Process Architect Plan-to-Produce (m/f/d)

The Process Architect Plan-to-Produce (m/f/d) supports the Process Owner and Global Process Owner in defining future-state business processes, translating business requirements into solution designs, and ensuring the successful deployment of standardized end-to-end production processes across all manufacturing sites.  

Your responsibilities:

• Translate business needs from manufacturing sites into clear process requirements, functional specifications, user requirements, and solution design inputs.

• Collaborate with Solution Architects, IT teams, MES experts, Quality, Warehouse Operations, Planning, and Production stakeholders to design scalable, compliant, and standardized SAP S/4HANA PP-PI processes.

• Support Fit-to-Template workshops, design validation, and decision preparation for template deviations or local requirements.

• Define and maintain process models, process flows, business rules, and documentation for Level 2 and Level 3 Plan-to-Produce processes, ensuring alignment with end-to-end value streams.

• Contribute to master data governance for production-relevant objects such as BOMs, master recipes, routings, work centers/resources, production versions, and planning parameters, in collaboration with Global Data Stewards.

• Support the definition of data migration concepts, cleansing rules, validation checks, and mock-load activities to ensure high data quality for production master data.

• Support test strategy and execution, including preparation of test scenarios, OQ/PQ documentation, defect clarification, business validation, and coordination of site testing activities.

• Deliver process and system training, and support user adoption during deployment, hypercare, and continuous improvement phases.

• Identify process risks, issues, dependencies, and improvement opportunities, and support the Process Owner in prioritization, decision tracking, and project management activities.

Your qualifications:

• University degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, Life Sciences, or a comparable field.

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in production, business process management, ERP transformation, or process architecture, preferably in the pharmaceutical, MedTech, nutrition, or other regulated industry.

• Strong end-to-end understanding of Plan-to-Produce processes, including production planning, production execution, shop-floor operations, quality integration, warehouse integration, and master data dependencies.

• Hands-on knowledge of SAP S/4HANA manufacturing capabilities, including PP-PI, Fiori apps, and related cross-functional integration points.

• Solid understanding of production master data objects.

• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex process dependencies and propose pragmatic, standardized solutions.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with global, cross-functional, and site-based teams.

• High learning agility, adaptability to evolving business requirements and technologies, and strong motivation to drive harmonization and continuous improvement.

• Business fluency in English, both written and spoken; additional languages are an advantage.

• Willingness to travel internationally, approximately 30%, depending on project and deployment needs.

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