Senior Manager - SAP MM/PP - IT

Business Analysis, Business Partnership and Technical Delivery :

- Work with executive and senior leaders to creating and maintain an operating plan to achieve the strategic vision and operating platform that defines the people, processes, tools, and technology

- Act as anchor for identified major / key initiatives and align stakeholders

- Partner with business and technology partners to elicit, analyse, translate, and document business requirements into technical requirements

- Take ownership of complete lifecycle for solution delivery to business - Requirement discussion, scoping, design, delivery of customizations and custom developments, testing and adoption of business solutions based on the SAP S/4Hana and integrations.

- Collaborate with Information Security team to deliver solutions adhering to security standards

- Solve business problems by providing alternative solution approaches leveraging your functional / technical expertise.

Project Management :

- Contribute to the project management and ensure prioritization, effort assessment, planning, vendor management, tracking and control of the IT initiatives undertaken for business on latest SAP S/4Hana platform and integrations.

- Define and create project plans for project. Evaluate trade-offs between project size and complexity, cost, urgency, risk, and stakeholder value

- Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria

- Build, lead, and coach multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles

- Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities throughout the lifecycle of projects

- Assess and resolve all high priority project risks as they are encountered

- Ensure all projects adhere to project methodology standards set by the company

- Continually update relevant business stakeholder of project status

- Ensure all projects meet success parameters and ROI targets stated in business case

- Document the process change notes, keep application support run-book up-to-date, record Observations, Analysis, Action Plan (OAAP) for all relevant IT processes.

Capability/Skills :

- Expected to possess business process expertise in domain area of manufacturing, supply chain, logistics.

- Proven industry experience of working in complex, high volume, highly automated and integrated transactional environments.

- Solid understanding of SAP S/4Hana PP/PP-PI, MM, QM, PM, MRP and India localization related business processes with hands on SAP configuration experience and understanding of integrations with other modules of SAP S/4Hana.

- Familiarity with extended Supply chain execution systems and processes like PPDS, Manufacturing Execution systems (MES), Ariba Sourcing, Product costing etc.

- Exposure to both MTO and MTS business environments.

- Excellent Oral, Written Communication and Process documentation skills.

- Experienced in Minimum 2 greenfield implementation or SAP upgrade cycles, preferably as project/delivery manager.

- Demonstrated ability to manage teams in cross functional projects, including technical staff.

- Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience.

- Post-graduation in business administration (Premier B-schools shall be preferred) or Information technology-related field.