SAP ERP Manager - VDS Consulting Group

SAP ERP Manager

Location: Long Island, NY

Department: Information Technology

Compensation: $160,000 - $180,000 base salary, plus comprehensive benefits

Search type: Confidential retained search. Client identity is shared with qualified candidates.

About the Company

Our client is an established global manufacturer of high-performance RF and microwave components, modules and subsystems. With engineering, sales and manufacturing operations around the world and a broad international customer base, the company's products are built into systems across telecommunications, aerospace and defense, automotive, medical, scientific and industrial test and measurement markets.

The Opportunity

The company is looking for a hands-on SAP leader to own its ERP landscape across global discrete manufacturing operations. You will set the SAP roadmap, lead a global team of functional and technical consultants, and partner with operations, supply chain and finance leaders to make the business faster, more scalable and more efficient. This is a high-visibility role with a direct line to senior leadership and real influence over the company's digital transformation.

What You'll Do

Strategy and Leadership

• Build and execute an SAP roadmap tied to business and manufacturing goals.
• Lead a global SAP team of functional and technical consultants through project delivery and ongoing support.
• Work with senior leadership to identify process improvement and digital transformation opportunities.

Implementation and Optimization

• Oversee implementation of core modules supporting discrete manufacturing, including PP, MM, SD, WM, QM and FI/CO.
• Drive clean integration between SAP and surrounding enterprise systems such as MES, PLM and CRM.
• Continuously tune configurations to raise manufacturing efficiency, lower cost and improve data accuracy.

Business Process Alignment

• Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, finance and IT to turn business requirements into SAP solutions.
• Standardize global manufacturing processes around SAP best practices.
• Keep systems and processes aligned with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Project Management

• Run SAP projects end to end, owning plans, budgets, resourcing and risk.
• Deliver on time, on scope and on budget, with regular progress reporting to stakeholders.

Support and Training

• Lead the SAP support function: issue resolution, root cause analysis and prevention.
• Build and deliver end-user training programs.
• Maintain system documentation and ensure knowledge transfer across the team.

Vendor and Stakeholder Management

• Manage relationships with SAP, implementation partners and other third-party providers.
• Keep SAP processes and systems consistent across global sites.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration or a related field; master's degree preferred.
• 8-10+ years of SAP ERP implementation and management experience, including at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Background in discrete manufacturing, ideally high-tech or electronics.
• Strong working knowledge of PP, MM, SD, WM, QM and FI/CO.
• SAP S/4HANA experience strongly preferred.
• Experience leading global projects with cross-cultural teams.
• Solid grasp of manufacturing processes, supply chain management and financial operations.
• Fluency in Agile, Scrum and Waterfall delivery and the tools that support them.
• Excellent communication skills with stakeholders at every level, from the shop floor to the executive suite.
• Ability to juggle competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have: SAP certification in relevant modules; PMP or equivalent project management certification.

You'll Thrive Here If You

• Bring real energy and enthusiasm to your work.
• Hold yourself to a high quality bar and keep looking for ways to improve.
• Make sound, business-minded decisions.
• Put internal and external customers first.
• Own your results and your commitments.
• Move with urgency without losing sight of the details.
• Collaborate openly toward shared goals.
• Lead with honesty, integrity and respect.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401(k) and profit-sharing programs
• Paid time off
• Disability and life insurance
• Hospital and accident indemnity insurance
• Wellness programs, commuter benefits, benefits advocate and employee assistance program

Qualifications listed are guidelines; the client may consider candidates outside them. Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.