Role: SAP SD Lead Consultant

Location: Pune

Experience: 8 to 12 Years

What You'll Do:

- Lead requirement discovery workshops, stakeholder discussions, and business process assessment sessions.

- Drive global template design, business process harmonization, and process standardization initiatives.

- Conduct fit-gap analysis and define future-state business processes aligned with organizational goals.

- Lead SAP SD solution design, architecture reviews, and governance activities.

- Configure and optimize SAP SD processes including Sales Order Management, Pricing, Credit Management, Returns Processing, and Settlement Management.

- Design and implement end-to-end Order-to-Cash (OTC) business processes.

- Support Logistics Execution, Customer Fulfilment, Intercompany Sales, and Cross-Company transaction processes.

- Lead SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration and transformation programs.

- Manage implementation, rollout, enhancement, and support projects across multiple regions and business units.

- Oversee testing activities including unit testing, integration testing, UAT, regression testing, and defect management.

- Manage cutover planning, go-live preparation, hypercare support, and stabilization activities.

- Lead SAP SD AMS and production support engagements.

- Govern Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, and Service Management processes.

- Ensure SLA compliance, KPI achievement, and operational governance across support engagements.

- Drive continuous service improvement initiatives and process optimization programs.

- Collaborate with Sales, Logistics, Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance stakeholders.

- Coordinate with ABAP, Basis, Security, Integration, and Infrastructure teams for solution delivery.

- Manage project risks, dependencies, issues, and escalation management activities.

- Present solution recommendations, transformation roadmaps, and project status updates to leadership teams.

- Support proposal development,



solutioning activities, estimations, customer presentations, and RFP responses.

- Mentor junior consultants and provide functional leadership across SAP workstreams.

- Conduct governance reviews, executive reporting, quality reviews, and project health assessments.

Expertise You'll Bring:

- 8–12 years of hands-on experience in SAP SD consulting and enterprise SAP implementations.

- Strong expertise in Order-to-Cash (OTC) processes and SAP SD solution design.

- Deep knowledge of Advanced Pricing, Rebate Management, Settlement Management, Credit Management, Returns Management, and Logistics Execution.

- Strong understanding of Intercompany and Cross-Company business processes.

- Extensive experience with SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA platforms.

- Proven experience in SAP S/4HANA implementations, migrations, rollouts, and transformation programs.

- Experience delivering a minimum of three end-to-end SAP implementation projects.

- Strong understanding of SAP Activate methodology and implementation best practices.

- Experience leading Application Management Services (AMS) and production support engagements.

- Expertise in Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, SLA Governance, and KPI Monitoring.

- Experience handling critical business incidents, escalations, and operational governance activities.

- Solid understanding of sales, distribution, logistics, and supply chain business processes.

- Experience leading functional consulting teams and cross-functional project workstreams.

- Strong stakeholder management and client-facing consulting experience.

- Ability to lead business workshops, solution reviews, and executive discussions.

- Experience managing large-scale global transformation and rollout programs.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

- Excellent communication, presentation, leadership, and documentation skills.

- Ability to drive governance, executive reporting, strategic planning, and process transformation initiatives.

📌 SAP SD Lead Consultant (Pune)
🏢 Persistent Systems
📍 Pune