Key Responsibilities
- Lead blueprint and design workshops for SAP TPM covering promotion planning, trade funds management (TFM), accruals, deduction management, and settlement
- Harmonize TPM business processes across multiple regional SAP instances into a single standardized global template
- Configure SAP Trade Promotion Management including promotion types, condition techniques, funds management account determination, and rebate processing
- Design and configure SAP Deduction Management and Claims Management processes integrated with FI-AR
- Define and manage the TPM master data model: trade funds, sold-to/ship-to hierarchies, product hierarchies, and planning calendars
- Collaborate with SD, FI, and CO functional teams to ensure end-to-end integration of promotion-to-cash processes
- Conduct fit-gap analysis between current-state regional TPM configurations and the target global template
- Support data migration of open promotions, fund balances, and accrual postings from legacy systems to S/4HANA
- Lead SIT, UAT, and regression testing for all TPM scenarios; author functional test scripts
- Provide training and knowledge transfer to regional key users and business teams
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of SAP TPM / CGT functional consulting experience
- At least 2 full-cycle SAP TPM implementations in a Consumer Goods environment
- Deep expertise in SAP Funds Management, promotion settlement, accrual accounting, and deduction processing
- Strong integration knowledge across SD (pricing, condition records), FI-AR (open item management, clearing), and CO (profitability analysis)
- Experience working with multi-tier customer hierarchies and complex trade fund structures
- Ability to lead business process workshops and translate complex trade promotion requirements into SAP configuration
- Strong documentation skills: functional specifications, configuration guides, test scripts, training materials
Preferred / Nice-to-Have
- Experience on multi-instance ECC consolidation or global template rollout programs
- Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA enhancements to TPM including Fiori-based promotion management