Job Description

Manager – SAP Manufacturing Functional Consultant

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of the company IT operating model, Tech centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each tech center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview:

As part of the EIT SCM Make Team, the SAP Manufacturing Functional consultant plays a critical role in delivering global SAP enhancements within the Production Execution workstream and ensuring seamless integration across key business processes, including Material Handling, Environmental Health & Safety, Quality Management, and more. This role supports our global network (NA, EU, APAC, and LA) and oversees the full project lifecycle—from scoping and gap analysis to solution design, testing, documentation, deployment to production, and hyper care.

What will you do in this role:

• Operate as part of an international SCM team of SAP experts, supporting NA, EU, APAC, and LA.
• Own SAP changes within the Production Execution workstream and ensure integration with adjacent processes (Material Handling, Environmental Health & Safety, Quality Management).
• Lead end-to-end delivery for enhancements and projects: scope definition, fit-gap/requirements analysis, solution and configuration design, testing, documentation, transition to production, and hyper care.
• Provide operational support to live markets, delivering continuous improvements across relevant SAP functional areas.
• Drive change management in partnership with technical teams (ABAP, Basis, Security, BTP-IS Integration), ensuring compliance with governance, release, and change control processes.
• Design, test, and troubleshoot integrations with third-party systems (e.g., MES and Automated Warehouse solutions), aligned to the relevant SAP modules.
• Execute rollout projects to extend the global SAP template into new markets and manufacturing sites.
• Create, review, and approve functional specifications, user requirements, and formal test scripts/results.
• Influence and collaborate across a global, matrixed organization to realize key objectives, coordinating with with multiple business units.
• Coordinate effectively with outsourced support vendors and cross-functional teams.
• Manage stakeholder expectations; translate business needs into SAP enhancements and project deliverables.
• Communicate status transparently, highlighting risks, issues, and design decisions; ensure ownership, tracking, and mitigation plans are in place.

What you will bring:

• Industry domain knowledge
  • Prior experience in manufacturing and end-to-end process knowledge within Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, or FMCG
  • Required: knowledge with SDLC practices specific to the pharmaceutical industry (validation, change control, documentation)
• SAP manufacturing expertise
  • 5+ years of hands-on functional and technical experience in SAP Manufacturing, preferably PP-PI (Process Industries)
  • Hands-on experience with PP-PI execution tools: PI Sheets / XSteps, including design, configuration, and deployment on the shop floor
  • Bonus: exposure to other modules such as WM/EWM, QM, and MM
• Integrations and shop-floor systems
  • Proven experience integrating SAP with third-party MES or other shop-floor systems
  • Knowledge of SAP communication and integration protocols used for system-to-system connectivity: IDoc, RFC, and Proxy (SOAP/HTTP, PI/PO/AIF)
  • Advantage: familiarity with Körber PAS-X
• SDLC, change management and delivery tools
  • Strong knowledge of SDLC processes, ideally within regulated (pharmaceutical) environments, including validation, change control, and documentation
  • Hands-on experience with delivery and lifecycle tools: JIRA (work management, backlog, sprint boards), Xray or HP ALM (test management process)
• Communication and collaboration
  • Strong English communication skills, with the ability to engage directly with business users and stakeholders
  • Team-oriented with effective interpersonal skills to collaborate across cross-functional and global teams
• Problem solving and delivery
  • Strong analytical problem-solving skills and high attention to detail
  • Proactive mindset to anticipate and mitigate issues before escalation
  • Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple priorities

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for lives, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

01/24/2026

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