S/4 Senior PP / PP-DS Consultant

S/4 Senior PP / PP-DS Consultant

Location: Field Based

Salary: £85,000 per annum plus 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme

About the Role

As S/4 Senior PP/PP-DS Consultant you will be responsible for supporting, configuring, and documenting the functional and business process steps within the Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/PP-DS) workstream. You will ensure that daily delivery tasks follow ‘best practice’ SAP standard processes and support overall practice goals, executing system configurations, assisting in user testing, and reliably delivering tasks under guidance.

As part of your key responsibilities, you’ll:

Assist with day-to-day functional configuration, testing, and debugging of S/4HANA PP/PP-DS modules including BOMs, routings/recipes, MRP, production orders, capacity planning, DS planning board, heuristics, and optimiser settings.

Support the broader pre-sales capability by preparing sample transactional data and maintaining demo environments for Private and Public Cloud SAP solutions.

Follow standard deployment paths utilising SAP Activate tools and templates, ensuring all tasks, risks, and transport documents are updated within Cloud ALM.

Assist in documenting business process mapping activities, utilising Signavio output to understand process flows and executing localised user-adoption workflows via tools like WalkMe.

Participate in and contribute content towards internal knowledge-sharing sessions, practice capability tracking, and system test scenarios.

Assist in setting up localised system walk-throughs and preparing user stories for prospective client evaluation sessions.

About You

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

SAP PP/PP-DS or APO-PPDS consulting experience, with exposure to at least one S/4HANA migration or implementation project.

Foundational understanding of the SAP Activate Methodology, with associated entry-level certifications in SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing or Advanced Planning highly regarded.

Experience or exposure to system prototyping, building demo test scripts, and data staging in support of pre sales processes.

Exposure to process modeling platforms such as SAP Signavio and digital adoption tools such as WalkMe.

Willingness and ability to travel nationally and occasionally internationally as required to support on-site project testing, Go-Live preparation, and hypercare support.

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Computer Science, or equivalent.

About Unipart

We are a supply chain performance improvement partner. We Design, Make, Move, and Improve components in our customers’ supply chains, keeping their operations and assets moving and working better, for longer. Through our commitment to continuously driving operational efficiencies, we improve performance - saving time, cost, and carbon. Our ambition is to be the driving force behind efficient, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We believe that a great workplace is one where you can bring your whole self to work. Our recruitment process is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and based entirely on merit. We define merit through a combination of technical skills and the core behaviours that help our people thrive at Unipart. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of background or circumstances. We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity that exceeds our statutory obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and subsequent legislation. Whether it’s your age, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, family status, or any other characteristic that makes you ‘you’ - it is your talent and potential that we value most. Adjustments for you: We want you to perform at your best. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We are here to support you.

You may have experience in the following: SAP PP, SAP PP-DS, SAP APO, Production Planning, Detailed Scheduling, MRP, Manufacturing, S/4HANA, SAP Activate, SAP Consultant, Supply Chain Planning, Signavio