SAP Production Planning(PP) / Manufacturing Functional, Amazon Leo

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement:

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Our team focuses on building Enterprise Application systems for manufacturing satellites. Your customers are Manufacturing, Operations and the Supply Chain teams at Kuiper.

As the SAP Manufacturing Functional Lead, you will serve as the functional expert for SAP Production Planning (PP), designing scalable, business-driven solutions that support manufacturing operations across the enterprise. You will lead the analysis, design, enhancement, implementation, and ongoing support of SAP manufacturing capabilities while ensuring alignment with SAP best practices and Clean Core principles.

You will work closely with Product Managers, SAP functional and Technical teams, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), and business stakeholders to deliver integrated end-to-end manufacturing solutions. The enhancement and support of these systems is critical to scalability and cost-effective manufacturing of satellites and ground gateway terminals. To be successful you need to be highly motivated, detail oriented and effective communicator.

Key job responsibilities

• Build product vision and solutions in SAP PP / Manufacturing areas
• Ability to identify and implement best practices to optimize business processes using SAP and championing for utility/intuitiveness/simplicity of process/product while ensuring alignment to Clean Core principles
• Conduct Blueprint workshops, fit-gap analysis and produce detailed design documents reasoning from core needs, reasoning from core needs, challenging assumptions
• Participate in strategic planning, roadmap discussions for SAP PP solutions including contributions to Amazon 1yr-3yr annual planning
• Manage quarter planning, sprint planning, deployment for product feature enhancements bringing in business value, business impact and reasoning.
• Manage the product backlog, ensuring backlog items are fully defined, solution-ready, and approved before development starts, resulting in low solution churn.
• Prepare product design, functional specifications, configure, test and support implementation for all SAP RICEFW areas
• Build and support integration with cross-workstream processes - SAP EWM, QM, MM, SAP MES and PLM system
• Identify change management and training needs, support creating training documentation and lead train the trainer sessions for Product changes
• Delivered solutions improve manufacturing efficiency, inventory accuracy, quality, and production visibility.
• Defining critical metrics including - success metrics, product adoption, data driven insights into product improvement
• Team player, ready to share and contribute to collective success of the team" (edited)

A day in the life

Collaborate with functional owners, architects and developers to build dynamic and flexible systems to meet the emerging demands of internal customers in manufacturing. Support production system for Support tickets , bug fixes and identifying optimization opportunities to enhance overall process and system performance. As the SAP Manufacturing functional expert, you will partner with business stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable, integrated SAP manufacturing solutions. You will lead the functional design, configuration, and support of SAP Production Planning (PP) while collaborating closely with SAP EWM, MES, MM, PLM and other enterprise application teams to deliver end-to-end manufacturing capabilities that align with business objectives, SAP best practices, and Clean Core principles.