SAP Product Manager

SAP MM Product Manager – LL6 (Primary Skill – Product Development; Secondary – Program management)
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Understand the current business process across all regions / plants.
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Independently guide and mentor junior team members, fostering their development and ensuring high-quality deliverables.
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Understand the functionality of current Legacy Material requirements Planning (MRP) and associated upstream and downstream systems
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Work with various stakeholders to study the transformation of current process / legacy systems to Industry best standards / technology/ systems focusing on the SAP MM module
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Perform Requirements Gathering, Business Analysis, and Fit-Gap / Fit-to-Standard Analysis to understand the as-is/to-be states and identify key functionality / process gaps
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Recommend possible technology / process solution to address gaps
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Develop roadmap / transformation map without impacting the operations
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Deploy SAP S/4 MM across various sites globally and integrate with both legacy & other best-in-breed applications
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Provide recommendations for continuous improvement
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Defining the overall test strategy, scope, and approach for the project.
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Preparing and managing test plans, test scenarios, and test schedules.
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Coordinating SIT, UAT, regression, and other testing phases with functional and technical teams.
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Leading and mentoring the testing team, assigning tasks, and tracking progress.
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Ensuring defects are logged with proper analysis, prioritization, and follow-up until closure.
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Collaborating closely with business users, developers, functional consultants, and project managers.
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Monitoring test coverage, quality metrics, risks, and issue resolution timelines.
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Driving daily status reviews and providing clear reporting on testing progress, blockers, and quality status.
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Ensuring test evidence, documentation, and sign-offs are completed as per governance standards.
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Work closely with product owners and product anchors to establish an inclusive product roadmap for Production planning and Inventory management business transformation
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Lead the blueprinting sessions to understand the Production Planning business requirements, work closely with functional and technical consultants and product owners to derive an overall solution.
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Handle the release and cutover of SAP MMP program.
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Analyze the need for customization and prioritize the RICEFW objects and size them
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Ensure the product roadmap and prioritization is aligned across other product teams
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Create functional specification, Key design document, prototypes or Proof-of-Concepts wherever required
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Collaborate with integration team to Integrate SAP MMP system with other supply chain downstream and up-stream system
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Have good functional knowledge on IDOC’s, BADI, Fiori applications etc.
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Troubleshooting and resolving functional issues related to the SAP MM system.
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Collaborating with the technical team to understand and implement business requirements.
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Ensuring the system is performing optimally and securely.
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Minimum of 13+ years of relevant experience
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Industry process knowledge, solution expertise, consultation skills in SAP MM
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Excellent understanding of the overall SAP MM solution and how it is implemented in conjunction with other components of the S/4 HANA modules like SAP Production Planning and SAP PPDS
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Good knowledge on automotive assembly and manufacturing domain with good communication skills
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Experience in SAP MM module configuration
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Experience working in SAP S4 Hana environment
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Handled / worked with global teams
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Automotive experience is preferred
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Support in an onshore/offshore model is preferred
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Respect and empathy for team members, business partner and product customer
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Excellent at problem solving and prevention.
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Knowledge and practical experience of agile delivery
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Demonstrated ability to deliver product roadmap milestones

• Respect and empathy for team members, business partner and product customer

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Should possess complete knowledge of every phase of SAP implementation including creation of business blueprint, implementation, data migration, cutover and go-live
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Ability to discover what is valuable, usable, and feasible acting in the intersection of business, technology and user experience.
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Have a strong pulse on the business / IT landscape to determine how to rigorously prioritize features to best suit the market conditions.
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Experience in Agile methodology effectively when performing all tasks.