Job Title:
Corporate SAP IBP Application Specialist
About the Role:
The SAP IBP application specialist oversees support across sites in the EMEA region and ensures consistent improvements of existing target system(s), including implementation of new functionality across such systems. This role is a combination of Business Consulting and Solution Delivery, focusing on delivering value at stake as a #1 project outcome.
Key Job Accountabilities:
1. Maintenance and evolution of SAP IBP Templates
2. SAP IBP Template's maintenance and evolutions
* Provide support up to L3 for corrections to issues raised by Helpdesk or Demand Managers.
* Schedule and monitor periodic jobs in the planning and forecast cycle.
3. Project Management
* Ensure solution implementation on time, in full, within budget.
* Contribute to document process map and roll-out kit.
* Key user training.
* Accountable to follow the defined project methodology.
4. Existing Instances Support (Business Applications)
* Solutions Architect
* Process key-user requests or issues following the internal governance process: specification of new developments or customizing, update or proposal of user working instruction, guidelines on the day-to-day use of the solution, training of key users.
* Create transport requests in development and follow the issue till the closing of the request from the user.
* Customizing and program specification.
* Animate information sharing across sites to take advantages of the SAP IBP usage to avoid duplicated development and study.
5. Methodological Compliance
* Ensures project methodology (industrial approach) is understood, applied, and optimized continuously.
* Continuous improvement of the roll-out kit for own domain.
Major Challenges & Complexities:
This role will involve introducing/reinforcing standardized work, developing and deploying standard processes, KPIs, governance, dealing with complex business environments with regular changes to the scope, different stakeholder goals, global and local approaches, distributed teams with varying skill sets and customer culture/approach, multi-tasking and setting priorities, ensuring alignment and respect across the BU.
Qualifications/Requirements:
* SAP IBP Demand Planning and S&OP module experience, including CPI-DS and APO.
* Familiarity with SAP IBP PLM module advantageous.
* Experience in SAP PP and MM modules.
* Active participation in multiple SAP IBP implementations across industries.
* IT experience, including Project Management; some management experience preferred.
* Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.
* Fluent in English.
* Solid understanding of industrial site processes.
* Experienced in international SAP IBP projects, office tools, and planning PC tools.
* Expertise in requirements modeling, software development methods, metrics, user interface design principles, and formalizing functional specifications.
* Knowledgeable in training needs analysis methodologies and testing processes.