IT&D Senior Manager SAP Maufacturing & PM

Reckitt · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Full-time · Staff · Posted 19 days ago

WE ARE RECKITT

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition
brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the
relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by
this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality
hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DIGITAL

In IT and D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber
security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our
business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved
products.

Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from
start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be
done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the
support and investment to make them happen.

Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take
your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to
learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with
real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from
Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new
approaches.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The IT&D Senior Manager – SAP Manufacturing & Plant Maintenance is responsible
for providing strategic leadership, solution governance, and operational
excellence across SAP Manufacturing (PP, PP PI, QM) and Plant Maintenance (PM)
domains. This role drives manufacturing digitalization, operational efficiency,
and system stability across global plants.  Collaborate closely with Supply
Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, and Global Process Owners to deliver
a robust, standardized, and future-ready SAP landscape that enables
high-performance manufacturing operations.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Own the SAP Manufacturing & Plant maintenance modules roadmap aligned with
global supply chain, operations, and engineering strategies. 
•    Provide expert guidance across SAP PP, PP PI, PM, QM, MII/MES integrations,
and digital shop floor solutions. 
•    Ensure global template integrity, standardization, and harmonized
manufacturing processes across plants and regions. 
•    Partner with operation excellence teams to define digital capabilities such
as predictive maintenance, IoT, production visibility, and shop-floor automation
•    Lead the end to end design, build, integration, and deployment of SAP
solutions supporting production planning, execution, quality, maintenance, and
manufacturing performance management. 
•    Design scalable manufacturing and PM solutions integrated with procurement,
inventory, cost controlling, and scheduling. 
•    Serve as the final solution authority for changes impacting SAP
Manufacturing & PM domains. 
•    Enable capabilities such as capacity planning, MRP, batch management,
serialization, calibration, inspections, and digital work instructions. 
•    Govern SAP integration with MES/MII, automation systems, sensors, and
connected factory technologies.
•    Lead large-scale SAP transformation initiatives including S/4HANA
migration, template rollouts, MES integration, and manufacturing modernization
programs. 
•    Develop project scope, plans, estimates, resource models, and delivery
timelines. 
•    Ensure high quality execution by internal teams, system integrators, and
managed service providers.
•    Ensure stable operations of SAP Manufacturing & PM applications with high
availability and performance. 
•    Lead incident, problem, and change management processes and continuously
improve support KPIs and SLAs. 
•    Manage root-cause analysis and long-term fixes for recurring manufacturing
and PM system issues. 
•    Support critical production cycles such as shop-floor scheduling, month-end
production settlement, material costing, and PM compliance audits.
•    Strengthen master data governance for BOMs, routings, work centers,
maintenance plans, and task lists. 
•    Maintain compliance for calibration, equipment qualification, maintenance
logs, and quality records.
•    Drive adoption of digital manufacturing technologies such as IoT-based
maintenance, predictive analytics, OEE systems, and digital twins. 
•    Identify opportunities to optimize production efficiency, reduce downtime,
and enhance asset reliability. 
•    Promote automation and data-driven decision-making across operations
•    Act as a trusted partner to Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, and Supply
Chain business leaders. 
•    Manage global partners, SI vendors, and MSPs to ensure compliant,
high-quality delivery. 
•    Maintain strong business communication and alignment across plants and
regions.

THE EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

12–18+ years of SAP experience with strong functional depth in Manufacturing
(PP/PP PI), Plant Maintenance (PM), and Quality Management (QM). 
•    Proven experience delivering large-scale SAP transformations, including
S/4HANA Manufacturing & PM implementations or migrations. 
•    Strong understanding of end to end manufacturing processes: planning,
material staging, execution, quality, maintenance, and cost settlement. 
•    Experience with MES/MII, shop-floor automation, IoT integration, predictive
maintenance, and equipment lifecycle management. 
•    Strong knowledge of manufacturing KPIs, asset utilization, OEE, maintenance
workflows, and compliance processes. 
•    Experience working in global operations with multiple plants and
cross-cultural teams. 
•    Demonstrated ability to manage vendors, MSPs, multi-million-dollar budgets,
and global delivery teams. 
•    Strong communication, leadership, problem-solving, and stakeholder
management skills. 
•    Ability to travel globally (5–20%)

THE SKILLS FOR SUCCESS

Product Development, system development, Project Management, Programme
Management, Design Thinking, Process Automisation, IT Service Management,
Innovation Processes, Innovation, User Experience Design, Change Analyst, Change
Management, Digital Transformation, Value Analysis, Change Management, Adoption,
Technology Adoption Lifecycle, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Vendor
Management, Outstanding Communication, stakeholder engagement, Digital Strategy,
Product Solution Architecture, Cyber Security Strategy, Cyber Security, Data
Privacy, Portfolio Management, Data Governance, Product Compliance, Media
Analytics, advertising, Consumer Engagement, Market Value, Market Chain, Data
Driven Practices, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Governance.

WHAT WE OFFER

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four
global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their
career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest
in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance
Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally.
We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our
global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's
potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term
incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering
outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for
performance philosophy.

EQUALITY

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'.
That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet
every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a
good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or
medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin;
religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual
orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity;
protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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