Inhouse Consultant SAP

Main responsibilities and tasks:

The SAP MM Consultant / Solution Architect provides end-to-end functional and solution architecture leadership for SAP Materials Management and its integration with manufacturing, planning, quality, logistics, finance and external applications. The role combines deep SAP MM expertise, manufacturing-process knowledge, cloud and BTP architecture, migration and change leadership, and strong stakeholder engagement to deliver scalable, secure and business-aligned solutions.

• Own SAP MM solution design across source-to-pay and inventory-management processes, including requisitioning, purchasing, contracts, source determination, goods movements, inventory, valuation, invoice integration, subcontracting, consignment and stock transfers.
• Apply strong manufacturing business-process knowledge and translate business requirements into standard, sustainable SAP solutions.
• Provide strong SAP PP and QM process and integration knowledge, including material planning, production execution, inspection processing, quality notifications and inventory movements.
• Govern integration between SAP MM and Finance, Sales, Production Planning, Quality Management, Warehouse, Plant Maintenance and other relevant SAP processes.
• Design and govern integration with third-party applications using appropriate APIs, middleware, events, files and integration patterns.
• Own relevant SAP landscape architecture, including applications, environments, interfaces, data flows, security, availability, performance and lifecycle dependencies.
• Guide SAP Business Technology Platform adoption for integration, extension, workflow, data and analytics use cases aligned with enterprise standards and clean-core principles.
• Identify practical AI opportunities in procurement, inventory, planning and quality processes and ensure secure, responsible and value-driven adoption.
• Lead or support SAP implementations in Public Cloud and/or Private Cloud environments and contribute to fit-to-standard decisions.
• Plan and govern migration activities, including scope, data readiness, mapping, cleansing, testing, cutover, reconciliation, hypercare and operational handover.
• Provide strong MRP knowledge, including material-master parameters, demand and supply elements, planning runs, procurement proposals, exceptions and integration with purchasing and production.
• Apply structured change management covering stakeholder alignment, communication, training, adoption, business readiness and resistance management.
• Apply ITIL practices across incident, problem, change, release, service-level and continual-improvement processes.
• Understand hyperscaler concepts relevant to SAP, including connectivity, security, resilience, monitoring, scalability and cost awareness.
• Provide functional leadership and coaching to SAP team members and partners; coordinate priorities, quality, risks, knowledge transfer and delivery commitments.
• Build trusted relationships with business process owners, key users, Group IT, Enterprise Architecture, vendors and senior stakeholders.
• Prepare clear architecture documents, process flows, decision papers, roadmaps, business cases, status reports and executive-quality PowerPoint presentations.
• Apply strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills to identify root causes, evaluate options, assess risks and drive topics to closure.

Education, Experience and Languages:

• B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related discipline.
• 10-11 years of relevant SAP experience, with deep SAP MM expertise and substantial responsibility in solution design, implementation and functional leadership.
• Strong manufacturing business-process knowledge and SAP MM module-wise business-process expertise.
• Strong SAP PP and QM process and integration knowledge.
• Demonstrated experience with third-party integrations, SAP landscapes, BTP, migration, MRP, change management and AI-enabled opportunities.
• Experience working on at least two to three SAP implementations in ECC and Public Cloud and/or Private Cloud model.
• Practical understanding of at least one hyperscaler environment and its relevance to SAP workloads.
• ITIL certification and demonstrated application of service-management principles.
• Proven team-management and stakeholder-management experience.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication, analytical thinking and PowerPoint storytelling skills.
• PMP certification or equivalent formal project-management credential.
• SAP Activate Methodology certification.
• Relevant SAP MM, S/4HANA, BTP, cloud architecture or hyperscaler certification.
• Experience with S/4HANA transformation, RISE with SAP, clean-core principles and application rationalization.
• A proactive, accountable, hands-on go-getter mindset with strong ownership and delivery orientation.

Burckhardt Compression creates leading compression solutions for a sustainable energy future and the long-term success of its customers. The Group is the only global manufacturer that covers a full range of reciprocating compressor technologies and services. Since 1844, its passionate, customer-oriented and solution-driven workforce has set the benchmark in the gas compression industry.