About Genius Business Solutions Inc. (GBSI)
Featured in CNBC, Digital Journal, Fox News, and CIO Review, GBSI is a globally recognized IT services leader with 21+ years serving Fortune 500 organizations. Our teams deliver solutions across automotive, manufacturing, retail, and pharmaceutical industries. Headquartered in Moline, IL, GBSI supports clients and consultants throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and India.
Join our innovative team to lead enterprise-grade SAP solutions and drive digital transformation initiatives across global enterprises.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced SAP MM – Purchasing & Transportation Management Business Adoption & Stabilization Lead with strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA manufacturing environments, particularly project-based, Engineer-to-Order (ETO) businesses.
The lead will drive adoption and stabilization of SAP MM Purchasing and Transportation Management in a project-based, Engineer-to-Order (ETO) manufacturing environment. Working across Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Logistics, Accounts Payable, business users, IT, and SAP support teams, the role will coordinate readiness, testing, training, go-live support, issue resolution, hypercare, and transition to steady-state operations.
Key Responsibilities
Business Adoption & Process Readiness
- Own business adoption and readiness for SAP MM Purchasing and end-to-end Procure-to-Pay processes.
- Translate the global template into clear local roles, controls, procedures, and ways of working.
- Prepare ETO procurement scenarios covering WBS/project structures, customer-specific requirements, long-lead materials, project milestones, goods receipt, invoice verification, and intercompany flows.
- Partner with Accounts Payable on three-way matching, invoice blocks, payment readiness, reconciliation, and exception handling.
- Identify adoption barriers and readiness risks, coordinate corrective actions, and support a network of key users and business champions.
Transportation Management
- Drive readiness and adoption for transportation planning, execution, procurement, and logistics processes integrated with SAP S/4HANA.
- Coordinate end-to-end validation across Purchasing, Inventory, Warehouse, Manufacturing, Finance, and Accounts Payable.
- Prepare users and support procedures for go-live, rapidly triage disruptions, and convert recurring issues into sustainable improvements.
Stakeholder Engagement & Change Leadership
- Lead stakeholder engagement, change-impact assessment, communications, and business readiness while maintaining alignment with the global template.
- Facilitate decisions across Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, SAP PS, FI/CO, Accounts Payable, IT, and support teams.
- Drive process standardization, maintain clear ownership and escalation paths, and ensure process and support documentation remains current.
Business Validation, UAT & Deployment Readiness
- Lead business UAT, including critical scenarios, test data, defect triage, retesting, and business sign-off.
- Validate end-to-end procurement, transportation, ETO project/WBS, financial, and Accounts Payable scenarios, including three-way matching and payment-impacting exceptions.
- Track readiness criteria and escalate unresolved risks affecting deployment, compliance, or business continuity.
Stabilization
- Lead hypercare, and stabilization through transition to steady-state support.
- Troubleshoot current SAP and business issues across process, master data, integration, authorization, workflow, and system areas; coordinate cross-functional resolution through closure.
- Resolve Accounts Payable issues affecting invoices and supplier payments, including PO/GR mismatches, invoice blocks, account assignments, and integration defects.
- Manage incidents, workarounds, root-cause analysis, recovery actions, stabilization reporting, and exit criteria.
Training, Communications & Adoption Measurement
- Coordinate role-based training, communications, user guides, and key-user support.
- Monitor adoption and stabilization outcomes and deliver targeted coaching or process improvements where needed.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- 14+ years of SAP or business transformation experience, including SAP S/4HANA deployment and post-go-live stabilization.
- Strong SAP MM Purchasing and Procure-to-Pay knowledge in project-based, Engineer-to-Order manufacturing.
- Working knowledge of Transportation Management, Accounts Payable integration, SAP PS, FI/CO, PP, WM/EWM, SD, and master data.
- Experience leading business readiness, change, UAT, training, cutover, hypercare, incident governance, and transition to support.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot operational issues, translate technical findings into business impacts, and coordinate cross-functional resolution.
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, analytical, and governance skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with global-template or greenfield S/4HANA rollouts in industrial or asset-intensive environments.
- Experience establishing key-user networks, command centers, floor support, or hypercare routines.
- Familiarity with Prosci/ADKAR, SAP Activate, or agile delivery methods is beneficial.
Equal Employment Opportunity
GeniusBSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation.
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.
