Domain Product Owner – Planning & Purchasing ATHENA PLATFORM

• Location: Barcelona

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi is hiring key contributors to onboard Sanofi Digital transformation journey and to transform its worldwide SAP footprint. SAP Athena is considered as the most critical asset to operate the Sanofi industrial network (45 sites) and to support the industrial performance for the next decade.

The core solution consists in an SAP ERP ECC with 7 production systems integrated with more than 90 different partners, that through has that has just been migrated on SAP HANA Platform.

The SAP Domain Product Owner is a member of the Product Team that is building, supporting, maintaining, and enhancing the SAP Athena platform, with the support of Sanofi Digital-tech services and global contractors.

Main responsibilities:

We are seeking a skilled and experienced SAP Product Owner Planning & Purchasing to join our product team. You will play a vital role in providing expert guidance and act as a technical solution guardian.

Business Alignment and Value 

• Help the business to understand and adopt the standard core model to generate industrial excellence.
• Facilitate the assessment and the prioritization of the new functionalities, for all Sanofi GBUs, while keeping a responsible approach in term of costs, benefits, standardization, and maintainability.
• Deliver new features and functionalities and support their deployments.

Product foundations and Business continuity

• In charge of the functional and technical design of the solution for the SAP Quality domain, leveraging the technological and methodological assets of our SAP platforms.
• Support the lifecycle of the solution, for his/her domain, in collaboration with our global contracted services (incident escalation, evolutive and corrective maintenance).
• Support the integration with the other partner systems, related to the Planning and Purchasing domains such as analytics tools, global Demand management tools, Detailed Scheduling applications, Supplier Collaboration platform, etc.
• Ensure the design complies with Sanofi standards, GxP, Sox and cybersecurity regulations.
• Communicate architecture and technical matters in an understandable way to various stakeholders, facilitate decision making.
• Propose innovative approaches to streamline our service delivery model and efficiency.

Resources Management 

• Animate a community of functional experts and business contributors around SAP Planning and Purchasing domains.
• Contribute to circulate the know-how, experience, and best practices within the Planning and Purchasing domains and beyond.

About you

Education

• Graduated from engineering, computer science, or Digital school
• Master’s degree

Experience and Skills

• 10+ years, Demonstrate an excellent track in best practice as SAP solution designer for the SAP Purchasing (MM) and Production Planning (PP) modules.

• Significant experience of processes for manufacturing plants, pharmaceutical or life sciences industry

• General knowledge on SAP architectures and integration/interface technologies such as EAI, iDoc, Webservices, etc.
• Knowledge of pharma industry regulatory context (GxP) and computerized system validation
• At ease with Microsoft Office tools, ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, SAP Me, and in general with IT tools.
• SAP certification is a plus

Soft skills

• Team player, Lead Together
• Be Bold
• Aim Higher
• Dynamic, results driven
• Able to convince
• Accountability and Reliability
• Rigorous, autonomous
• Proactive, excellence pursuer

Languages

• Fluent spoken and written English