Senior Manager Applications

Role & responsibilities :

Applications - Transformation

• To understand the current application landscape and to collaborate with business owners to meet their requirements.
• To be a part of critical business and technology decisions pertaining to applications.
• To manage end to end the partner ecosystem supporting applications.
• To collaborate with Tech Ops , Tech Infra and BI / Reporting teams to provide a complete and coherent response to technology requirements
• To work closely with core functions such as Operations, Finance, Supply, Logistics to meet operational requirements
• The position is expected to be the complete owner of the legacy application landscape and to drive the change into a cloud based to-be landscape
• To play a key role in furthering the agenda of Commercial Tech working closely with Digital Transformation team.

• Expected to work on data transformation and governance in key business towers
• To be a part of the core S4 support team and to lead tech architecture and process mapping discussions
• To champion future applications implementations and as required
• integration with S4

Internal Stakeholders

• Supply
• Logistics
• Procurement
• Finance & Tax
• Sustainability and Agro
• New Business Development
• Corporate Communication Team
• HR
• Sales & Supply
• Marketing

External Stakeholders

• Partner organizations
• Industry Technology forums

Education level and/ or experience

• Technology / Management degree
• 5- 7 years experience in Applications ( SAP / S4 Hana )

Skills and/or knowledge

Primary necessary skills

• Project Management
• SAP S4 Hana techno functional
• Understanding of Finance / Supply Chain / Operations
• End to end Business Flows
• SQL
• Reporting Power BI / Tableau
• Exceptional documentation and presentation skills

Desirable

• Core development Java / .Net
• Appreciation of SAP focused technologies
• ABAP

S4 Tech architecture

Experience

The ideal candidate has been a part of complex ERP (S4 Hana) Implementation rollouts in which the core ERP has multiple critical integrations.

The candidate will have been part of at least two end to end implementation or transformation cycles. Should have experience in managing application deployment and development teams. Should act as the owner of the end to end application landscape.

• End to end ERP Implementations
• Experience in Core S4 Hana Modules
• Experience in Org Structure , Chart of Account structure definitions in S4 Hana
• Should have managed complex Master and Transaction Data situations..
• Strong knowledge of functional and business processes

Strong knowledge of SAP processes & reporting. Min. 5 years experience of technical setup (customizing) within SAP. Desire to work in an information systems environment, with close contact with business users

Capabilities

The candidate should be a good combination of BAU and transformation. Should be able to visualize techno business solutions and architect solutions that will be ideal for ABI Indias 10 year roadmap

Should have a passion for Simplification of business processes and for creating a wow user experience for the business user

The ideal candidate will be comfortable at with creating technology architecture with user experience and business flows enhancement at the core

Ability to document and present solutions is a key capability for this role.