Digital SAP Manager-Supply Chain

About the role

Join the world's largest HVAC company, named by Forbes as one of America's Best-In-State Employers 2025! Make your mark at the world’s largest HVAC company Daikin Applied Americas is seeking a strategic and execution-focused Digital SAP Manager - Supply Chain to join our team.

Responsibilities

• SAP Supply Chain Management: Manage the design, configuration, and maintenance of all Supply Chain Processes in SAP (S4 HANA)
• End-to-end SAP enabled supply chain lifecycle: Ensure seamless integration across demand planning, supply planning, procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer fulfillment
• Data accuracy, completeness, and consistency: Ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency across SAP modules (MM, SD, PP, FI, etc.)
• Monitor and resolve data quality issues: Use SAP tools and third-party solutions to monitor and resolve data quality issues
• Master Data Governance & Strategy: Define and execute SAP enabled supply chain governance frameworks with a strong focus on manufacturing operations, plant execution, and production control
• Global manufacturing process standards: Own global manufacturing process standards and templates across SAP S/4HANA modules including PP, MM, QM, EWM, SD, FI/CO, and integrations with PLM and MESE
• Tight alignment: Ensure tight alignment between manufacturing strategy, capacity planning, cost controls, and SAP digital transformation initiatives
• Production master data and execution structures: Drive standardization and compliance across make to stock, make to order, engineer to order, and configure to order manufacturing models
• Team Leadership & Collaboration: Lead a team of data analysts or specialists, provide guidance and performance management, partner closely with Plant Leadership, Engineering, Quality, and Operations
• Project & Change Management: Lead continuous improvement initiatives leveraging SAP to reduce downtime, improve throughput, optimize capacity utilization, and lower manufacturing costs, manage change requests and ensure proper documentation and testing
• Reporting & Analytics: Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to monitor data quality KPIs, provide insights and recommendations based on data trends and anomalies

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or related field or equivalent experience
• 6-8 years of SAP experience, with at least 3 years in leading SAP Supply Chain management, preferably in a global enterprise environment
• 2-4 years of leadership experience
• Proven track record of leading SAP projects and managing cross-functional teams
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead cross-functional digital transformation initiatives
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA RISE implementation
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Preferred Skills

• 10+ years of SAP experience, with at least 3 years in leading SAP Supply Chain management, preferably in a global enterprise environment
• SAP Certification
• Knowledge of MM, SD, PP, EWM, TM, IBP, FI/CO
• Experience working in multi plant, multi country SAP landscapes
• Familiarity with Agile or hybrid project management methodologies
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Benefits

• Multiple medical insurance plan options + dental and vision insurance
• 401K retirement plan with employer contributions matching 15% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% on the next 2% of employee contributions
• Company provided life insurance + optional employee paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage and voluntary accident coverage
• Short term and long-term disability
• 3 weeks of paid time off for new employees + 11 company paid holidays
• Vacation accrues on a monthly basis, unless applicable federal, state and local law requires a faster accrual
• Paid sick time in accordance of the federal, state and local law
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service

Pay

The typical annual base salary for this position ranges from $100,800 - $171,700 (+ 15% bonus) in Minnesota. The range displayed represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade which this position falls. Individual base pay will depend on a wide range of factors including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.