SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing Implementation Program
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1 Shop-floor change management for a paperless transformation - moving operators, inspectors, planners and technicians off paper/Excel/legacy tools onto real-time SAP process. 2 Multi-language, multi-shift training delivery across four plants, in Japanese alongside other floor languages. 3 Key-person knowledge capture - documenting business logic held in individuals’ spreadsheets and heads, a named program risk. 4 Adoption measurement - defining per-role adoption, measuring through hypercare, and acting on the data rather than declaring success at go-live. Role Overview This program moves a paper-, Excel- and point-tool-based manufacturing operation to real-time, paperless, standard SAP process across four plants and two divisions. The OCM and Training Lead owns the human side of delivery end to end: stakeholder engagement, communication, business readiness, role-based training, knowledge capture and adoption measurement, across a multi-shift operator population working in part in languages other than Japanese. Key Responsibilities
- Own the change management and training strategy across all four workstreams and all four plants, integrated into the master program plan.
- Run change impact assessments by role, division and plant, and the stakeholder engagement/communication plan from executives to shift operators.
- Design and deliver role-based training - curricula, work instructions, hands-on practice - for shop-floor dashboards, quality capture, hand-held terminals, planning and costing.
- Own the language strategy for end-user content (Japanese plus other floor languages), including translation and terminology governance.
- Lead structured knowledge capture from key individuals on lot-numbering, allocation, planning and inspection logic.
- Build the super-user network and business readiness criteria feeding go/no-go decisions; define and act on adoption metrics through hypercare.
- BATCH MANAGEMENT & TRACEABILITY - PREFERRED, NOT REQUIRED Not a configuration role, but the program’s largest behavioral changes sit in lot and batch handling - a lead who understands the paper-to-system shift in lot creation/splitting and quality-driven batch status will build materially better training.
Requirements
- 8+ years OCM/end-user training on enterprise implementations, incl. 3+ full-lifecycle ERP programs, 1+ on SAP.
- Proven change/training delivery to a manufacturing shop-floor population, across multiple shifts and sites.
- Structured methodology (Prosci/ADKAR, Kotter) applied with judgment; effective work with a non-English-speaking workforce.
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Business readiness/go-no-go experience; adoption metrics beyond completion counts; super-user network design. Preferred Qualifications
- Bilingual English/Japanese (business level) preferred, not required - substantial direct floor contact.
- Prior change delivery in Japan/Japanese manufacturing; multi-language training content and translation QC.
- Experience retiring legacy tools; familiarity with SAP Digital Manufacturing, Fiori, hand-held interfaces; Prosci certification a plus. Language & Engagement Fluent English required; business-level Japanese a strong advantage, not a condition of appointment - interpretation support and bilingual pairing provided. Full-time, Explore through Deploy and hypercare, with substantial on-site presence across shifts during training, cutover and hypercare. Reports to the Program Manager.
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