Job title:SAP Manufacturing Functional Analyst

• Location: Hyderabad (Telangana) India

• Job type: Permanent

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi is globally deploying its new back-office cross-functional system processes - covering Finance, SBS, Supply Chain and Trade across all GBUs - through the implementation of a Global ERP (iSHIFT project) using SAP S4/HANA technology. This Transformation program aims at:

-Enabling Global Business Units (GBU) & Global Functions with Analytics

• Common analytics by GBU and for Global functions to improve performance and cost management

• Transversal data consolidation as well as more granular analyses

• Common budget tools by GBU

-Facilitating a seamless integration of planning and actual data setting-up automation in reporting to enable Global Shared Services (SBS)

• Support SBS strategy by implementing an end-to-end approach (e.g. P2P fully covered by integrated Group solutions from eBuy to AP Invoicing, T&E, etc.)

• Opportunity to consolidate new activities in Shared Services (e.g. Master Data Management, Credit Management) and to develop global Shared Services organization models (e.g. T&E)

• Support reporting factories

-Simplifying processes and Sanofi users’ experience

• State-of-the-art global systems ensuring an end-to-end process integration while providing a simplified user’s experience

• Major changes to reporting or processes handled centrally at once

• One source of truth on master data and a common automated internal control framework

• Improved integration or divestment capabilities through a standardized methodology

Job Summary:

In this context, we are reinforcing our COE with a Digital SAP manufacturing functional analyst.

• Focusing on S4/HANA implementations at Sanofi’s manufacturing sites, the candidate will work on the deployment and evolution of the Sanofi Core Model while ensuring process and solution harmonization and standardization.

• The suitable candidate has experience in business process design and SAP S/4/HANA implementation projects. Strong abilities in mapping best-in-class business processes onto the S4/HANA solution through configuration and master data design will be required to be successful in this role. A can-do mindset, strong customer service focus and a highly dynamic will allow the candidate to achieve outstanding results.

Main responsibilities:

The Digital SAP manufacturing functional analyst deploys the Core model at Sanofi sites according to the program roadmap. She/He ensures the optimal usage of the solution for the domain of Manufacturing in integration with Warehouse management, purchasing, Quality management and Production Planning.

Business Alignment and Solution ownership

• Analyse As-Is situation of business processes

• Based on Sanofi’s global ERP template solution identify and apply core model processes to the receiving manufacturing sites to maximize business value

• Support all stages of data migration activities for the Manufacturing domain

• Ensure integrated process design, including process integration with external connected systems

• Create test cases and perform functional unit and integration tests

• Support key users in the User Acceptance Test

• Contribute to planning and execution of go-live preparation, cutover and hypercare tasks for their domain

Organizational change management

• Support identification of change impacts to the end users’ ways of working

• Define actions to help facilitate the business organization with the changes in business processes

• Train the key users in the new business processes and the new S/4 core model solution

• Promote the core model solution with the business stakeholders and users

• Provide advice and support to improve efficiency of cross-functional practices

Data management

• Working with key users to support activities to cleanse data in the legacy systems and prepare them for extraction and load into the new S4/HANA environment

• Working with the business and and technical teams to support data extraction from legacy systems based on data requirements for the new S4/HANA solution

• Working with the business and the functional-technical teams to support data migration activities from legacy systems into the new solution

Cut-over and Go-Live

• Identify cutover steps for their domain to contribute to the creation of a cutover plan

• Execute the cut over activities for their domain. Support key users in the execute of business cutover tasks.

• Support the site during the hypercare phase to stabilize the new solution

Ongoing support

• Support further stabilization efforts post hypercare

• Lead value improvement activities to ensure maximum value generation of implemented solution

• As the Sanofi S4 Core Model template evolves over time, lead initiatives to ‘retrofit’ future improvements to live sites

People Management

• Coordinate, inform and ensure functional leader role in a matrixial context with internal resources and external partners

• Contribute to the transfer of know-how, experience and best practices within his/her domain and beyond

About you 

• Experience: 

• 8years+ work experience with minimum 3 years in S/4 HANA platform, including one significant experience as solution designer

• Significant experience of Manufacturing Processes in SAP (SAP PP)

• Experience on integration with external system would be a plus (MES)

• Experience on warehouse processes would be a plus (integration SAP PP-EWM)

• Experience in Life Science industries would be a plus

• Soft skills: 

• Deep project management skills with capacity to adapt to a changing environment 

• Ability to work in a big organization (600+ people)

• Ability to collaborate and build effective networks inside and outside Sanofi

• Accountability, reliability

• Technical skills:

• Proficiency in SAP S/4HANA PP implementation, configuration, and integration with other modules

• Solid understanding of manufacturing business processes, best practices and relevant SAP solution (PP, EWM, S4HANA, Fiori)

• Knowledge of pharma industry regulatory context (GxP)

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into functional specifications.

• IDocs/BAPIs management, interfacing of SAP with other applications and program debug

• Education: Graduated from Engineering school or Business school - Master’s degree

• Languages: Fluent in English (verbal, written) - French speaking would be a plus

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

• Based in Hyderabad, this job requires to collaborate in a global and matrixial environment with international business and digital teams

• English is the usual working language

• This job requires periodic business trips to digital or industrial locations

• This job requires to work within structured environments with formal procedures, deliverables, compliance rules and reporting duties

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