Unilever - IT SME SAP PLM

Position Title : IT SME SAP PLM

Function : Enterprise Solutions

Reports to : Director – IT Innovation

Work location : Bangalore

Main accountabilities :

- Provide support to R&D Business in driving clarity of business requirements, high level design, cost and time estimates to facilitate the production of high quality charters.

- Take responsibility during feasibility and capability phases for the translation of business requirements into a functional specification and specific work packages for call-off from service design and service introduction functions.

- Work in close partnership with Release Management and with Programme Directors to ensure on-time and on-budget execution & delivery of application changes or introductions for key projects and programmes.

- Ensure Technical and Security standards established by S&T are implemented and adhered to during design and implementation

- Specify packages of work to be called-off from the individual service towers (through the service design function) and creating project request form (PRF/PMERF) for work packages from application delivery partners. And ensuring timely delivery of these deliverables with IT suppliers (external and internal).

- Create clear conceptual designs for each project or change that will deliver the business requirements, balanced with the need for simplicity, reusability, lowest possible TCO and alignment to IT Destination Architecture, CoE Design Guidelines and Global Information Standards.

- QA’ing (and challenging) business requirements documentation delivered by process owners; ensuring that these are completed to the appropriate standard and level of detail and clarity.

- Discuss the priority and sequence of changes linked to specific releases, working with the Release Management organization to agree these.

- Create clear conceptual designs for each project or change that will deliver the business

- requirements, balanced with the need for simplicity, reusability, lowest possible TCO and alignment to IT

- Destination Architecture, CoE Design Guidelines and Global Information Standards.

- Communication planning and stakeholder management will be key and has to be managed in this role.

- Understanding of various tools, accelerators, methodology related to SAP PLM and R&D business process will be required.

- Best Practice Identification and Adoption for Unilever Convergence Program

- Process Analysis and fit-for-purpose design

- Managing large teams that do not directly report to this position from Process Excellence, IT, Vendors.

- Building solutions , templates and approach notes as part of overall convergence agenda which can be adopted as part of live projects

- Develop a good understanding of future technology and architecture directions, including the opportunities for new functionality and reduced TCO created by these.

Relevant Skills & Experience :

- Strong Techno-Functional experience of 5 to 12 years on SAP – PLM (Product Life cycle Management)

- End-to-End Product Life Cycle management

- Business analysis experience

- Proposal development, Testing & Training

- Global stakeholder management

- Excellent business communication skills

- Industry domain exposure to any one of FMCG, Energy, Utilities, Food Processing

- BE / B.Tech with MBA from premier institutions

Desired Skills & Experience :

- Oracle Agile PLM, Windchill PLM, Siemens Teamcentre NX, Enovia PLM