Mirai Product Manager – Planning

Job Title: SAP  Product  Manager – Planning

Location:  Bangalore

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Purpose of Job:

As Product Manager for Planning you will lead the functional design and delivery across key Customer Operation Domain for Planning —(MRP, Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Enterprise Scheduling) —supporting S/4HANA clean-core transformation and application rationalization under the Mirai program. You will provide hands-on functional and technical leadership for applications impacted by the transition from four SAP ECC systems to a unified S/4HANA, ensuring seamless integration, reinstallation, and stabilization. Your responsibilities will include optimizing systems for scalability, cost-efficiency, and resilience. A key focus will be driving fit-to-standard adoption and clean-core principles to enable process efficiency and innovation. You will own end-to-end solution delivery—from design through deployment working closely with Business Product Domains —ensuring architectural integrity, stakeholder alignment, and measurable business value while demonstrating strong execution capabilities and cross-functional leadership. You will also contribute to efforts in process harmonization, and system integration/remediation  across the application landscape, ensuring alignment with ERP best practices and minimizing customizations.  You will need strong experience in execution & end-to-end ownership of large-scale technology transformation programs, hands on experience of functional solution delivery, application integration, rationalisation and Data Migration Management. You will also play a crucial role in supporting the overall program goals, ensuring process harmonisation across the application landscape, and leading efforts in end-to-end data migration, system integration, and solution optimisation.

Key Accountabilities

Strategy & Architecture

• Collaborate with Process Owners, Product Owners &  Business Product Domains for future-state end to end process/solution for Planning (MRP, Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Enterprise Scheduling).

• Champion fit-to-standard and clean-core principles to reduce customizations and align with future-state business goals.

• Ensure solutions are scalable, compliant, and integrated with planning platforms destination architecture.

Solution Delivery

• Own end-to-end delivery of ERP, connected planning applications landing as part of Mirai and working with business product domains for applications already existing and are part of Destination architecture.

• Lead the transition from legacy SAP ECC systems to a unified S/4HANA, ensuring seamless integration and minimal disruption.

• Design applications and integrations that simplify processes, reduce complexity, and support innovation.

Process Optimization

• Promote standardized, simplified processes that enhance compliance and operational efficiency.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with Process Owners, System Integrators, Product Owners and Business Product Domain Teams to co-create scalable solutions.

• Provide hands-on leadership to resolve functional challenges and ensure high-quality, timely delivery.

• Act as a bridge between business objectives and technology capabilities.

Future-Ready Ecosystem

• Collaborate with Planning, Data, Integration, AI, and Cloud teams to shape a stable, cost-effective, and scalable digital ecosystem.

• Ensure alignment with Mirai principles and enterprise priorities.

Partnerships

• Lead solution design with a focus on performance, scalability, and AI-readiness.

• Provide hands-on support for quality assurance and performance tuning to meet evolving business requirements.

• Offer input and drive accountability in project planning, risk mitigation, and issue resolution working closely with SI’s.

Governance & Value Realization

• Drive accountability for delivery outcomes and ensure alignment with business goals.

• Engage stakeholders to ensure architectural integrity and measurable business value.

Experience & Qualifications

• 8+ years of balanced experience across technology and functional roles, with strong exposure to ERP transformation programs (12+ years of overall work experience) .

• 5+ years of SAP functional expertise, with specialization in one or more of the areas MRP,Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Enterprise Scheduling, Procurement, O2C  areas.

• Preferred knowledge of planning tools such as SAP APO, Kinaxis etc., including master data and integration touchpoints.

• Experience in Planning end-to-end process knowledge, ERP configuration, process setup, master data and system integration.

• Skilled in planning, resource management, and delivery in fast-paced, agile environments.

• Ability to assess complex systems and define scalable, value-driven solutions.

• Proven track record in leading design and development efforts in collaboration with System Integrators (SIs).

• Demonstrated ability to drive complex change in global, matrixed environments through cross-functional leadership.

• Strong influencing, stakeholder engagement, and cross-cultural collaboration skills.

• Adept at aligning technical strategies with business goals to deliver long-term value.

• Preferably certified or formally trained in relevant ERP or transformation methodologies

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• CARE DEEPLY: We care about how consumers experience our brands, the growth and development of our people, and their impact on the planet. We emphasize the importance of performance and care, moving from ambiguity about success to fairness and transparency. 

• FOCUS ON WHAT COUNTS: We prioritize what truly matters, setting clear and stretching goals. We aim to shift from having everything as a priority to focusing on fewer, bigger things that are delivered to conclusion and are being rewarded. 

• STAY THREE STEPS AHEAD: We encourage bold and creative thinking to make breakthroughs in performance. We focus on anticipating and staying ahead of consumer needs and external trends, shifting from reacting to leading, shaping, and disrupting the market. 

• DELIVER WITH EXCELLENCE: The emphasis is on delivering everything with excellence and pace, taking personal ownership, and holding each other accountable. We aim to shift from pride in thinking to pride in execution, developing breakthrough solutions and ensuring the best outcomes. 

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion 

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.