Position: SAP ERP project manager
Company: Simplify
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Tasks:

Your main task will be to participate in the design, build, deployment, and post-go-live support of SAP ERP-related projects worldwide in the area of IT for sales (focus on outbound invoices) with 2 middleware Interfaces (one Merck PI Internal and one External). As a member of a business-facing Information Technology global team, you will advise project managers and stream leads, train key users, support stakeholders, and keep governance on ERP and the associated IT landscape in different business sectors and regions.

You will act as a trusted advisor in projects, being the main counterpart for consultants and technical experts, and coordinating key user activities like requirements gathering, testing, training, and master data preparation.

The role includes: informing stakeholder, guiding Project members, and being project Lead and taking care of project lead activities such as project plan, reporting on this project plan, informing stakeholders and business, understanding the initial request, communicating with the technical team, receiving status and determine a project status.

For live subsidiaries, you will manage process governance for several ERP systems, evaluating change requests and facilitating process owner decisions, as well as proposing process improvement initiatives, including key user management.

Requirements:

• You have +6 years of experience with SAP ERP for advanced Pharmaceutical / Chemical processes.
• You have a successful track as an SAP consultant who gained in-depth sales knowledge (specifically for outbound invoices) including PI/Middleware Interfaces through hands-on project deployment,
• You possess comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of the SAP sales processes (outbound invoice specific), as well as the applicable regulations
• You have a deep understanding of the respective modules in SAP, particularly O2C and Idoc and Middleware / PI Interface in several SAP versions, incl. S4/HANA
• You have a solid knowledge of master data management for customers (including the interrelation with MDG-C and K2)
• You demonstrate a robust understanding of the integration of Order to Cash processes in the overall process landscape, both from a technical point of view, as well as from a business perspective
• You are willing to travel 25% of your time depending on the project phase
• You are proficient in English, have very good communication skills, and solid abilities to teach others
• Ideally you have previous hands-on experience with different project methodologies (e.g., Agile) and tools (e.g., HPALM, JIRA)
• Ideally you have additional knowledge of other SAP modules (e.g., FI/CO) and/or other languages, especially Polish


Outline data:
Start: October 2023
Duration: approx. 12 months
Workload: approx. 20 hours/week
Location: remote 75% and on-site in Darmstadt 25%. (100% remote possible)
Language: English