Business Systems Engineer Lead

About Grainger: 

Grainger is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. We achieve our purpose, We Keep the World Working®, by serving more than 4.5 million customers with a wide range of products that keep their operations running and their people safe. Grainger also delivers services and solutions, such as technical support and inventory management, to save customers time and money. 

 

We're looking for passionate people who can move our company forward. As one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, we have a welcoming workplace where you can build a career for yourself while fulfilling our purpose to keep the world working. We embrace new ways of thinking and recognize everyone is an individual. Find your way with Grainger today. 

 

Position Description

The Business Systems Engineering Lead (Lead Vistex Developer) will be working with the following Vistex modules: Commissions, Vendor Rebates, Customer Rebates, Territory Management and Chargebacks. This role is a functional/technical role, and the candidate should have experience with Vistex complex custom programing, configuration, and business processes. You will have experience designing, troubleshooting, writing, and supporting ABAP development as required. This position functions as a liaison working with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems.

The Software Engineer /Vistex role consists of the tasks, knowledge, and techniques required to identify business needs and to determine and assess proposed solutions to business problems. Solutions require analysis of impact against 3 variables:

• System Development – Analysis work performed to review the current stated solutions used by an organization, to identify the issues, define the requirements, and suggest best possible solutions, in addition to configuration, development and testing.
• Continuous Improvement – Analysis work to review current manual or workflow activities and tasks performed by people, functional areas, and systems which are designed to achieve a specific outcome, while assuring data quality/integrity.
• Understanding relationships, information exchanges/handoffs, procedures, policies, and observations of work performed to achieve specific outcomes. Within the relationship with the business, the candidate assures alignment for continuous improvement within the systems landscape.

 

You Will

• Participate in and/or drive design effort focusing on end-to-end process optimization, using standard system functionality whenever possible.
• Provide business systems analysis and process redesign expertise, interacting with business partners to clearly define and document business requirements.
• Create and maintain, functional and technical specifications/documentation for the applications required at various phases of the System Development Life Cycle within Solution Manager
• Participate in and/or drive the system configuration, and development which meet security, architecture, and support requirements, all while satisfying business needs.
• Understand the systemic data requirements as they relate to improving/changing the business process or system.
• Participates and/or coordinates required testing/validation of system enhancements and fixes, creating and/or executing test cases including problem determination and resolution.
• Collaborate with business partners regarding deployment needs, training, communications, change management and implementation of the application change.
• Apply project management standards ensuring issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner;