SAP Techno Functional Consultant (EPPM & MRS)

The overall objective for this position is to have a strong candidate ensuring successful agile project execution and delivery in the Group Functions application landscape. Group Functions is the IT team supporting end2end the following business domain: HR, Quality, Legal & Compliance, Real Estate, Delivery, Resource management.

Nokia is currently seeking an experienced Techno Functional Consultant experienced with SAP EPPM (Enterprise Project Portfolio Management) and SAP MRS, CATS expertise and implementation experience. The EPPM/MRS consultant facilitates the upgrade, implementation and support of the Resource Management Application Suite to enhance the Nokia business functionality and overall performance, while maintaining a high degree of business satisfaction. In addition, the consultant will partner with the BG's to analyze and define business requirements, processes and objectives to scope project and deliverables for same. The consultant will implement, customize and test solutions on client system and develop client-specific enhancements to meet business requirements as needed.

Job requirements:

• A minimum of 8 - 10 years of SAP consulting experience including 2 to 3 Years experience with S/4 HANA.
• Candidates should have an expertise in at least two (ideally more) of the following solutions:
• Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management (PPM) Solution Application;
• Commercial Project Management (CPM) Solution Application;
• CATS, SAP HR, SAP Multi-Resource Scheduling (MRS) Solution Application;
• Budgeting and Planning for Telecom Sector (only the base Application and specific functional modules to support specific Project Capital and Portfolio Budgeting Processes);
• Project systems
• Experience with SAP EPPM, CATS and SAP MRS Suite business processes and various related industry experience.
• Formal SAP certification in a related application area is a plus
• ABAP development and debugging skills a plus
• Good knowledge of SAP integration to Core ECC and HR and other SAP and Non-SAP Cross domain desirable.
• Experience with SAP Implementation Methodologies (ASAP, Activate, Sprints, etc.).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively interact at all levels within client company
• Experience in working with Agile methodology / DevOps environment
• Understand current and future business goals and ongoing IT issues to ensure business success
• Experience of working within a multi-cultural environment
• Expertise in Application lifecycle management
• Expertise in Application harmonization/streamlining of landscape
• IT Technology knowledge, trends & direction
• Information security understanding
• Application / solution architecture understanding
• Self-confident, strong problem solving
• Ability to work with and communicate to a variety of audiences, executive level/peer-to-peer/ subordinate/ technical and non-technical etc.
• Education: Bachelor of Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration or related discipline.

Key Responsibilities / Functions:

• Partnership with stakeholders and pro-actively involved in the preparation, conceptualization, realization and Go Live of customer implementation projects.
• Perform feasibility studies and process design reviews
• Develop detailed plan of process implementation
• Define the IT the requirements, Blueprints, design, implement the solutions
• Develop, maintain, and test existing solutions.
• Lead industry /corporate process implementation across all related applications (SAP/non-SAP)
• Inspect and verifies the quality of the Releases before delivery
• Demonstrate profound knowledge of modelling standards and tools
• Scope, analyze and size of business requirements
• Provide recommendations within IT and to the business on RM solutions.
• Responsible the technical aspects of project implementations in close cooperation with the Nokia IT project manager and the product owners
• Responsible for completing the architecture documentation
• Supports solution deployments and executes testing and provides training to key users
• Self-organized and cross-functional
• Reporting the progress of Sprint to the Project Manager and the Product Owner as agreed
• Production support right after the move into production
• Accountable for solution design of the IT Service, aligned with Enterprise & Solution Architecture and IT service Owners
• Responsible in prototyping, pilots and PoCs