SAP Pharmaceutical Contract Freelance Jobs Europe Nordic USA

Freelance SAP Pharmaceuticals Consultants Contract Jobs Nordic USA Europe

Role Overview

Inter-Consulting is seeking an experienced Freelance SAP Pharmaceuticals Consultants to support SAP implementation, optimization, validation, and transformation projects for pharmaceutical and life-sciences clients.

The consultant will combine strong SAP functional knowledge with an understanding of GxP-regulated pharmaceutical processes, including manufacturing, quality management, supply chain, serialization, batch traceability, and regulatory compliance. This is a contract-based opportunity suited to an independent consultant who can work effectively with business stakeholders, technical teams, validation specialists, and project leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead or support SAP implementations, upgrades, rollouts, and S/4HANA transformation projects within pharmaceutical and life-sciences organizations.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into compliant SAP processes, functional specifications, and system configurations.
• Configure relevant SAP modules and manage integration across manufacturing, quality, procurement, warehousing, sales, and finance.
• Design and optimize batch-managed manufacturing, material traceability, quality inspection, release, and inventory-control processes.
• Support pharmaceutical supply-chain requirements such as serialization, track-and-trace, expiry management, cold-chain controls, and product recalls.
• Ensure that SAP solutions comply with applicable GxP, GMP, GDP, FDA, and data-integrity requirements.
• Contribute to computerized system validation activities, including risk assessments, validation plans, requirements, test scripts, traceability matrices, and validation reports.
• Support compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, and electronic records and electronic-signature requirements.
• Facilitate workshops with business process owners, subject-matter experts, quality assurance teams, and IT stakeholders.
• Plan and execute unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and defect resolution.
• Support master-data migration, data cleansing, reconciliation, cutover, go-live, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Produce functional designs, process flows, configuration documents, standard operating procedures, work instructions, and training materials.
• Train business users and provide knowledge transfer to internal support teams.
• Investigate production issues, identify root causes, and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
• Work independently while maintaining clear reporting, documentation, and communication with client and SAAP project leadership.

SAP Modules and Solutions

Candidates should have advanced expertise in at least one core SAP module and strong cross-functional knowledge of related pharmaceutical processes.

Pharmaceutical Process Knowledge

The consultant should understand several of the following areas:

• Pharmaceutical manufacturing, packaging, and laboratory processes.
• Batch management, genealogy, potency, shelf life, expiry, and retest dates.
• Material status, quarantine, sampling, inspection, release, and rejection.
• Good Manufacturing Practice and controlled manufacturing environments.
• Deviations, investigations, change controls, CAPA, and quality notifications.
• Product serialization, aggregation, verification, and traceability.
• Recall management and rapid identification of affected batches.
• Cold-chain logistics and temperature-sensitive materials.
• Controlled substances, hazardous materials, and restricted inventory.
• Contract manufacturing and external processing.
• Equipment calibration, maintenance, and qualification.
• Stability studies, certificates of analysis, and quality documentation.
• Master-data governance for materials, bills of material, recipes
• Resources, inspection plans, and production versions.
• Integration with LIMS, MES, WMS, laboratory instruments, serialization platforms.T
• hird-party logistics providers.

GxP and Validation Knowledge

The successful consultant should demonstrate practical knowledge of:

• GxP, including GMP and GDP principles.
• Computerized System Validation and risk-based validation approaches.
• FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11.
• Data-integrity principles, including ALCOA+.
• Audit trails, electronic signatures, role-based access, and segregation of duties.
• Validation deliverables such as URS, FRS, configuration specifications.
• Risk assessments, IQ, OQ, PQ, test evidence, and traceability matrices.
• Change control, incident management, deviation management, and CAPA.
• Good documentation practices and inspection-ready records.
• Industry frameworks such as GAMP 5, where applicable.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience configuring and supporting SAP solutions in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical-device, or other regulated life-sciences environments.
• Demonstrated experience with at least one complete SAP implementation, rollout, upgrade, or S/4HANA migration.
• Ability to translate regulated business processes into practical SAP designs.
• Strong understanding of integration between SAP modules and connected systems.
• Experience preparing functional specifications, configuration documents, test scripts, and validation evidence.
• Knowledge of master-data migration, data quality, reconciliation, and cutover planning.
• Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and defect-management capabilities.
• Effective workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, and user-training skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently in remote, hybrid, and client-site environments.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple deliverables and deadlines.

Preferred Technical Skills

• SAP Fiori applications, roles, catalogs, and business processes.
• SAP Activate methodology and agile delivery practices.
• Integration using IDocs, APIs, OData services, middleware, or SAP Integration Suite.
• Basic understanding of ABAP debugging and technical object analysis.
• Data migration using SAP Migration Cockpit, BAPIs, IDocs, or other migration tools.
• Reporting and analytics using embedded analytics, CDS views, SAP Analytics Cloud, or SAP BW.
• SAP Solution Manager or SAP Cloud ALM.
• Test-management and validation platforms such as Tricentis, Jira, Azure DevOps, or application lifecycle management tools.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, pharmacy, chemistry, supply chain, business, or a related discipline.
• Typically, 5+ years of SAP consulting experience, including substantial work in pharmaceutical or regulated life-sciences environments.
• Proven client-facing consulting experience.
• Experience working with global teams and cross-functional business processes is preferred.
• Prior freelance or contract consulting experience is an advantage.

Relevant Certifications

Certifications should match the consultant's primary specialization and the client's SAP environment.

Engagement Requirements

• Engagement type: Freelance or independent contract.
• Work arrangement:  hybrid,and on-site depending on the client project.
• Availability for client workshops, testing cycles, go-live activities, and occasional travel may be required.
• The consultant must comply with client confidentiality, information-security, documentation, and quality-management requirements.
• Candidates should provide details of module expertise, certifications, project availability, location, rate expectations, and work authorization.

Application Information

Applicants should submit:

• A current resume or consultant profile.
• A summary of SAP pharmaceutical and life-sciences project experience.
• Primary and secondary SAP modules.
• S/4HANA implementation or migration experience.
• GxP and validation experience.
• Current SAP and industry certifications.
• Availability, location, preferred working arrangement, and contract rate.
• Two relevant project references, where permitted.
• Please apply with full CV to be shortlisted as daily requests.