SAP - Product Lifecycle Management - PLM - Manager - Consulting - Location OPEN

EY is a globally connected professional services organization that helps clients improve performance through consulting, technology, and SAP solutions. The SAP Product Lifecycle Management Manager will lead complex SAP PLM transformation initiatives, advising senior stakeholders and overseeing the design, implementation, integration, and optimization of product lifecycle solutions across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and IT functions.

Responsibilities:

• Own the SAP PLM roadmap and translate business priorities into a clear portfolio of process, data, integration, and technology initiatives
• Lead end-to-end delivery across discovery, requirements, fit-to-standard design, configuration, development, testing, data migration, cutover, deployment, hypercare, and ongoing optimization
• Design and govern PLM processes, including material and product master data, document management, bills of materials, classifications, specifications, engineering records, engineering change management, product structures, recipes, and new product introduction
• Facilitate workshops with business and technical stakeholders to document current-state processes, define future-state capabilities, resolve design decisions, and secure approvals
• Lead the design and delivery of the PTC Windchill and SAP S/4HANA interface, including integration architecture, data mapping, transformation rules, validation, error handling, monitoring, security, reconciliation, and support procedures for parts and materials, EBOMs and MBOMs, documents and drawings, revisions, effectivity, engineering changes, routings, and release statuses
• Coordinate with engineering, manufacturing, master data, integration, and security teams to establish system-of-record ownership, field-level mappings, synchronization rules, interface controls, and end-to-end release and change-management workflows between Windchill and SAP
• Lead interface testing and operational readiness, including unit testing, system integration testing, regression testing, performance testing, cutover rehearsals, reconciliation, exception resolution, and production monitoring
• Lead Engineering Change Management (ECM) processes across PTC Windchill and SAP S/4HANA, including Engineering Change Requests (ECRs), Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), impact analysis, workflow approvals, change numbers, revision control, effectivity dates, release status, audit traceability, and coordinated implementation of changes to materials, BOMs, routings, documents, and production master data
• Manage functional consultants, developers, data resources, testing teams, system integrators, and third-party vendors; establish priorities, monitor deliverables, and support team development
• Maintain solution quality through architecture reviews, design standards, clean-core principles, configuration governance, documentation, controls, and release management
• Oversee testing strategy, defect management, data validation, cutover readiness, business continuity, and post-go-live stabilization
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, scope changes, and resource constraints; provide clear status reporting and recommendations to program leadership
• Partner with change management and training teams to drive stakeholder engagement, user readiness, adoption, and measurable business outcomes
• Support production operations by establishing incident, problem, enhancement, and service-management processes and by monitoring solution performance
• Evaluate SAP innovations and product roadmaps, recommending capabilities that improve time-to-market, product quality, compliance, traceability, and engineering productivity

Requirements:

• • A bachelor's degree (4-year degree)
• • Typically, no less than 4-6 years of experience delivering SAP-enabled product lifecycle, engineering, and manufacturing transformation initiatives in complex enterprise environments
• • At least 3 years of experience with SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or SAP S/4 HANA, including SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• • A proven track record of leading teams to delivery project deliverable within critical deadlines
• • Experience managing an SAP project or workstream and project-based team members in the manufacturing space
• • Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills
• • Insight into best practices, benchmarking, peer company environments, and previous advisory roles pertinent to industry-specific production, quality management, and technology functions
• • A flexibility and willingness to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 40-60%
• • Consulting experience with a focus on leading SAP transformation projects and cross-functional delivery teams
• • SAP certifications in SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), SAP Enterprise Product Development (EPD), or related product development and engineering solutions
• • Experience with SAP PLM capabilities, including Document Management System (DMS), Engineering Change Management, Classification, Bill of Materials management, variant configuration, product structures, and product data governance
• • Experience integrating SAP PLM processes with engineering, manufacturing, quality management, procurement, supply chain, and external product development systems
• • Experience with at least three full-cycle implementations of SAP PLM or related product development solutions in SAP S/4HANA environments
• • Experience with SAP's product innovation and engineering solutions, such as SAP Enterprise Product Development, Product Engineering and Operations, Product Compliance, Specification Management, and Recipe Development, as applicable
• • Experience defining product lifecycle strategies, future-state processes, solution architecture, and implementation roadmaps for complex product development environments
• • Experience managing client relationships, stakeholder expectations, project risks, delivery milestones, and cross-functional teams