Senior Sap Consultant Porto

Senior Sap Consultant
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Job Title:

SAP PP Manufacturing Consultant (MES Experience)

Location:

Portugal (remote w/occasional trips)

Industry:

Pharmaceutical

Employment Type:

Freelance, 1 year, extendable

Language Requirements:

Fluent English (mandatory)

About the Company

Join a leading global pharmaceutical company committed to innovation, quality, and improving lives. With
- edge manufacturing operations and a growing digital transformation program, the company offers a dynamic environment where technology and life sciences meet.

The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated SAP PP Consultant to ensure the delivery of
- quality process and technical solutions together with proper documentation, validation and testing and data preparation for SAP Planning processes and in particular detailed scheduling processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the translation of functional business requirements into technical solutions and support business in user requirements definition.
• Perform detail analysis of complex business process requirements and propose solutions.
• Lead the Design and Fit-To-Template SAP S/4 Hana Planning (e
  PPDS optional) workshops with local markets/sites, coordinate the identification and resolution of Requirements, Gaps and Deviations, and support the planning Team with the required design activities.
• Liaise with the relevant stakeholders to drive process standardization & global template alignment.
• Create functional design specifications (FDS) and support developers on the creation of the technical design specifications (TDS).
• Build and Unit Test the functional solution into SAP.
• Keep the project documentation updated ( Design Documents, Process Flows, configuration document etc. ).
• Provide support to global data standards definition, cleansing and migration.
• Support E2E testing activities (testing documentation, data and other prerequisites) and the resolution of testing defects.
• Support the Cutover Plan activities and execute the necessary cutover tasks.

Required Skills & Experience
At

• least 8 years experience in SAP Planning and Manufacturing modules.
• Very good understanding of the SAP Planning and Manufacturing (PP-PI) processes and integration with other modules of SAP, namely:
  
  EWM QM, IM, and PM.
• Hands on experience dealing with SAP interfaces;
  
  
  
  experience with SAP Planning interfaces such as IBP, APO or Kinaxis Rapid Response, will be a plus.
• Proven experience in implementing SAP S/4Hana e
  PPDS implementation projects (experience in one or more full cycle implementation of SAP S/4 Hana e
  PPDS is required).
• Hands on experience in the key SAP S/4 functionalities Planning and Manufacturing, ideally in pharma environment, including SAP configuration, specification and testing.
• Strong analytical & problem solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication.
• Good English communication skills. T
• Team player, able to share knowledge and support colleagues.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to SAP S/4HANA projects.
• Experienced with MES
• Experience in multinational or regulated industries(Life Sciences or F&B)
• Portuguese language skills are a plus.

What’s on Offer

• Opportunity to work on
  - impact digital transformation projects in a regulated environment.
• Collaborative and international team culture. Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexibility with hybrid work options (on-site presence may be required during key phases).
• Career development support and training programs.
• Long-term project.

Interested?

Apply now and be part of a team that shapes the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing.