[The Netherlands] Senior SAP Supply Chain Functional Expert

2 maanden geleden

Amsterdam, Nederland Santen Voltijd
Job Description

* please only apply if you are located in Netherlands*

Job’s mission

* no relocation option
* no consultants - this is a full-time contract office position (hybrid)

The Senior SAP Functional Expert (SFE) reports to the SAP Centre of Excellence (CoE) Head. He/she is responsible for building and delivering expertise and support related to a specific application / functional domain: SD/SCM. 

Within any activity the SFE will need to manage project-related items within the allocated tasks to the Supply Chain department in accordance with our delivery standards. Within Supply Chain department a SFE may also be allocated and expected to manage project management tasks on the assigned activities.

The Senior SAP Functional Expert is expected to:

  • Understand and interpret financial information to ensure value driven decision are made and the impact to the organisation clearly articulated
  • Understand the end to end service not just the technical or functional components and business impact from a user’s perspective
  • Own the technical architecture and delivery of the assigned domain: Supply Chain
  • Develop win-win, collaborative relations that add clear value to all internal and external stakeholders
  • Actively embrace and promote change, especially from a business perspective
  • Lead by example and actively engage and motivate individuals around them

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Process Excellence

  • Act as “technical” owner and guardian of the Global template for the Supply Chain department
  • Grow maturity of application management team and broader DIT departments providing insight into the technical setup of the template
  • Ensure execution of governance decision and planned implementation by AMS and other suppliers
  • Build and promote a knowledge repository in close collaboration with other (Senior) Functional Experts

Solution Optimisation

  • Solution Architecture of the whole domain (robust, scalable and supportable), customer centric and across the product life cycle, using best practices and innovation, stick to standard and avoid high customization if no business rationale exists (consider options vs effort/benefits/long term impacts)
  • Provides subject matter expertise, and guidance on solution standards in the assigned SAP domain.
  • Shape the long-term technical application strategy, roadmap, innovations/update in line with the Lead Architect
  • Raise technology related scope change requests aligned with overall governance and roadmap
  • Actively seek opportunities for improvement and innovation related to potential new IT solutions to support business and IT requirements

Delivery Capability

  • Deliver on promise, manage (project) changes and technical deployment with clear communication on progress and challenges (incl. testing)
  • Signal and judge appropriateness of new IT developments, systems, applications and processes and provide advice on potential improvement opportunities and the (dis) advantages of implementation.
  • Perform the analyses and impact study in case of new requirements related to the SAP assigned domain, coming from new initiatives, projects or change requests.
  • Take on an active role in the definition, design, construction, testing and implementation 
  • Provides knowledge to others during design work to ensure any complexities needing incorporated into the future build or data mappings are not overlooked.
  • Coordinate and provide (end user) training related to new or changed application features that are supported by SAP CoE
  • Contribute to and ensure a smooth and planned handover of assigned SAP domain solutions to Global Operations (AMS)
  • Drive SolMan change request, coordinate approvals, validation, testing, and cutover (change coordination role).
  • Update lifecycle documentation and ensure approval of SLDC documents

Application Health

  • Provide proactive oversight and support on operational issues, root cause analysis, propose potential solutions and support the implementation of improvements to assigned SAP domain (L3).
  • Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability aspects when implementing technical solutions

Business Engagement

  • Translation of business demands, support requirement analysis to ensure cost effective and fit for purpose solution (gaps as-is to-be; documentations; impact on existing processes, required budget, technology required)
  • Actively support the business partners, portfolio manager and other experts in verifying the impact and value of IT changes to business processes and vice versa
  • Partner with PMO and portfolio manager in managing governance bodies support of the process leads (e.g. CAB, PGB)
  • Steer the key user network, support key user onboarding in alignment with process lead

Qualifications

EDUCATION

  • SAP or system certification in the applicable expertise area  (Supply Chain)
  • Bachelor or Masters degree in IT or Business
  • PMP, Prince2 or equivalent certification 

EXPERIENCE

  • A minimum of 7 years’ experience managing SAP global applications with strong track record of design and architecting across the relevant solutions 
  • Partnership with demanding business, project, operation and maintenance stakeholders to enable business value achievement and manage portfolio of solution demands.
  • Preferably you have done a similar role in SAP CoE and pharma environment 


Additional Information

Competencies  

  • Deep understanding of legacy SAP and related products
  • In-depth knowledge of current SAP technologies (e.g. S/4HANA, SAC, BTP, Concur)
  • Strong SAP functional and technical expertise, with a good understanding of integration touch-points between modules and applications
  • Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills 
  • Experience working in Supply Chain
  • Manage multiple Project Management and Resource planning 
  • Manage vendors for implementation, operation and maintenance 
  • Orchestrate various remote, internal / external IT teams to ensure on time solution delivery 
  • Speaks English fluently (Dutch is not a requirement)

Santen SA, the Netherlands Branch has an exclusive arrangement for recruitment services. External recruiting agencies are kindly requested not to contact us regarding the positions listed here.

If you require any kind of accommodation during our recruitment process, please let the recruiter from our team know.

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