SAP Production Planning(PP) / Manufacturing Functional, Amazon Leo
Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the role
Our team focuses on building Enterprise Application systems for manufacturing satellites. Your customers are Manufacturing, Operations, and the Supply Chain teams at Kuiper. As the SAP Manufacturing Functional Lead, you will serve as the functional expert for SAP Production Planning (PP), designing scalable, business-driven solutions that support manufacturing operations across the enterprise. You will lead the analysis, design, enhancement, implementation, and ongoing support of SAP manufacturing capabilities while ensuring alignment with SAP best practices and Clean Core principles. You will work closely with Product Managers, SAP functional and technical teams, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), and business stakeholders to deliver integrated end-to-end manufacturing solutions.
Responsibilities
- Build product vision and solutions in SAP PP / Manufacturing areas.
- Identify and implement best practices to optimize business processes using SAP and champion utility, intuitiveness, and simplicity of process/product while ensuring alignment to Clean Core principles.
- Conduct Blueprint workshops, fit-gap analysis, and produce detailed design documents reasoning from core needs.
- Participate in strategic planning and roadmap discussions for SAP PP solutions, including contributions to Amazon’s 1-year to 3-year annual planning.
- Manage quarterly planning, sprint planning, and deployment for product feature enhancements, focusing on business value and impact.
- Manage the product backlog, ensuring backlog items are fully defined, solution-ready, and approved before development starts to result in low solution churn.
- Prepare product design, functional specifications, configure, test, and support implementation for all SAP RICEFW areas.
- Build and support integration with cross-workstream processes—SAP EWM, QM, MM, SAP MES, and PLM systems.
- Identify change management and training needs, support creating training documentation, and lead train-the-trainer sessions for product changes.
- Deliver solutions that improve manufacturing efficiency, inventory accuracy, quality, and production visibility.
- Define critical metrics including success metrics, product adoption, and data-driven insights for product improvement.
- Collaborate with functional owners, architects, and developers to build dynamic and flexible systems to meet emerging demands of internal customers in manufacturing.
- Support production systems for tickets, bug fixes, and identify optimization opportunities to enhance overall process and system performance.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable, integrated SAP manufacturing solutions.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product.
- 6+ years of implementing and managing SAP ERP solutions, with a strong focus on SAP S/4HANA experience.
- 6+ years of SAP Production Planning/Manufacturing implementation experience with 3+ years of experience integrating with MES or other Shop Floor Execution systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing relationships with SAP customers and partners.
- Experience in SAP S/4HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Cloud ERP, and Cloud ERP Private.
- Experience in SAP clean core design concepts, including design and build using non-SAP technologies in domains such as Generative/Agentic AI, and data & analytics.
Benefits
Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and options for Supplemental life plans), EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits.
Pay
USA, WA, Bellevue - $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.