply SAPfunctional
• Candidates must come in ready, not trainup resources

Soft skills matter: strong communication with business users and technical teams is expected