SAP Plan to Produce Business Process Lead

Accountabilities

• Lead the business through the Plan to Produce workstream of a large-scale SAP S/4HANA transformation, ensuring process design remains aligned with business objectives.

• Guide the program through fit-to-standard workshops for the Plan to Produce domain, helping stakeholders assess business requirements against standard SAP capabilities and best practices.

• Define and drive business process designs that prioritize operational outcomes and business needs over technology-led decisions.

• Identify, manage, and resolve cross-workstream process dependencies to ensure alignment across the broader transformation program.

• Maintain process integrity throughout design, build, and deployment, ensuring that agreed business processes are consistently reflected in the solution.

• Translate SAP S/4HANA functionality into clearly defined business processes, master data requirements, and operational inputs.

• Support process design across demand management and supply planning, production engineering and execution, material staging and production supply, quality management, and batch and inventory management.

• Develop and document business process flows that provide clear guidance for implementation and operational alignment.

• Apply SAP best practices and structured process design methodologies to support consistent, effective transformation outcomes.

Requirements

• Deep experience in business process design, particularly within SAP environments, supported by a strong understanding of underlying business operations independent of specific technology.

• Proven experience implementing SAP through a business-led transformation approach in which process design drives system design.

• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA functionality across the Plan to Produce domain, including:

  • Demand management and supply planning.

  • Production engineering and execution.

  • Material staging and production supply.

  • Quality management.

  • Batch and inventory management.

  • Ability to work backward from SAP functionality to define the business processes, master data, and operational inputs required for successful implementation.

  • Demonstrated experience creating detailed business process flows and translating complex operational requirements into clear process documentation.

  • Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills, particularly when leading fit-to-standard workshops and resolving cross-functional process dependencies.

  • Ability to maintain a business-first perspective while balancing standard SAP capabilities, operational requirements, and transformation objectives.

  Preferred qualifications:

  • Working knowledge of SAP's Activate methodology and experience leveraging SAP Best Practice process flows.

  • Experience creating business process flows using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standards.

  Benefits

  • Hourly compensation: $115–$130 per hour.

  • Contract engagement: 1099 independent contractor arrangement.

  • Work location: Remote within the United States.

  • Travel: Some travel to client sites may be required, typically on a monthly or quarterly basis.

  • Benefits eligibility: This independent contractor engagement is not eligible for the partner company's employee benefits.

  • Healthcare, paid leave, retirement, and other perks: Not specified for this contract position.