SAP SD Manager

Nipro Corporation

Mechelen, Belgium

About the role

SAP SD Manager will be a part of SAP Center of Excellence team, providing SAP services to all members of Nipro Europe Group Companies.

The person in this role has an end-to-end knowledge of several functional/technological area of SAP and corresponding business processes, but also has general knowledge and understanding of main business processes covered by SAP solutions and is able to design and implement integrated cross-functional flows.

SAP SD Manager will build up and maintain the Sales & Distribution template solution across business units and will apply their knowledge by designing, reviewing, implementing and testing solutions for the business in the corresponding area, but also by challenging and enhancing partner's solutions.

What you'll do

SAP projects 60%

Act as template keeper during projects: protect and enforce the template and contribute to template development based on gained experience of roll out projects.
Organize and execute fit-gap analysis for template rollout projects, capturing and documenting gaps.
Propose and develop, where necessary, solutions to gaps.
Provide accurate task estimations and follow the project implementation schedule.
Keep the project manager informed about project progress and issues.

SAP maintenance and support 20%

Identify and implement solutions in the SD area related to an evolving regulatory environment, business development and simplification initiatives;
Provide support and assistance to users, diagnose and resolve system issues in cooperation with external SAP partners;
Identify recurring issues, analyze and propose solutions for the root cause;
Align solutions to SAP release and project / support schedules;
Optimize the system usage and help the business to use the application in a more efficient way;
Maintain the template solution;
Manage support of the assigned functional area, keeping track of AMS team tasks, performance, actual efforts vs estimations etc.;
Assess content, analyze impact and approve transport requests ready for production deployment in their functional area;
Assess, approve and follow up emergency access requests related to the assigned functionality.

Organization and Processes 20%

Analyze existing processes and suggest improvements basing on their experience and vision;
Document changes according to the change management policy;
Transfer to key users the necessary knowledge be able to use the application in a correct manner;
Create user manuals and maintain the knowledge base;
Help key users to test the system and to realize system acceptance;
Set priorities appropriately, ensure that work outputs of the assigned area's team are timely and of the highest quality.

What you'll need

You obtained a Bachelors or a Masters Degree in Business Management, IT or Finance;
You have at least 3 years of SAP SD experience (Contracts, Quotes, Orders, Intercompany, Export, Consignment, Pricing, Delivery process, Billing);
Having SAP S/4HANA experience is an asset;
Demonstrated ability to integrate (end to end) with other SAP modules (FI/CO, MM, PP);
You’re able to communicate and translate IT talks into business language;
You have excellent planning & organization skills;
You have a proactive and out of the box mindset;
Being able to read/debug ABAP and (if needed) provide minor coding changes is an asset;
SDLC - hands-on experience through phases of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) from analysis, to designing, customizing (configuring), testing, data mapping/conversion, performance tuning and documentation;
You demonstrate flexibility and mobility to optimize contact with the different business units and entities;
You are able to work effectively and efficiently toward goals in a complex, diverse environment with multiple and changing demands;
Translating business requirements into a strategical project-plan is your key strength;
Languages: English is a must, any other language is a plus.