
SAP Extended Warehouse Management Specialist
Bengaluru, KarnatakaAt Takeda, we are guided by our purpose of creating better health for people and a brighter future for the world. Every corporate function plays a role in making sure we — as a Takeda team — can discover and deliver life-transforming treatments, guided by our commitment to patients, our people and the planet.
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Job Description
OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE
- Help to develop and maintain strategy for the product line – ERP Extended Warehouse Management by proactively identifying changes in business and the technology landscape, that would impact the ERP portfolio and developments throughout the lifecycle.
- Be accountable for small enhancements and change requests in the area of SAP EWM
- Partner with leaders within business and countries, possess strong knowledge of both business and technology, to drive ERP solutions to harmonization, optimization and operational excellence of the ERP Services.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Define the vision and strategy for product line capabilities, in accordance with business and technology priorities.
- Small Enhancements and Change Requests: The consultant will be responsible for managing and implementing small enhancements and change requests within the SAP ERP EWM module
- Deadline Management: Ensuring that all tasks and demands are completed within the agreed deadlines.
- Communication: Maintaining effective communication with business stakeholders to understand their requirements and provide updates on progress.
- Oversee the productive and ongoing exchanges of information between the SME, user community, demand & release management, country deployment and Product Services.
- Ensure alignment with Business Process Owners and IT Business Partners to drive engagement, process design, prioritization and deployment support across the respective areas.
- Partner with countries and key business stakeholders to lead the identification of changes in business and the initial drafting of end user stories.
- Provides leadership in identifying and solving complex problem impacting global disciplines on a global level and oversees implementations and implications to be solved.
- Lead the final definition of user requirements, user stories, specifications and the update/review of Design Papers and process flows. Working closely with the key business and IT stakeholders and third-party providers to deliver new application solutions and enhancements to existing applications.
- Drive consultation of architects, key business stakeholders, third party software and service providers and IT management in design, planning, integration, expansion, problem determination and resolution.
- Act as the ‘go to’ person for stakeholders and liaison/driver for business community. Possess strong knowledge of both business and technology regarding ERP solutions and developments.
- Influence others to lead and solve high complex problems with a global impact on the business and interprets ways of prioritizing opportunities to streamline business and/or layered system processes
- Have defined and unique authority, oversee, manage and develop the SME’s by defining clear roles and responsibilities, but also following HR performance management methodology and conducts team and stakeholder evaluations.
- Take ownership for innovation through sustain, product release & strategy, including third party providers.
- Challenge existing best practices, drive and lead the development of business cases - included ROI/KPI frameworks - to support, improve and/or transform business operations, processes and strategies.
- Actively engage with the release and engagement teams, major programs ensuring active adoption and deployment of product line capabilities. Support active engagements and continuous improvement as required
- Drive investigations, gain support, and implement emerging technologies that can provide business value to Takeda.
- Ensure ongoing operations and run for Product Line area in collaboration with the product delivery services
- Manage and provide visible leadership to the teams, demand, IT portfolio’s and initiatives; and creates a positive work environment.
CORE ELEMENTS RELATED TO THIS ROLE
- Be part of the Product Line Strategy and roadmap for Product Line – Extended Warehouse Management
- Provide Engage with countries and stakeholder to collect end user stories and requirements
- Work and be responsible for the small enhancements and change requests in the EWM area
- Demand deployment and product line capabilities adoption
- Innovation and continuous improvement
- Key stakeholders are business process owners, country leads, leads within the ERP Product Management Group and IT Business Leaders.
EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:
Required:
- Minimum 3 years of SAP functional, configuration and/or development experience with Bachelor’s Degree,
- Minimum 3 years supporting business functions: Extended Warehouse Management.
- Strong technical / application development skills.
- Ability to communicate ideas and data both verbally and written in a persuasive and appropriate manner.
- Ability to analyze a wide variety of data and make appropriate decisions.
- User Centricity at the core
- Ability to set priorities, develop workflow processes and manage business and provider relationships.
- Experience with implementing major third-party systems (i.e. MES, AWS).
- Extensive experience with SDLC methodology and the validation process, including writing deliverables for validated systems.
- Experience with working with multiple teams across a matrixed organization to implement solutions.
Desired:
- Knowledge and experience of the Life Science industry
- Experience with Agile/Lean methodologies
- Takeda Operations – comprehensive understanding of Takeda’s operating structure and methods, including a thorough knowledge of the foreign-owned parent company a plus.
- SAP certification within EWM module and/or technology desired.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- Travel Requirements – The position will require international travelling due to the global nature of the position (anticipate 20-30%).
Locations
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