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IT&D Senior Manager SAP Maufacturing & PM

City: Hyderabad

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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