ERP Production Systems Lead

ABOUT SLATE

At Slate, we’re building safe, reliable vehicles that people can afford, personalize and love—and doing it here in the USA as part of our commitment to reindustrialization. The spirit of DIY and customization runs throughout every element of a Slate, because people should have control over how their trucks look, feel, and represent them.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a Senior SAP S/4HANA Solution Architect – Production Planning (PP) to own the end-to-end design and architecture of Slate’s manufacturing planning and execution processes as part of the company’s migration from NetSuite to SAP S/4HANA.

Reporting to Slate’s Head of ERP Systems, this role serves as the internal counterpart to our implementation partner’s Solution Architect and is accountable for establishing the long-term SAP Production Planning design strategy. The successful candidate will lead the architecture, configuration direction, and process design for SAP S/4HANA Production Planning (PP), Demand Management, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Production Execution, Capacity Planning, Master Data Governance, and integration points with Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Warehouse, and Finance operations.

As the senior functional authority for Manufacturing and Production Planning, this individual will ensure that SAP design decisions support operational scalability, manufacturing excellence, inventory optimization, and efficient production execution across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in discrete manufacturing environments, with automotive industry experience strongly preferred.

This is a permanent product team role, not a project-based assignment. The selected candidate will help launch the initial SAP S/4HANA platform and then own the ongoing evolution of Manufacturing and Production Planning capabilities for years to come.

WHAT YOU GET TO DO

• Lead the design and implementation of SAP S/4HANA PP solutions across manufacturing planning and execution processes.

• Define end-to-end solution architecture aligned with enterprise business requirements and SAP best practices.

• Provide functional leadership for SAP PP-related projects, assessments, enhancements, and transformation initiatives.

• Drive standardization, process simplification, and adoption of SAP S/4HANA manufacturing capabilities.

• Establish scalable production planning processes capable of supporting rapid growth and operational complexity.

• Lead the design and optimization of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) processes within SAP S/4HANA.

• Ensure seamless process integration across demand planning, procurement, manufacturing, quality, warehouse, and financial functions.

• Drive alignment between business stakeholders and implementation teams on future-state manufacturing processes.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field.

• 10+ years of SAP PP experience, including multiple full lifecycle SAP implementations.

• 3+ years of SAP S/4HANA solution architecture experience.

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Green field implementation or transformation programs.

• A clear, defensible point of view on clean-core and fit-to-standard design, with the credibility to serve as the implementation partner's counterpart and hold the line against unnecessary customization.

• Experience writing functional specifications, leading finance-side user acceptance testing, and partnering with implementation partners and IT through go-live and stabilization.

• Familiarity with SOX requirements for finance systems, ideally in a pre-IPO or recently public-company environment.

• Comfortable in a fast-paced, growth-stage environment building a system rather than maintaining one.

Salary Range

The compensation  for this position is the range Slate reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge; skillset; experience, education and training; certifications; work location; and other relevant business and organizational factors.

Base Pay Range (Annual)

Salary Range

The compensation  for this position is the range Slate reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compen