SAP Functional Manager - OTC

About Diageo:

Diageo is the world s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of ambitious individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and build innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life.

Who we are:

The Digital & Technology vision is to lead the way in the transformation of Diageo business capabilities, demonstrating data & digital technology, to build a driven edge in the marketplace.

Diageo is embarking on an exciting and significant Business Transformation Programme underpinned by SAP S/4 HANA. Through this programme Diageo strives to drive process and data standardization and simplification. This programme will be delivered over a multi-year period with global geographic reach.

We are looking for SAC Deployment lead to join our Voyager Reporting & Analytics team in building innovative products that enterprises don t just use, but love. Our team is motivated by crafting, building and releasing products that our customers, pushing the boundaries of what s possible for making a better working world. You will work closely with engineering, QA, UX, and business teams to deliver highly available SAP technology solutions across the globe.

The SAP Senior Specialists support the SAP Centre of Excellence (SAP CoE) and the Business Partners of each area who are accountable for the delivery of business strategic change programmes, driving value through common processes and global ways of working across Diageo in a more consistent and efficient manner, improving the benefits that SAP tools like ECC, APO or BW bring to the organization.

This role will support the standardisation and automation of the process streams led by DBS and will be responsible for the execution of the analysis, design and overall end to end delivery of Application Changes in SAP and supporting the Business Partners in delivering the IS agenda for their streams.

Significant cross-functional working is required, particularly across IS, Governance, End to End Commercial, Source to Pay, Financial Controlling, Procurement and Supply to continue the great steps forward that have been achieved in recent years. The SAP Specialists will need to work across these areas, in addition to DBS and all in market companies, by connecting with the global communities to facilitate changes in the process and ongoing improvements.

This role will support the delivery of changes in the OTC (Order to Cash) in the SAP Functional CoE. This covers areas like Order management, Shipping, Billing & Returns processes . The chosen person will need to have a very strong background in SAP ECC in these modules as well as knowledge of these modules in SAP S4HANA.

The role will work in partnership with the project team and other resources from the SAP CoE.

Purpose of Role

The purpose of this role is

• To participate in the end-to-end delivery of changes in Order to Cash.
• To support current & future projects in the SAP ECC SD
• To bring experience in SAP S4HANA To add knowledge of SAP Fiori apps To support the Business Partner or the Project Manager/Programme Director, leading in the areas of functionality, process, information and data analysis within this area
• To become a subject matter expert in their process area bringing competitive and industry best practise analysis and provide recommendation for specific investment in collaboration with the process experts
• Interact with external partners working on delivering SAP changes which could include technical resources (e.g. coders) and testers
• Provide when called upon domain expertise to the business and project team
• To support continued improvement within the area process through an efficient and effective delivery by meeting targets on time, defect free, solutions

Qualifications and Experience Required

12+ years of specific experience and expertise in SAP sales and distribution area and associated business processes and functionalities

• Functional and technical Expertise in SAP SD ECC/ S4 HANA
• Strong integration experience with FI-MM, FI-CO Integrations
• Experience in Preparing/Understanding Functional Specifications, Design documents and partnering with ABAP team to deliver WRICEF
• Expertise in SAP S4HANA and especially in migrating from SAP ECC to SAP S4HANA
• Hands on experience in condition contract management (CCM), FSCM.
• Good exposure in interfacing portal sales/ EDI orders/ 3PL integration with SAP
• Extensive experience in crafting custom reports in SAP (Mandatory)
• Good exposure working on complex improvements, knowledge of in debugging.
• Integration of SAP with external systems, through flat files, IDOCs, custom XML, RFCs, BAPIs and APIs (Mandatory).
• Drives Unit, System Integration, Regression Testing. Ability to coordinate UAT workshops.
• Knowledge in deploying and crafting SAP Fiori apps
• Good Business Partnering skills
• Experience of working on and delivering projects with multiple partners
• Ability to collaborate with multiple customers
• Knowledge and expertise of IT methodologies like Waterfall, PRINCE2 and/or Agile for delivering projects
• Good Communication