Job Overview
The Manager, Business Process will lead SAP-enabled business process support, standardization, and continuous improvement across Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS), with a focus on Materials, Operations, Manufacturing, Planning, Purchasing, Inventory, Warehouse Management, Master Data, and Supply Chain execution.
This role serves as a key business process leader for HUS sites, partnering closely with Material Managers, Operations leaders, HUS Materials, Global Operations, SAP/IT teams, and functional communities to strengthen process discipline, resolve complex business process issues, and improve the effectiveness and adoption of standard SAP processes.
Serving as a bridge between site operations and technical teams, the Manager, Business Process will translate operational needs into clear business requirements, support solution design and testing, lead user acceptance and readiness activities, and ensure successful implementation and stabilization of SAP processes and enhancements.
This leader will also play an important role in maturing SAP utilization across HUS locations by developing functional improvement plans, strengthening standard work, and driving site-level process improvements that enhance service, inventory accuracy, planning reliability, and operational execution.
A Day In The Life
In this role, you will:
- Lead business process improvement and standardization across HUS manufacturing and operations sites, strengthening SAP utilization and performance.
- Partner across Materials, Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, Planning, Purchasing, Warehouse Management, Finance, Customer Service, and IT to solve business needs.
- Serve as a functional SAP leader, translating operational requirements into effective SAP ERP and S/4HANA processes and solutions.
- Assess processes, identify root causes, and drive improvements across planning, MRP, inventory, purchasing, master data, warehouse management, and production.
- Support SAP implementations, enhancements, and site transitions from requirements and UAT through cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
- Drive standard work, site readiness, training, and adoption for SAP initiatives, plant moves, physical inventory, and new site onboarding.
- Use SAP data, KPIs, and dashboards to prioritize improvements and measure results.
- Coach SAP Specialists and super users while partnering with Global Operations and SAP/IT to drive scalable, sustainable continuous improvement.
What will help you thrive in this role?
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 5+ years of related experience supporting supply chain, materials, manufacturing, planning, purchasing, inventory, warehouse management, or SAP-enabled business processes.
- Strong working knowledge of SAP ERP and/or SAP S/4HANA, with experience across areas such as Materials Management (MM), Production Planning (PP), Inventory Management/Warehouse Management (IM/WM), master data, purchasing, receiving, production planning, and inventory management.
- Experience supporting SAP implementations, enhancements, UAT, cutover, go-live stabilization, business process transitions, plant moves, or new site onboarding.
- Strong understanding of MRP, production and capacity planning, inventory accuracy, cycle counting, purchasing, material movement, intercompany supply, and master data dependencies.
- Demonstrated ability to translate operational needs into clear business requirements, process designs, test scenarios, documentation, training, and readiness plans.
- Experience leading root cause analysis, solution development, and corrective action planning across complex, cross-functional business process issues.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and influencing skills with the ability to partner effectively across plant teams, functional leaders, technical teams, and senior leadership.
- Experience developing and maintaining standard work, process documentation, training materials, work instructions, process flows, governance routines, or control plans.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to use SAP data, operational KPIs, reporting, and dashboards to identify issues and drive measurable improvements.
- Experience within a multi-site manufacturing or operations environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.
- Ability to travel 40% - 70%+ to support site assessments, SAP implementations and go-lives, process reviews, training, stabilization efforts, physical inventory readiness, and new site onboarding.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience supporting SAP S/4HANA within manufacturing, materials, planning, warehouse management, inventory management, or supply chain execution.
- Experience partnering with plant leadership, Material Managers, planners, buyers, warehouse teams, Operations, Finance, Customer Service, IT, and global or corporate process teams.
- Experience supporting annual physical inventory, inventory control, intercompany purchasing, production planning, material movement standardization, plant transitions, or new site onboarding.
- Experience coaching or mentoring through SAP adoption and process improvement.
Hubbell Incorporated
Hubbell creates critical infrastructure solutions that power our customers, communities, people and the planet. Our company is strategically aligned around enabling grid modernization and electrification. As more products plug in to an aging grid, Hubbell solutions enable the transition to a more reliable, resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. Founded in 1888 our innovation has made us a leading global manufacturer of high quality electrical and utility solutions enabling customers to operate critical infrastructure reliably and efficiently.
The company operates in two segments. Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications and Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. Our vertical market solutions can be applied to markets including Data Centers, Renewables, Commercial Buildings, Industrial, Telecom and Transportation. Supporting both of our business segments is our corporate and Hubbell Unified Business Solutions teams that provide consistent process, tools technologies across our businesses.
We are committed to operating sustainably and ethically while promoting an inclusive and supportive culture for our people to grow and develop in their careers. Our employees proudly work and serve our communities from our headquarters in Shelton, CT, across the United States and around the globe.
Hubbell Utility Solutions
Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications. HUS provides the critical components that allow the grid to reliably transmit and distribute energy, as well as the communications and controls technologies to make the grid smarter and more flexible.
Hubbell Incorporated, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.
The above summary of position responsibilities and requirements is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of duties, skills, efforts, physical requirements, or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal position elements essential for making decisions related to position performance, employee development, and compensation.