Senior SAP Material Requirements Planning Architect (Sunnyvale, CA)

***Please note that our customer is currently not considering applicants from the following locations: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee.***

Our Customer is a corporation that develops, manufactures, and markets robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery. Founded in 1995, their goal was to create innovative, robotic-assisted systems that help empower doctors and hospitals to make surgery less invasive than an open approach. Working with the top medical professionals, they continue to develop new, minimally invasive surgical platforms and future diagnostic tools to help solve complex healthcare challenges around the world.

We are seeking a contract SAP MRP Solution Architect to analyze and resolve complex MRP exception issues in the global SAP environment. The ideal candidate will have 20+ years of SAP experience with deep expertise in Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Materials Management (MM), and integration with Production Planning (PP) and Supply Chain processes. This role is critical to stabilizing the planning and raw material procurement processes and ensuring material availability for production. This role is on-site in Sunnyvale, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the as-is MRP process and propose best practices, governance for streamlining and optimizing MRP.
• Lead root cause analysis of MRP exception messages and planning failures across plants and materials.
• Design and implement optimized MRP strategies, lot-sizing, and planning parameters to reduce exceptions and improve planning accuracy.
• Review and propose remediations to master data issues (Material Master, BOM, Procurement Types).
• Propose Engineering Change Order (ECO) best practice recommendations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (PP, MM, Demand, and Supply planning) to ensure end-to-end supply chain integration.
• Develop MRP exception dashboards and KPIs for proactive monitoring.
• Provide knowledge transfer and training to internal teams.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 20+ years of SAP experience, with a strong focus on MRP and MM.
• Proven track record in resolving large-scale MRP issues in complex manufacturing environments.
• Expertise in planning strategies, procurement types, special procurement keys, and stock determination.
• Strong understanding of integration with PP, MM, and advanced planning tools like O9.
• Hands-on experience with MRP Live in S/4HANA (preferred).
• Ability to analyze performance issues and optimize MRP runs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred:

• SAP Certification in MM or PP.
• Experience in Fortune 500 or large-scale manufacturing environments.
• Familiarity with Fiori apps for MRP and planning.

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.