Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- 10+ years of SAP experience with deep expertise in SAP S/4HANA Product Compliance, product stewardship, or regulatory compliance.
- Minimum two end-to-end Product Compliance implementations, including solution architecture ownership on an SAP S/4HANA program.
- Expertise in Product Marketability and Chemical Compliance, Dangerous Goods Management, and Safety Data Sheet and Label Management.
- Strong knowledge of compliance requirements and purposes, listed substances, regulatory content, supplier compliance, compliance assessments, and product compliance status.
- Experience with regulations and standards such as REACH, RoHS, TSCA, GHS, and applicable dangerous goods requirements.
- Experience with substance, composition, specification, product, material, supplier, and regulatory master data, including governance and migration.
- Strong integration experience with Product Development, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Sales, Delivery, Transportation, EWM, and Global Trade processes.
- Experience designing transactional compliance checks, business blocks, releases, workflows, exception handling, and audit trails.
- Knowledge of SDS generation and shipment, dangerous goods classification, packaging and transport checks, labeling, and regulatory reporting.
- Experience with SAP Fiori, roles and authorizations, APIs/interfaces, forms, output management, SAP BTP integration patterns, and embedded analytics.
- Experience leading fit-to-standard workshops, solution governance, functional specifications, testing, migration, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
- Strong knowledge of SAP Activate, global template governance, clean-core principles, and large manufacturing transformation programs.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Product Compliance solution architecture for the program and align it with enterprise architecture and the global template.
- Lead fit-to-standard workshops with Product Stewardship, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, Sales, Legal, Trade, and Regulatory stakeholders.
- Define the target design for Product Marketability and Chemical Compliance, Dangerous Goods Management, and Safety Data Sheet and Label Management.
- Design compliance requirements, purposes, regulatory-content activation, listed-substance management, assessment processes, and compliance-status controls.
- Define product, raw-material, supplier, composition, substance, specification, and regulatory master-data models, ownership, governance, and migration.
- Design integration across product development, BOM changes, sourcing, purchasing, manufacturing, quality, sales orders, deliveries, warehousing, and transportation.
- Establish automated checks, product blocks, approvals, task and event processing, exception management, auditability, and operational monitoring.
- Define dangerous goods classification, packaging, labeling, transport checks, and logistics integration for global operations.
- Define SDS and label authoring, generation, versioning, distribution, shipment, and document-management processes.
- Assess legacy SAP and external solutions, define transition architecture, and lead process and data migration to SAP S/4HANA Product Compliance.
- Guide WRICEF, interfaces, forms, workflows, security, analytics, and BTP designs while controlling customization and protecting clean-core objectives.
- Partner with SAP, regulatory-content providers, implementation teams, and business owners to resolve design gaps and product dependencies.
- Lead reviews, integration testing, defect resolution, mock conversions, cutover, deployment readiness, go-live, and hypercare.
- Proactively identify compliance and delivery risks, drive decisions, mentor teams, and communicate architecture recommendations to program leadership.
Generic Managerial Skills, If any
- Strong solution leadership, ownership, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to translate complex regulatory needs into scalable SAP processes and architecture.
- Ability to lead cross-functional business, functional, technical, data, integration, security, and change teams.
- Experience coordinating onshore, offshore, SAP, and external regulatory-content providers.
- Strong governance, risk management, decision facilitation, conflict resolution, and escalation skills.
- Proactive approach to challenging unsupported customizations and driving sustainable outcomes.
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