ERP SME & Global Design Authority

Salary: £137,500 - 150,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on implementation experience with SAP S/4HANA PP/DS and Planning & Scheduling, including MRP and MRP Live, work centres, routings, capacity models, sequencing, and finite scheduling.
• Demonstrable experience delivering or integrating Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) tools such as Kinaxis, enterprise scheduling tools, ePP/DS, or equivalent.
• Experience working on large-scale ERP transformation programmes.
• Proven ability to work effectively with and influence System Integrators, including challenging design decisions constructively.
• Experience designing or operating Planning & Scheduling across multiple factories, including intercompany flows.
• Strong knowledge of S/4 integration patterns such as IDoc, API, EDI, and RFC between ERP and APS/MES ecosystems.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and problem-solving capability, with the ability to translate complex requirements into workable design.
• A bachelors degree, or equivalent experience, in IT, Engineering, Business Systems, or a related field.
• SAP S/4HANA certification is preferred but not essential.
• Experience in FMCG or other global matrix organisations is a plus.
• Exposure to SAP data migration tooling and approaches is a plus.
• Experience working in agile or hybrid delivery environments is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Lead global Planning & Scheduling design across SAP S/4HANA.
• Shape key design decisions and maintain governance across the delivery lifecycle.
• Reduce programme risk by identifying design gaps, data issues, integration challenges, and capacity limitations early.
• Drive solution design decisions and recommendations aligned to programme methodology and global template principles.
• Partner with cross-functional teams across Operations, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance, Procurement, Marketing, Master Data, Testing, and Data.
• Collaborate closely with System Integrators and platform/CoE teams, providing oversight, challenge, and guidance on design and build decisions.
• Ensure functional specifications are complete, accurate, traceable, and aligned to end-to-end business needs.
• Support integration design between S/4HANA and connected systems such as APS and MES, including interim operating models where required.
• Oversee configuration and delivery of bespoke elements such as extensions, integrations, and workflows.
• Support all testing phases, including Unit, SIT, End-to-End, UAT, and Regression.
• Support and guide data migration activities for master and transactional data.
• Support cutover and hypercare readiness across entities, factories, and intercompany flows.
• Contribute to end-user enablement, training, and knowledge transfer to support sustainable adoption.
• Proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies, and escalate them with practical mitigation options.
• Ensure the solution design meets internal controls, policies, regulatory, and audit requirements.

Technologies:

• API
• ERP
• IDoc
• Support
• Marketing
• Matrix
• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP

More:

We are a leading global FMCG organisation delivering a major SAP S/4HANA transformation. We are seeking a Global Planning & Scheduling Design Authority to lead end-to-end solution design across planning, detailed scheduling, and capacity. This role works closely with business stakeholders and system integration partners to shape a robust, future-fit global template that is testable and deployable at scale. You will help maintain strong governance across the programme and contribute to a complex global delivery environment spanning multiple functions, factories, and connected systems.

last updated 32 week of 2026