Sap Business Analyst – Pp/Qm

Role: SAP Business Analyst – PP/QM

Location: Bridgewater, NJ - Hybrid

Duration: Long Term

Position Summary:

The ERP PL team provides end-to-end Supply Chain solutions aligned with strategic goals of the organization to deliver innovative value to our customers.

The Product Analyst will support Business and IT partners to design and build new capabilities and/or enhancements to ERP product, platform, or features/applications focusing on Manufacturing/QM processes to support business initiates. The Product Analyst is expected to understand Supply Chain business processes and work closely with the business partners to deliver technology backlog supporting the business process, manage demand planning, analysis, prioritization, and execution and ensure quality for IT process capabilities for ERP Product line.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

Process & technology leadership –

• Negotiate with the business to prioritize the backlog based on capacity, business value and priority.
• Partner with business and IT partners to understand business drivers, strategic direction, and set priorities.
• Be a technology partner with expertise in Manufacturing and Quality Management and good understanding on Order to Cash (E Commerce, Retail, Distribution and Warehouse Management), working with Business and Technology partners/SMEs to identify unmet needs, shape business demand, and propose new solutions.
• Tracks progress of product development and define capability roadmaps to ensure business needs & objectives are accounted/aligned.
• Explaining the business ask, intent, process, and requirements to technical team members to drive build and test of functionality.
• Interface and handle relationships across teams, proactively match business needs with existing ERP technology capability, driving adoption of core system and highlighting value in a business context.
• Writes, manages, and refines user stories while defining clear acceptance criteria
• Reports back to the business on status of the delivery of features, functionality, and applications.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good understanding on Order to Cash, E Commerce, Distribution, and Warehouse management business processes including planning and procurement
• Experience to drive the requirements and Technical design discussions with business and IT teams
• Minimum of 3 full life cycle SAP implementations in Manufacturing and Quality management including integration knowledge with SD, MM, Inventory Management, Finance modules
• Strong Knowledge in SAP PP/QM modules
• Ability to translate business requirements into Technical Epics/Stories. Experience working across multiple levels of business and IT stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in working with interfaces involving external manufacturing and warehouse management systems
• Experience of implementing SAP PP and QM in the Pharmaceutical / Healthcare is preferred
• Experience working with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) methodology, and strong understanding of GxP and SOX compliance processes and documentation
• Demonstrated strong sense of urgency in completing deliverables, excellent written and oral communication skills, strong negotiating/ influencing skills, self-starter with excellent interpersonal skills are required.