Cargill Business Services - SAP Solution Specialist

Position Purpose & Summary :

- Govern the design, build and test activities of partners for the SAP deployments in the instance.

Principal Accountabilities :

- Provide technical oversight to partners for all the work related to deployments in the Commercial stream. Fully familiar with Solution design principles.

- Create solution designs across process, data, and technology that meet business requirements and adhere to relevant standards and principles, leverage common tools and processes, and meet cost/delivery objectives

- Perform reviews with key stakeholders throughout the design lifecycle to ensure alignment on solution designs and requirements. This may include but is not limited to the following activities: design reviews, testing execution, deployment verifications, customer satisfaction reviews, etc.

- Create supporting solution design documentation to ensure sustainment of the solution and business capability, support solution implementation as necessary

- Identify issues relating to missing or misinterpreted business requirements, so that corrective actions can be developed and applied accordingly

- Advocate quality of solutions that meet or exceed defined business requirements

- Guide solution options and business partner decision making to minimize the amount of project investment divergence from target architecture

Analysis & Requirements Gathering :

- Assess Business Unit/Function needs, clearly eliciting, translating, and documenting business, functional and non-functional requirements

- Facilitate requirements discussions with key stakeholders

- Communicate and clarify the requirements to the design and development resources

- Collaborate with the key project SMEs and stakeholders to define project requirements and change requests

- Analyze and interpret data and information to guide process and solution decisions

- Plan for acceptance of solution (change management, communication, training needs)

- Assist in translating business requirements into functional design specifications

- Contribute to innovation and digitization by upskilling oneself in new technologies and work on adoption of these in Cargill.

- Other Project Delivery Responsibilities (may include some or all of the following)

- Manage workload and priorities to deliver agreed upon project milestones

- Prepare and execute test plans

- Prepare and execute training of users and operations teams

- Provide guidance and architectural oversight during requirements, design, build, and test phases

- Work across architecture domains to identify and resolve issues and manage inter-dependencies between integration points

- Assist in the selection of employees and provide input on future workforce needs

- Provide subject matter expertise in one or more system or application

Relationship Management :

- Build strong relationships with global stakeholders and be identified as SME in Commercial area.

- Create and maintain long-term working relationships with technology teams, functional counterparts, vendors and business partners

- Engage and influence business sponsors and users and contribute to their targeted business outcomes

- Engage and influence developers to ensure productivity and solution quality

- Act as a coordinator to ensure infrastructure requirements are implemented

- Champion collaboration and enable delivery in team environment

Education, Experience, Skills :

Required Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

- 6+ years of SAP Design and Implementation experience in SAP MII & SAP PP-PI/QM/MM

- Good functional knowledge of manufacturing execution or/and supply chain execution process

- Must have participated in at least 2 end to end successful MII implementation

Technical skills :

- Web development with an emphasis on Java Script

- SAP UI5

- Database - SQL or Oracle

- Experience in scoping, requirements gathering/definition, Solution Design, Testing etc.

- Proven record of interacting with the functional teams at different levels

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to communicate technical and business information effectively to both technical and non-technical people.

- Proven conflict resolution skills

- Ability to understand our business, work across business units, be a team player and enjoy working in a team-oriented environment.

- Experienced working with ambiguity

- Strong problem solving/decision-making skills.

- Experience leading and influencing others, including senior level personnel

- Established skills in identifying and developing strategies to address change management issues.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Shop Floor experience including MOM mapping

- Good knowledge of SAP interface with different MES Applications including Weighbridge, Uniwin, Actemium, Savigent, Bartender, GLIMS or similar MES applications

- Historian experience preferred

Other relevant information to the position :

Examples may include: Career benefits; development an individual can gain by serving in this role; People Leadership (if applicable); Observable behaviors that encompass the applied knowledge, skills and attributes that distinguish and drive superior performance.

- Career Development - The role has opportunity to progress as a Workstresm Lead.

- Project demands may from time to time require work during non-standard business hours. An example would be during a system implementation at a plant which can only happen during scheduled downtime

- Not more than 25% travel expected. Only short terms travel occasionally possible.