SAP COE Purchasing Domain Leader

Our Team:

This role sits within the SAP Center of Expertise team at Consumer Healthcare (CHC) Digital. We are a dynamic team passionate about accompanying Sanofi CHC through its most exciting and challenging journey as it seeks to become a fully carved in P&L within Sanofi.

We are a team composed of professionals that come from different backgrounds, both internal and external to Sanofi. We believe in our team’s mission, accountability, a team spirit supportive of each other and a profound respect for diversity.

We are seeking to construct a best in class digital organisation, where the ERP will be a solid and adaptive backbone of our systems and our supporting functions applications are innovation technology solutions that give our business the (digital) wings to fly everyday! Interested to know more? Contact  us!

We are looking forSAP techno-functional profilewho ensures that the SAP system remains robust, secure, and aligned with business objectives while facilitatingsmooth system evolutions and minimizing disruptions during changes.

Main responsibilities:

• Own change request portfolio forPurchasing and Master Data domain.

• Assess the impact of SAP changes on existing business processes and system functionalitiesand ensure no disruption in business continuity.

• Identify and assess risks associated with changes and develop mitigation strategies.

• Work with SAP release manager and relevant stakeholders to ensure SAP releases includes right sequence of changes.

• Identifyopportunities to optimize business processes through system enhancements and changes and deliver.

• Manage relationship with implementation partner(s) and internal teams.

• Work with SAP tooling team tohave continuous improvement for all tooling involved in SAP change management such as JIRA, Confluence,SAP Solution Manager, Soldoc.

• Ensure that proper testing (unit, integration, and user acceptance testing)and quality documentation is provided by change implementation partners such as SAP AMS (Application Management Services), SAP Projects teams and other internal/external stakeholders.

• Conduct through testing (unit, integration, and user acceptance testing) to ensure changes do not introduce errors or negatively impact existing functionalities.

• Act as Level 3 support for Application Management Services, troubleshoot issues that arise from system changes.

• Support Application Management Services organization regularly to accelerate incident resolution and change implementation.

• Participate in Critical/Major Incidents: Respond to critical or major incidents, utilizingexpertise to analyse and promptly resolve incidents, minimizing business impact.

• Promote the use of SAP best practices in configuration and customization to ensure consistency and maintainability.Animating community of expertise with SAP Business solutions teams.

About you 

Experience: 

• 8+ years doing ERP delivery in a business-oriented context, preferably in an FMCG global company Solid experiences in implementing and maintainingPurchasing and Master Dataprocesses with SAP ERP systems as a MM - MDM expert.

• Solid understanding of integrating SAP with business partner systems such as suppliers, etc.

• Solid configuration experience, ability to determine when to use configuration vs. code as well as good troubleshooting skills.

• Knowledge of SAP S4 HANA is plus.

• Ability to translate functional specifications into technical design documents, support the construction of efforts and cost estimates, and manage delivery the desired functionality

• Project management experience; continuous improvement skills and mindset 

• Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design and management

• At ease with Microsoft Office tools, and in general with IS tools.

• Conceptual and analytical thinking – ability to extract, analyze, and document complex business and technical requirements or strategies.

Soft skills: 

• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills

• Demonstrated conflict resolution & problem-solving skills in a global environment

• Strong appetite to learn and discover, entrepreneur mindset

• Adaptable and open to change

• Team player, service-oriented

• Analytical and synthetic, able to formalize solutions, good writing skills

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Strong leadership, autonomy and results driven

• Role model our 4 values: teamwork, integrity, respect, courage

Education: Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) or equivalent in Information Technology or Engineering

Languages: Fluent spoken and written English

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people. 

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity. 

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