SAP Solution Practice Analyst

Job Description

Hybrid: This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren – GM Global Technical Center three times per week, at minimum or other frequency dictated by the business.

The RTP (Request to Pay)/PTD (Plan to Deliver) Solution Practices work collaboratively with our IT Configuration and Development partners as well as our Business Stakeholders to transform our current SAP landscape from SRM/ECC to S4/Ariba/Central Procurement.

All design work follows the “clean core” principle to minimize system customization.

We are following a tailored Project Management Methodology (BOP “Bill of Process”) which takes our projects from Discovery thru Execution to Implementation. The Execution Phase follows Agile or Hybrid Agile/Waterfall application development methodologies.

We are looking for a versatile and agile individual who is a quick learner and will actively support our Scrum Teams, Stakeholder Management  and Application Design & Development activities.

We are looking for a team member with a solid SAP background (ideally in the Procure to Pay and/or Materials Management space), experience in Agile methodology (creation of features and user stories, backlog management), Business Process Mapping (ideally in Signavio) and Project Management.

Our work requires a high level of agility, resilience, attention to detail, passion for working with complex spreadsheets and large amounts of data, team orientation, willingness and ability to learn new things, initiative and customer centricity.

Responsibilities:

• Planning and execution of Current and Future State Workshops (“Blueprinting”)

• Working across all levels of the organization to ensure alignment and obtain required sign offs on designs and deliverables

• Creation and/or review of deliverables in support of the BOP process as well as the IT development process (e.g. Features, User Stories, Test Scenarios and Scripts etc.)

• Business process mapping (creation of business process flow diagrams) in Signavio following BPMNS 2.0 methodology

• User Acceptance Testing

• Leading/supporting internal RTP/PTD PMO (Project Management) and Scrum Team activities

• Maintenance and enhancements of MS-Sharepoint sites

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

Additional Job Description

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (computer science/business administration with SAP ERP emphasis) or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 2 or more years in a Project Management, Functional Consultant Agile Product Owner or related role

• Experience with Ariba Procurement , Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration, SAP S4 MRP, Materials and Inventory Management, SAP S4 Accounts Payable / Open Text VIM, SAP S4 Purchase Orders, Contracts, or Scheduling Agreements

• Experience in Master Data Management

• Experience in planning and executing Business Process Blueprinting session

• Experience in Business Process Flow diagramming

• Experience in Project Management

• Experience in MS Azure Dev Ops and/or Atlassian Jira

• Experience with SharePoint, MS Project, and MS Visio

• Must be willing to travel 5%

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to quickly and effectively understand & learn new processes (Learn on the fly)

• Ability to interview/listen to stakeholders and extract the necessary information to document processes, requirements and pain points

• Ability to translate business requirements into system requirements

• Ability to lead by influence

• Agile and resilient

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrated commitment to teamwork and partnerships

• Ability to act with urgency and under stress

• Basic understanding of Agile Principles in Application Development