IT SAP Lead

**OVERVIEW**:
The SAP APAC COE Plan-to-Produce (PTP) and Quality Management (QM) lead position will require highly qualified knowledge & experiences of designing and implementing SAP Production Planning (PP) and Quality Management (QM) processes within a global manufacturing organization.

This position will work closely with the Gates GPOs (Global Process Owners), Regional Process Owners (RPOs), Regional SAP Teams and Gates Planning, Manufacturing, Product Data Management and Quality Management site SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), to drive to a standard Global PTP and QM template across Gates Corporation. They will participate in the design and building of these Global policies, procedures and processes, master data, roles definition and change management for the Global Leading Practice Template (GLPT) in an SAP S/4HANA environment.

This position will require strong consulting skills, complex solution design, business knowledge and SAP S/4HANA solution expertise to effectively integrate an SAP-enabled GLPT into the Gates business environment to achieve desired business results.

This role needs both core SAP PP and QM knowledge and experience - but also in-depth business process knowledge - and have experience of building and driving standard processes adoption through SAP implementation and roll-out projects.

The APAC geographical scope includes China, Thailand, Australia, India, Japan and Korea.

Bilingual communication skills - English and Mandarin - are a must.

**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES**:
The SAP PTP/QM Lead specific responsibilities will fall into 3 primary areas:
**GLPT Design, Build and Maintenance**

Working closely with the Manufacturing, Planning and Product Data Management GPOs (Global Process Owners); EMEA SME's; and Regional SAP teams in the design and build of GLPT. Including, but not limited to the following PTP Processes:

- SAP Discrete Manufacturing
- SAP Planning & Scheduling (inc SAP Long Term Planning, MPS and MRP)
- SAP Kanban
- SAP Production Processes (Assemble-to-Order, Make-to-Order and Make-to-Stock)
- SAP Batch management
- Serial Number Management
- SAP Planning Processes and System Integration
- SAP Quality Management
- SAP Material Management - optional but preferred.
- Master Data Maintenance (Materials, BOMs, Work Center and Routings)
- Engineering Processes (PDM, DMS, ECR/ECO/ECN)
- Knowledge of MVP / Lean / Six Sigma
- Knowledge of Advance Planning Systems (SAP IBP or other)
- Knowledge of MES System Integration with SAP
- Knowledge of MM, MM integration and WM-PP Interface

**System and Process Governance**
- Creating, enforcing and following standards and procedures defined by the GPOs and Regional SAP Teams to provide governance to new full-cycle SAP roll-out projects, enhancement projects, and helpdesk tickets to ensure process, data, reports and methodology compliance.
- Partner with other Regional PTP teams, GPOs, SMEs, and regional financial and IT organizations to both maintain and drive the integrity of the GLPT.

**GLPT deployments**
- Lead on-site manufacturing functional teams (Internal SAP Team, 3rd party consultants, Gates IT and Gates internal business) in the implementation of the Gates GLPT across the EMEA sites, plants and business locations.
- Manage mixed team of internal IT, business resources and consulting partner resources responsible for delivering GLPT and on-going support.

**Note: This description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities.**

**KEYS TO SUCCESS**:

- Experienced partnering with business leaders to develop and drive global initiatives. Able to establish credibility and build support for manufacturing solutions across various functional teams and business stakeholders. Manages interactions with stakeholders to stay within project constraints/scope. The Manufacturing community includes:

- Regional VPs of Ops
- Plant managers
- Central Planning
- Schedulers
- Quality Managers
- High Level interpersonal and leadership skills; must be able to influence and coach across multiple levels within the company and locations; including establishing global partnerships.
- Ability to recruit and develop an effective and capable team.
- Flexible and adaptable to fast paced, evolving environment.
- Solution oriented and demonstrates agility and resourcefulness in identifying creative and practical solutions.
- Effectively communicate across all levels of the organization including technical and non-technical people both verbally and in writing. Represents company interests with outside customers and vendors in a professional and articulate manner.
- Ability to work on multiple projects at once, prioritizing tasks and deliverables, and managing expectations accordingly.
- Courage and ability to influence and make hard decisions.
- Passion and sense of urgency to listen & proactively attend to clients' needs.

**YOUR QUALIFICATIONS**:
- This position will require exten