Senior SAP Business Process Manager Sugarbeet (all gender)

Field of Work: Business Development; IT, IT
Location: Einbeck 
Legal Entity: KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA 
Contract Type: Regular
Is Full Time: Yes
Job ID: 16626

At KWS, we are advancing our global S/4HANA transformation and optimizing end-to-end business processes across our organization. To support this journey, we are looking for an experienced Senior SAP Business Process Manager (all gender) Sugarbeet to join our team at KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA in Einbeck, Germany. This permanent full-time position offers you the opportunity to apply and develop your skills in a challenging and demanding business environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Steer the development of a work stream in S4HANA Program through all SAP Activate phases in our business unit Sugarbeet


• Support SAP Process Owner in particular for modules MM/PP/QM/PM/WM : consultancy / maintenance / testing / troubleshooting


• Prepare the sprint planning, align review dates together with the process team, monitor progress of sprint & release backlog in JIRA


• Manage stakeholder expectations with regards to S4Hana program and multiple internal departments


• Continuous gap analysis to identify demand for adjustments of system and/or training of users


• Organization/coordination of user support in sales/logistics/production within the business unit Sugarbeet, ticket support, management of roles/access rights

Requirements & Qualifications:

• Extensive professional experience in SAP process/project management in particular with modules PP/QM/PPDS, additionally the modules MDM & MM would be nice to have


• Experience with S4Hana rollouts and ECC working procedures is necessary


• Proven structured and target oriented project management skills in challenging and demanding, complex and international organizational settings


• Entrepreneurial spirit: ability to move projects from conceptual to implementation phase, within this, skills to create, analyze and optimize End to End processes


• Ability to positively cope with change and lead the transformational process


• Effective and transparent written and verbal communication in English and high degree of intercultural and interpersonal skills, additional language skills (in particular German) are an asset


• Willingness to travel globally up to 10-15% of working time

What we offer:

• As a family-run company we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight and independence - this culture is lived in practice creating thus an open and friendly working atmosphere.


• True to our motto Make yourself grow, we support employees’ professional and personal development.


• We offer excellent work equipment (e.g. ergonomic workstations, several monitors, air conditioning), a fully-fledged, subsidized canteen, direct train connection and sufficient free parking spaces at the KWS location.


• We create the appropriate framework conditions for you: flexible working hours, a company pension scheme, capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, special prices for company shares, childcare allowance and a job bike and job ticket option.


• Health & Safety are very important for us: our company doctor, company fire brigade / paramedics (with time credit) and company sports create a solid base for this.

If you are passionate about driving transformation and optimizing end-to-end business processes, we encourage you to apply and make a difference at KWS.
Apply now and shape the future with us!

About KWS

KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. Nearly 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants’ resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development. For more information: www.kws.com/career. Follow us on LinkedIn® at https://linkedin.com/company/kwsgroup/.

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