SAP Plant Setup & Deployment Project Lead

Job ID: 73189
Location: Dearborn, Michigan
Category: Enterprise Technology

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Job Type: Full time
Work Type: Hybrid

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Do you believe reliable enterprise systems and disciplined delivery are essential to launching and expanding business operations? Establishing a plant in SAP requires coordinated configuration across Purchasing and Finance, careful management of dependencies, and close collaboration among product teams. That’s where this role makes an impact.

We are seeking an SAP Plant Setup & Deployment Project Lead to lead the enterprise-structure configuration and deployment activities needed to establish new or expanded plants in SAP S/4HANA. You’ll connect Purchasing (MM) and Finance (FI/CO) workstreams, coordinating requirements, configuration, validation, and deployment across areas such as Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Intercompany, Vehicle Accounting, and Reporting.

This role combines hands-on SAP configuration with project leadership. You’ll coordinate cross-functional teams, manage plans and dependencies using Jira and Agile practices, and support project governance, change control, cutover, and go-live activities.

SAP Plant Setup & Configuration

Configure SAP S/4HANA enterprise-structure elements, including Plants, Purchasing Organizations, and Storage Locations.
Maintain assignments between plants and relevant organizational units, including Company Codes and Sales Organizations.
Perform plant-related Purchasing configuration, including Purchasing Organization assignments and plant-specific procurement settings.
Coordinate vendor master extension activities related to plant setup.
Gather plant-specific requirements from product teams before configuration begins.
Complete configuration accurately and on schedule so product teams can proceed with validation and testing.
Hand off completed configuration to product teams with clear documentation and support their testing and sign-off.
Troubleshoot configuration issues identified during validation and testing.

Finance Workstream Coordination

Coordinate plant-related Finance configuration across relevant product areas, including:
Accounts Payable: Support plant-level requirements for vendor invoice and payment processing.
General Ledger: Coordinate valuation-area and account-determination setup.
Intercompany: Enable cross-plant and cross-company-code transaction processing.
Vehicle Accounting: Support plant-level vehicle inventory valuation and related accounting structures.
Reporting: Ensure plant setup supports downstream financial and management reporting.
Coordinate activities and dependencies across Finance and Purchasing product teams.
Track decisions, risks, issues, and handoffs to support complete and consistent plant deployment.

Project & Program Management

Develop and manage plant setup plans, milestones, dependencies, and timelines across parallel workstreams.
Use Jira to maintain project backlogs, track issues and dependencies, support sprint planning, and communicate delivery progress.
Apply Agile practices to coordinate cross-functional teams, manage sprint commitments, and address delivery impediments.
Lead collaboration among SAP product teams, business stakeholders, technical teams, and deployment partners.
Coordinate change-management activities, including impact assessment, approvals, stakeholder communication, and implementation tracking.
Support cutover and go-live planning, including transport coordination and sequencing configuration across dependent products.

Governance, Documentation & Continuous Improvement

Support project governance through status reporting, steering committee updates, RAID logs, and change-control processes.
Maintain configuration documentation, plant setup checklists, project trackers, and delivery records across involved product areas.
Ensure configuration decisions, dependencies, risks, and handoffs are documented and communicated.
Identify opportunities to improve plant setup, deployment, and governance processes.

We recognize that no one person will embody every quality or skill listed below. If you have hands-on SAP configuration experience and enjoy coordinating complex, cross-functional deployments, we encourage you to apply.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.

Experience

5 – 8+ years of SAP configuration experience, including hands-on experience setting up Plants and related enterprise-structure elements in SAP S/4HANA.
Experience supporting a plant rollout or expansion involving multiple Finance and Purchasing product teams.
Working knowledge of Purchasing (MM) and Finance (FI/CO) configuration related to plant setup.
Experience coordinating delivery across multiple functional teams, such as Accounts Payable, General Ledger, Intercompany, Vehicle Accounting, and Reporting.
SAP project-management experience, including timeline and dependency management, status reporting, and cross-functional coordination.
Experience using Jira for Agile project tracking, sprint planning, and issue management.
Experience supporting project governance, including status reports, steering committee updates, RAID logs, and change-management processes.
Strong communication, organization, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Required Technical Experience

Demonstrated experience configuring Plants, Company Codes, Purchasing Organizations, and Storage Locations and maintaining their assignments.
Working knowledge of plant-related Purchasing (MM) and Finance (FI/CO) configuration, including valuation areas, account determination, and Purchasing Organization assignments.
Familiarity with configuration activities such as OX10, OX18, OX17, and OX09.
Familiarity with SAP transport management and cutover coordination.
Ability to coordinate configuration, validation, testing, and handoff across dependent product teams.

Preferred Experience

SAP S/4HANA certification in MM or FI.
Exposure to Vehicle Accounting or automotive OEM and dealer financial structures.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:

Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here: Benefit Summary

This position is a salary grade 7 or 8.

This position is a salary grade 7 or 8 and ranges from $86,600-$166,200.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

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