Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

The manager would be responsible for driving strategic IT solution design and deployment of key enterprise technology, with a strong focus on enterprise ERP - Sap ECC and S4 HANA implementation and migration, Warehouse rationalizations, Transportation and Logistics automation and MDM rationalization.  

Program and Project management 

·         Lead the design, development, deployment, and end to end delivery for complex supply chain and finance transformation projects across SAP, SaaS and new age tech solutions. 

·         Work with stakeholders’ team on developing key performance indicators and objectives to ensure a global optimization of any business requirement  

·         Monitor the IT roadmap definition by working in close collaboration with the business and IT teams, and challenging all of them on business requirements, IT capabilities and overall consistency  

·         Owning the IT project pipeline, managing all aspects of project life cycle to delivery. 

·         Anticipate, investigate, and monitor proactively the overall business demand pipeline in terms of IT services and product cost and assess the interdependencies both technical and business. 

·         Establish detailed project plans and metrics, work plans, schedules, resource plans and status reports 

·         Managing proactively the project risks and issues and defining the appropriate mitigation strategy and remediation plans respectively 

·         Define and drive program steering activities (risk management, costs) to update the hierarchy on the progress of the projects. 

·         Define the implementation strategy of the program/project and supervise the change management activities including resourcing, budgeting, training, user support and communication. 

·         Manage Post go live support and run activities with vendor partners. 

SAP Expertise 

·         Proven expertise on at least 2 SAP S4 transformation and implementation projects. 

·         Subject matter expertise on SAP modules SD, MM, WM, FICO 

·         Deep understanding of Material Master and MDM dependencies on all SAP modules. 

·         Knowledge on Indian landscape-based financial processes. GST, E-Way bill, invoicing 

·         Functional knowledge on business processes in S4 – Planning, Order Management, Pricing, Logistics, Delivery Management.  

·         Understanding of Integration interfaces Idocs, LSMW, SFTPs, BAPIs BDCs, RICEFW 

·         Upstream integrations of ERP with 3P systems like Planning (IBP, O9, APO), WMS (Manhattan, SAP) and TMS (SAP, Pando) Solutions 

·         Benchmarking knowledge on existing and emerging ERP and related new technologies. 

Supply Chain Domain Expertise 

·         Good understanding on supply chain processes - Supply and Demand Planning, Master Data Management, Procurement, Warehousing, Transportation & logistics. 

·         Knowledge on warehouse automation and redesign solutions for track and trace. 

·         Market understanding of CPG logistics automation solutions for India. 

·         Working knowledge on impacting processes in Sales, Finance and controlling. 

·         Market understanding and benchmarking of new age technologies for automating and digitizing of supply chain processes. (e.g., AI/ML and RPA based S&OP)