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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: APIERPIDocSupportMarketingMatrixSAP S/4HANASAP 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 33 week of 2026