Senior SAP Business Analyst *PC 659

Are you ready to start revolutionizing biomedical research? When you join Miltenyi Biotec, you join a family that is passionate about making a real impact – one breakthrough at a time. For over 30 years, we have played a pivotal role in the design, development, manufacture, and integration of products for sample preparation, cell separation, cell analysis, imaging, and cell culture needs. These developments have led to cutting-edge cell and gene therapies – transformative methods that mobilize the body’s own cells and genetic blueprint to tackle diseases such as cancer and autoimmune conditions. Today, our more than 18,000 solutions play a vital role in paving the way for the medicine of tomorrow.

Senior SAP Business Analyst 

Gaithersburg, MD

Your Tasks:

This position is responsible for supporting and ensuring the successful completion of analytical, building, testing and deployment tasks within SAP environments. This role involves working closely with internal stakeholders to gather requirements, identify areas for improvement, and develop strategies to enhance system performance that align with our business goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for optimizing and analyzing requirements and processes needed for our business and proposing design solutions utilizing SAP.
• Act as an internal consultant within the business, helping to facilitate and configure SAP as a tool for process improvement.
• Work directly with SAP system users and leaders to determine the appropriate system configuration and setup depending on the business need. This will include creating and delivering on training materials, procedures, and work instructions to group users.
• Manage testing application and interface changes before setting up users for test; train users on software quality assurance processes, collect and review test results. Train users on applications up to super-user level.
• Execute and collaborate with IT project managers on project administration tasks such as issue list management, task management, documentation, training and perform project management tasks on some projects.
• Interface when applicable and document test application and interface changes before setting up users for test; train users on software quality assurance processes, collect and review test results.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business Administration or a related field; A minimum 5 years of relevant consulting or operations experience with SAP systems, with 8-12 years’ experience supporting those functions in an information technology capacity; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Proficiency with SAP MM and PP modules required, other modules are a plus: WM, QM, PM.
• Experience managing operations and deploying changes in high compliance environments such as medical, pharmaceutical, biotech, food industry, etc.
• Experience training users and driving change adoption among various user communities, including technicians, engineers, scientists, and management level employees.
• Experience with ABAP is a plus.

Skills:

• Ability to self-train on information technology systems such as ERP, MES and other systems using documentation and testing
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge of manufacturing, production, and procurement business processes and their integration with SAP systems.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once; Ability to work with users to define priorities. 
• Ability to think strategically, execute tactfully, and collaborate across multiple internal teams.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear. The employee is required to stand; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch. The employee must occ