Program Director - SAP Extended Spare Parts Planning and Scheduling

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead the functional vision and transformation roadmap for SAP S/4HANA eSPP in an A&D Aftermarket environment.
• Define and govern the target planning operating model for service parts and aftermarket supply chain.
• Partner with client business leadership to improve service levels, optimize inventory, and enable resilient spare parts planning capabilities.
• Direct functional solution design for service parts planning and replenishment across global distribution and aftermarket networks.
• Design planning processes for: Critical spare forecasting, Stocking policy optimization, Multi-location replenishment, Service-level based planning, Repair-driven and intermittent demand scenarios.
• Ensure integration across S/4HANA processes, warehousing, logistics, and planning layers.
• Lead large cross-functional teams across business, IT, and system integration streams.
• Drive design governance, solution quality, fit-gap closure, and executive decision making.
• Establish roadmap, milestones, issue resolution mechanisms, and delivery controls for successful implementation.
• Ensure program predictability, timeline adherence, and value realization across the service parts transformation initiative.
• Act as a trusted advisor to supply chain, operations, aftermarket, and digital leadership teams.
• Facilitate workshops, steering reviews, design forums, and executive governance meetings.
• Translate business priorities into scalable SAP-enabled planning capabilities.
• Drive measurable outcomes such as: Improved spare parts availability, Reduced backorders, Improved forecast and replenishment accuracy, Lower excess / obsolete inventory, Improved working capital efficiency.
• Support KPI framework development and executive reporting for transformation value tracking.
• Identify opportunities to modernize aftermarket planning capabilities with analytics, automation, and intelligent planning approaches.
• Drive evolution from legacy planning practices toward digitally enabled service-parts planning and supply orchestration.

Qualifications

• BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE