SAP EWM Lead Consultant

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Job Title: Lead Consultant – SAP Extended Warehouse Management GCL : E Introduction to role: Are you ready to lead enterprise-scale SAP EWM solutions that strengthen our global supply chain and help deliver medicines to patients faster and more reliably? This is a hands-on leadership role where your decisions on design, data, and deployment will directly improve how life-changing therapies move from production to patients. You will join a high-velocity technology organization that is scaling digital capabilities across the enterprise. Working with multi-functional partners, you will own the EWM agenda end to end—from shaping solution architecture through steady-state optimization—so warehouses run with precision, compliance is built into every move, and cycle times continually shrink. Can you envision yourself setting the standard for EWM design while coaching a team to deliver repeatable, high-quality outcomes? Accountabilities: • EWM Solution Leadership: Own the vision and roadmap for SAP EWM across sites, translating business goals into scalable, compliant designs that improve throughput and inventory accuracy. • End-to-End Delivery Ownership: Lead design, configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare for EWM in S/4HANA, ensuring measurable value such as reduced picking time, higher order accuracy, and faster goods' receipt. • Agile Program Execution: Drive Agile delivery across multiple EWM workstreams, managing backlogs, prioritizing outcomes, and meeting demanding timelines without compromising quality. • Integration Leadership: Orchestrate seamless integration with MM, PP, QM, SD, and TM, ensuring data consistency and robust end-to-end process execution from production staging to shipment. • Data Migration and Quality: Plan and implement data migration using SAP S/4HANA Migration Cockpit, ensuring master and transactional data integrity, controllership, and audit readiness. • Team Leadership and Coaching: Guide a team of EWM consultants, setting standards for design and documentation, reviewing configurations, and growing capability through structured coaching and feedback. • Automation and AI Enablement: Identify and implement productivity gains in EWM processes using automation and AI tools, demonstrating tangible improvements in cycle time, manual effort, and right-first-time metrics. • Operational Excellence and Shift Coverage: Provide leadership and decision support across shift patterns and flexible schedules to maintain 24x7 continuity and rapid incident resolution. • Stake-holder Engagement: Facilitate workshops, capture requirements, and simplify complex trade-offs for business and technology stake-holders to drive alignment and adoption. • Compliance and Continuous Improvement: Embed quality and validation needs into designs, and iterate using data and metrics to continually optimize warehouse flows and inventory management. Essential Skills/Experience: • More than 12+ years of SAP EWM consulting Experience • Expertise in the respective business domain on SAP EWM with S/4 HANA. • SAP EWM implementation / roll-out experience from design to completion of deployment • Experience on Decentralised EWM Implementation is mandatory • Should have led a technical team of more than 5 EWM members. Should guide the team to deliver full EWM solutions through Agile implementation. • Hands on experience and knowledge on SAP Extended Warehouse management and its integration with MM, PP, QM, SD and TM. • Keeping the track record of delivering SAP configuration design • Certification in SAP S/4HANA Extended Warehouse management (EWM) is mandatory • Able to identify ways to improve efficiency by changing work methods through new automation solutions. These use AI tools like Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and others within EWM operations. • Required Excellent process knowledge of EWM processes like Inbound, Outbound, Internal warehouse movements, Production staging, physical inventory etc. • Should have hands-on experience in setting up warehouses set up with POSC, LOSC, WOCR, Wave picking, PPF etc. • Experience of Pharmaceutical supply chain business activities and the required business outcomes within the relevant capability area • Must have sound knowledge and experience in configuring/modifying Post Processing Framework in SAP EWM. • Experience in creation of Master Data i.e. Packaging Specifications, Warehouse Interpersonal Structure, Settings for Handling Units etc. • Able to work across the program team and connect with business stake-holders and IT teams • Comfortable with ambiguity and possessing an agile and open attitude • Keeps self, up to date on the latest S/4 technologies and functionalities • Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as driving the team of Senior Consultants as a Team • Good communication and presentation skills, ability to notice and address details • Self-motivated, demonstrated personal credibility and positive energy • Able to deliver large work efforts and meet exciting deadlines • Able to think out of the box, thrive in ambiguous and stressful situations. • Education Background – Engineering Graduate or Postgraduate from a reputed University Desirable Skills/Experience: • Experience working with SAP MM, SAP TM, and SAP ABAP Debugging • Involved in 2 full life cycle S/4HANA greenfield Implementation of Decentralised EWM. • Experience in SAP Mobile Technologies Implementations using: SAP Console/ITS Mobile/IOS app/ RFID for Radio Frequency Framework Solution design. • Worked in a hybrid environment with a mix of internal and external resources in multiple geographical