SAP Planning & Scheduling Functional Expert

About the job

Our Team:

Sanofi is globally deploying its new back-office cross-functional system processes - covering Finance, SBS, Supply Chain and Trade across all GBUs - through the implementation of a Global ERP (iSHIFT project) using SAP S4/HANA technology.

Job Summary:

In this context, we are reinforcing our SAP Center Of Excellence with a Digital SAP production planning & scheduling functional analyst.

• The SAP planning & scheduling functional analyst will participate to the implementation of Business Value Project (BVP) and / or enhancements of the CORE solution. He/She may also be participating to deploy projects at Sanofi sites according to the program roadmap.

• She/He ensures the optimal usage of the solution for the domain of planning & scheduling in integration with other SAP streams purchasing, quality, master data management and supply chain integration.

Responsibilities :

Business Alignment and Solution ownership

• Analyse As-Is situation of business processes

• Based on Sanofi’s global ERP template solution identify and apply core model processes to the receiving manufacturing sites to maximize business value

• Support all stages of data migration activities for planning domain

• Ensure integrated process design, including process integration between the LOB’s within S4/HANA as well as system integration with external connected systems

• Create test cases and perform functional unit and integration tests

• Support key users in the User Acceptance Test

• Contribute to planning and execution of go-live preparation, cutover and hypercare tasks for their domain

Organizational change management

• Support identification of change impacts to the end users’ ways of working

• Define actions to help facilitate the business organization with the changes in business processes

• Train the key users in the new business processes and the new S/4 core model solution

• Promote the core model solution with the business stakeholders and users

• Provide advice and support to improve efficiency of cross-functional practices

Data management

• Working with key users to support activities to cleanse data in the legacy systems and prepare them for extraction and load into the new S4/HANA environment

• Working with the business and technical teams to support data extraction from legacy systems based on data requirements for the new S4/HANA solution

• Working with the business and the functional-technical teams to support data migration activities from legacy systems into the new solution

Cut-over and Go-Live

• Identify cutover steps for their domain to contribute to the creation of a cutover plan

• Execute the cut over activities for their domain. Support key users in the execute of business cutover tasks.

• Support the site during the hypercare phase to stabilize the new solution

Ongoing support

• Support further stabilization efforts post hypercare

• Lead value improvement activities to ensure maximum value generation of implemented solutions.

• As the Sanofi S4/HANA Core Model template evolves over time, lead initiatives to ‘retrofit’ future improvements to live sites

People Management

• Communicate in transparencies with his/her fellow co-worker and management

• Contribute to the transfer of know-how, experience and best practices within his/her domain and beyond

About you

Education

• Graduated from Engineering school or Business school

• Master’s degree

Experience & knowledge

• Minimum 5 years of work experience in SAP which include 2-3 years in S/4 Hana as solution designer

• Proven experience of planning Processes in SAP managed industrial plants

• Significant experience on planning and scheduling for Manufacturing in SAP (SAP PP)

• Experience in Life Science industries would be a plus

Core competencies

• Planning & Scheduling business processes and relevant SAP solutions (PP, MM, S4HANA, Fiori )

• Experience in agile project approach (JIRA experience a plus)

• Ability to challenge processes and practices, open minded and active listening

• Knowledge of pharma industry regulatory context (GxP)

• Deep project management skills with capacity to adapt to a changing environment

• Ability to collaborate and build effective networks inside and outside Sanofi

• Strong capability to impact and influence, negotiation skills and conflict management

• Service/Customer mindset

• Accountability, reliability

• Excellent communication skills

• Fluent in English (verbal, written)

• French speaking would be a plus

• PPDS knowledge would be a plus

What makes this position unique

• Sanofi’s strategic direction is to harmonize and standardize business processes and to embrace the digital transformation of DIGITAL Industrial Affairs organizational unit. A key pillar of this digital transformation is the transition from SAP ECC to S4/HANA.

• As part of the Hyderabad ERP Delivery team the candidate has the opportunity to join Sanofi’s journey towards digitalization and to shape the business solution for the future by implementing a global S4/HANA digital core.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

• Based in Hyderabad, this job requires to collaborate in a global and matrixial environment with international business and digital teams

• English is the usual working language

• This job requires periodic business trips to digital or industrial locations

• This job requires to work within structured environments with formal procedures, deliverables, compliance rules and reporting duties

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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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