SAP Technical Lead - Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Role overview:

The SIE IT – Corporate Applications department implements, enhances, and supports products and services that underpin PlayStation’s Sales, Finance and Operations business processes. SAP is the strategic solution in this space: the estate currently comprising SAP ERP, BW, and SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP).

We are looking for an experienced SAP Technical Lead - Integrated Business Planning (IBP) to take on responsibility for the delivery of SAP IBP solutions in the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) module, and other integrated modules as required.

• You will help us in our mission to establish within SAP IBP a best-in-class Sales & Operations Planning process globally. You will do this by working with business and technical teams to understand Supply Chain and Sales & Operations Planning processes (including production planning and scheduling) and by designing and being responsible for the delivery of secure, high-performance technical solutions that meet these requirements by fully leveraging SAP product capabilities.
• You have previously led deep technical teams in the successful delivery of large-scale, sophisticated IBP solutions and have proven experience in SAP package solution implementation tools and methodologies.
• You will act as a mentor and guide to the team and will champion a culture of sharing and learning across the business and technology teams that you engage with, whilst encouraging autonomy and ownership within the team. You will lead and inspire internal and external team members to achieve outstanding results in a fast-paced environment.

What you’ll be doing:

• Technical leadership in the continued implementation and development of SIE’s SAP IBP platform, including but not limited to:
• Being responsible for the SAP IBP technical solution globally and overseeing delivery to ensure it meets business goals by
• Providing direction and governance for the implementation of all key functional and non-functional requirements on the IBP platform;
• Own and maintain the solutions roadmap and phased implementation approach to achieve strategic business objectives;
• Running a technical design authority for the solution design for all proposed new features and changes on the platform;
• Setting priorities for and allocating work to developers;
• Assuring the quality of the solution;
• Validating the approach for the release of system changes to ensure proper testing and documentation is completed;
• Develop and own an operating model for the management of the IBP environments, dependencies and deployment;
• Taking on planning and delivery actions to resolve systems and infrastructure ‘blockers’;
• Translating business strategy into product strategy by:
• Identifying business partners and engaging with them to discover, understand and define business problems and opportunities;
• Understanding existing business processes, mapping out process flows and identifying areas for improvement;
• Contributing to interface design, and co-ordinating and assisting with integration testing as required;
• Providing guidance and recommendations to business partners, driving standardisation and adoption of SAP standard methodologies globally whenever possible;
• As required, working closely with internal and third-party technical teams to analyse, solve, and resolve production issues (including performance) issues:
• Triaging user tickets and assigning calls to the correct resolver group;
• Identifying technical issues and reviewing with business and technical teams;
• Implementing, and co-ordinating the testing and release of fixes;
• Reviewing Quarterly SAP IBP Upgrades and assessing impact on the platform;
• Finding opportunities for how new features can be capitalised on;

What we are looking for:

• Technical leadership experience in architecting and collaborating with business process architect groups