SAP S/4 HANA Application Expert - Product Management

     Primary Job Purpose

      Responsible to support and assist in the design and implementation of the Product Management area including configurations and determining the best ways to use S/4 HANA by merging business and IT needs and focusing on utilizing the system for the greatest efficiency and utilization.

Work very closely with Lead Solution Architect – Sales & Operations to meet SAP implementation deliverables.

Key Position Accountabilitites

• Being part of Global IT team and responsible for Product Management workstream area and responsible for configuration and associated developments are designed, built, tested & deployed according to S/4 HANA best practices.

• Facilitate and support workstream managers / Solution Architects & leads right from requirement gathering, solution design with focus on the products and integration of same with sales and Customer Service, procurement and finance workstreams.

• Take the lead on the data migration activities for the rollout projects to support business stakeholders to extract/validate the legacy data and then facilitate the IT service provider to successfully load the data into SAP.

• Responsible for creating/maintaining ffunctional specifications for WRICEF (Workflow, Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement, Forms) objects.

• Analyse, create and document business processes during the project implementation.

• Support larger project team during configuration, testing, training, migration, cutover, go-live and up-grade phases.

• Support incidents or change requests for the live Business units.

Selection Criteria

Essential:

• Bachelor / Master's degree in Business, Computer Science, or equivalent discipline is required with minimum 5 - 10 years of SAP consulting experience with multiple Industries.

• Minimum 2 full lifecycle implementations / roll outs & support project experience in the area of material master data, data modelling, data governance in S/4 HANA or SAP ECC Projects with knowledge of integration across financial and logistics processes in SAP as a subject matter expert.

• Hands on experience defining various types of Material master, Variant Configuration, Bill of Materials, Class & Characteristics and Object dependencies.

• Should have demonstrated hands-on experience in delivery of large, complex, global engagements involving multi-currency, multi-location, multi-organization complexities.

• Should have solution design capabilities to reengineer business processes, sound knowledge of process modelling, ERP and packaged application fit/gap analysis, addressing critical business challenges typical to the industry or regional process nuances.

• Understanding on SAP Best Practices and knowledge in Master data, MM module, their integrations & technology.

• Ability to learn new tasks quickly; demonstrate flexibility when presented with change.

• Lead and support a team environment.

• Strong communication skills in English, self-driven and motivated.

• Ability to manage and deliver multiple priorities in a constrained timeline

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Desirable:

• SAP S/4 HANA Certification in SAP MM.

• Knowledge of new features in SAP S/4HANA like embedded analytics, user experience using Fiori, SAP cloud platform

Work Environment Factors

• Office based/Remote with occasional international travel.

• Health and Safety accountability statements.

• Working times are European time zone, however open to be available in US/APC time zone as well for the need basis.

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