Program Director - SAP Extended Spare Parts Planning and Scheduling

Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Deep expertise in SAP S/4HANA with strong functional leadership in eSPP and adjacent order fulfillment / service parts planning capabilities
• Strong domain experience in Aerospace & Defense (A&D) Aftermarket, including:
• Service parts planning
• Spare parts replenishment
• Depot / repair-driven demand
• MRO and aftermarket fulfillment models
• Proven experience designing and leading end-to-end service parts planning processes across:
• Demand planning
• Inventory planning
• Supply planning
• Distribution and replenishment planning
• Expertise in integrating eSPP with SAP S/4HANA and surrounding supply chain platforms including:
• SD
• MM / IM
• PP
• EWM
• IBP / APO / planning ecosystems where applicable
• Strong understanding of A&D aftermarket challenges, including:
• Intermittent demand
• Critical spare availability
• High service-level expectations
• Serialized / traceable inventory
• Multi-echelon stocking strategies
• Experience in global supply chain transformation programs and service-logistics operating model design
• Ability to define planning strategies for:
• Slow-moving and critical spares
• Repair loop planning
• Rotables management
• Supersession / interchangeability scenarios
• Strong knowledge of KPI-driven fulfillment and planning outcomes such as:
• Fill rate
• OTIF
• Backorder reduction
• Inventory turns
• Working capital optimization
• Experience working with CxO and senior business stakeholders in large-scale SAP transformation engagements
• Excellent communication, governance, and cross-functional leadership skills

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Lead the functional vision and transformation roadmap for SAP S/4HANA eSPP in an A&D Aftermarket environment
• Define and govern the target planning operating model for service parts and aftermarket supply chain
• Partner with client business leadership to improve service levels, optimize inventory, and enable resilient spare parts planning capabilities

Solution Design

• Direct functional solution design for service parts planning and replenishment across global distribution and aftermarket networks
• Design planning processes for:
• Critical spare forecasting
• Stocking policy optimization
• Multi-location replenishment
• Service-level based planning
• Repair-driven and intermittent demand scenarios
• Ensure integration across S/4HANA processes, warehousing, logistics, and planning layers

Program Delivery

• Lead large cross-functional teams across business, IT, and system integration streams
• Drive design governance, solution quality, fit-gap closure, and executive decision making
• Establish roadmap, milestones, issue resolution mechanisms, and delivery controls for successful implementation
• Ensure program predictability, timeline adherence, and value realization across the service parts transformation initiative

Business Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to supply chain, operations, aftermarket, and digital leadership teams
• Facilitate workshops, steering reviews, design forums, and executive governance meetings
• Translate business priorities into scalable SAP-enabled planning capabilities

Value Realization

• Drive measurable outcomes such as:
• Improved spare parts availability
• Reduced backorders
• Improved forecast and replenishment accuracy
• Lower excess / obsolete inventory
• Improved working capital efficiency
• Support KPI framework development and executive reporting for transformation value tracking

Transformation & Innovation

• Identify opportunities to modernize aftermarket planning capabilities with analytics, automation, and intelligent planning approaches
• Drive evolution from legacy planning practices toward digitally enabled service-parts planning and supply orchestration

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Strong executive presence and leadership maturity
• Proven ability to lead large global teams across business and technology functions
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and negotiation skills
• Strong governance, decision-making, and escalation management capabilities
• Ability to influence senior client leaders and align cross-functional teams under a common vision
• Mentoring and people development capability for functional leads and consulting teams
• Strong commercial awareness and transformation mindset