SAP PAPM

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Role-SAP PaPM Manager

Experience required-10+years( must have team lead experience)

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Role Overview

BioMarin is looking for a strong SAP PaPM Consulting Manager to support and stabilize PaPM operations within a global AMS/AES (Operate) support environment.

This is not a pure configuration or ticket-processing role. The consultant will be expected to manage production support, business escalations, enhancement demand, operational stabilization, and stakeholder governance within a fast-paced pharmaceutical environment.

The ideal candidate should have strong finance/process understanding, operational support maturity, stakeholder management capability, and the confidence to work directly with senior business users and leadership teams.

Since PaPM is a niche skill in the market, we are also open to strong adjacent SAP finance and planning backgrounds with transferable PaPM capability.

Candidates with pharma/life sciences and GxP-regulated environment experience are strongly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead SAP PaPM production support and enhancement activities
• Support profitability management, allocations, planning, and reconciliation processes
• Analyze recurring incidents and identify root causes
• Reduce operational noise and recurring support issues
• Work directly with finance and business stakeholders
• Manage enhancement demand and support prioritization
• Coordinate across SAP, CPI, BW, SAC, infrastructure, and third-party teams
• Troubleshoot integration, data, and process-related issues
• Improve operational governance and support maturity
• Mentor junior consultants and offshore support resources
• Participate in incident management, problem management, and release governance
• Support operational stabilization and long-term process improvements

Required Skills

Mandatory

• Strong SAP functional consulting experience
  
• AMS/AES or managed services support experience
• Strong understanding of:
• allocations,
• profitability analysis,
• financial planning,
• reconciliation,
• reporting,
• and finance operations
• Strong stakeholder management capability
• Experience handling business escalations
• Ability to independently lead workshops and discussions
• Strong operational support mindset
• Experience working in large enterprise SAP environments

Preferred Skills

Ideal Skill

• SAP PaPM

Also Open To Strong Candidates With:

• SAP CO / COPA / Margin Analysis
• SAP SAC Planning
• SAP BPC
• SAP Finance Transformation
• SAP BW/HANA with strong finance process background

Additional Preferred Skills

• SAP CPI integration awareness
• S/4HANA Finance exposure
• SAC/BW integration understanding
• Experience with planning and allocation processes
• Pharma or life sciences experience

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• GxP/GMP-regulated environment experience
• Experience working in validated SAP environments
• Experience managing offshore support teams

Soft Skills

The ideal candidate should:

• Be confident handling difficult business stakeholders
• Be comfortable pushing back professionally
• Be calm under pressure
• Have strong communication and leadership skills
• Be operationally disciplined and organized
• Be proactive and ownership-driven
• Be capable of mentoring junior resources
• Be able to separate system, integration, process, and data-related issues
• Be capable of driving governance and reducing escalation noise

Preferred Background

Strong preference for candidates from:

• Big 4 consulting firms
• SAP AMS/AES support organizations
• Pharma/life sciences companies
• Finance transformation programs
• Enterprise planning and profitability management programs

Important Notes for Recruiters

We are NOT looking for:

• Junior support analysts
• Ticket-processing resources
• Pure technical developers
• Consultants without stakeholder-facing experience