SAP PP & QM (Production Planning & Quality Management) Expert

📍 Remote – Poland | 💼 Long-term B2B cooperation | 🌍 Global S/4HANA Project
💶 Up to €6 500/month (B2B)

Our client is a leading global company in the agricultural sector, providing innovative crop protection solutions that help farmers combat weeds, insects, and diseases.
With advanced R&D, manufacturing, and formulation capabilities — and the world’s most extensive portfolio of active ingredients — the company delivers tailored solutions to meet local farming needs across the globe.

We are recruiting a Service Matter Expert (SME) for Production Planning (PP) and Quality Management (QM) to join the global Center of Excellence (CoE) team driving a large-scale S/4HANA transformation.
This is a full-time, long-term B2B role, available remotely from Poland.

As a PP & QM SME, you will own and manage the Global Template (GT) for the Production Planning and Quality Management areas. You will design, configure, test, and continuously improve SAP PP and QM modules to support global manufacturing and quality processes while maintaining alignment with the company’s business process standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Safeguard and evolve the Global Template (GT) for PP and QM, minimizing deviations from the established Business Process Documents (BPDs).
• Ensure all BPDs are kept current with approved updates.
• Manage change requests, critical incidents, and enhancement initiatives for PP and QM streams.
• Support and share knowledge with local level-1 support teams.
• Analyze business process requirements and configure SAP PP and QM to meet global standards.
• Lead or contribute to projects introducing new functionalities or optimizing existing processes.
• Collaborate with global cross-functional, development, and technical teams to coordinate and implement solutions.

• Create detailed functional design documents and ensure proper communication to technical build teams.
• Identify potential system limitations, suggest workarounds, and design efficient process solutions.
• Facilitate workshops to gather business requirements, define objectives, and align global rollouts.
• Critically review solution designs to ensure optimization, simplicity, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with regional and local teams on the adoption and integration of globally recommended solutions.
• Ensure on-time delivery of project milestones and compliance with PMO governance for PP and QM streams.
• Track and report progress within the project governance framework.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on SAP functional experience in PP and QM modules, including at least one full-cycle implementation.
• Deep understanding of core manufacturing and quality business processes.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into SAP configuration and technical specifications.
• Experience preparing functional documentation, test cases, and results.
• Strong technical knowledge of SAP, including understanding of development concepts, dictionary objects, and customer enhancements.
• Basic knowledge of ABAP and debugging.
• Experience integrating SAP with external systems and managing end-to-end solution architecture.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate across global teams.
• Fluent English (spoken and written).

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience working in a global team or governance-based environment.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA projects.

What’s Offered

✔ B2B cooperation with Optiveum, a Poland-based IT recruitment & outsourcing company
✔ Monthly rate up to €6 500 (B2B)
✔ Long-term collaboration with a global enterprise
✔ 100% remote work from Poland
✔ On-time invoice payments
✔ Collaborative, innovation-driven environment
✔ Continuous learning and professional development opportunities
✔ Real business impact in a global SAP program