SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) Functional Consultant – Senior Lead

• Lead the design of a unified SAP GTS global template consolidating five independently configured regional GTS environments, each with distinct legal content, customs procedures, and compliance configurations
• Conduct comprehensive fit-gap analysis across all five regional GTS instances — documenting configuration variations, country-specific legal content differences, and interface dependencies
• Define the global GTS architecture: centralized vs. decentralized GTS deployment model for the S/4HANA target landscape, including plug-in strategy per region
• Establish a phased migration approach aligned to the client's wave-based regional consolidation program
• Configure and harmonize SAP GTS Compliance Management across all regions: Sanctioned Party List (SPL) screening, embargo and export controls, license determination, and legal regulation assignments
• Consolidate five regional SPL screening configurations into a single global compliance framework with region-specific legal regulation overlays
• Define and configure export control classification across US, EU, and APAC regulatory regimes for a complex global CPG product portfolio spanning personal care, oral care, and nutrition categories
• Manage SAP GTS legal content updates and patches across all active country configurations
• Design and configure customs declaration processes for key import/export markets including US (ACE/AES), EU member states, Brazil, Mexico, China, and Japan
• Harmonize bonded warehouse, inward processing relief (IPR), and outward processing procedures across regions into the global template
• Configure preference determination and rules of origin for relevant free trade agreements across the client's global trade lanes — USMCA, EU FTAs, CPTPP, RCEP
• Lead customs tariff number (HTS/HS code) master data consolidation across five regional instances, aligning product classification across global markets
• Define integration architecture between S/4HANA feeder system and GTS for all relevant document flows: purchase orders, sales orders, outbound deliveries, goods movements, and billing documents
• Validate GTS plug-in compatibility post-S/4HANA conversion and define plug-in upgrade strategy per regional migration wave
• Work with technical teams on ALE/IDoc interface mapping and interface changes arising from the ECC-to-S/4HANA conversion
• Lead GTS-specific SIT and UAT across all compliance and customs scenarios for each regional migration wave
• Design and execute GTS cutover plan per wave — including open customs declarations, pending SPL screening queues, and in-transit bonded goods
• Provide hypercare support post-go-live for each regional wave; manage trade compliance incident resolution and regulatory query handling

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