Job Details

Position Summary

• As a Senior PLM Analyst, this role will provide knowledge on SAP PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) functionality and best practices, execute solution delivery, assist in prioritization and meeting business requirements, work with technical teams to resolve discrepancies and map out technical processes, ensure support coverage for critical processes and develop a plan to further grow the skills of team analyst.
• This customer facing role is responsible for supporting, maintaining/developing and providing functional system solutions for the R&D organization processes globally for Personal Care.
• Activities of this role include working closely with business customers, understanding their processes and helping them map those processes to IT applications, executing functional changes in SAP, coordinate technical changes with peer groups within IT, document and communicate changes to user organization, support and provide leadership in change management.
  

Accountabilities

• Leads the implementation and provides project management expertise in collaboration and partnership with the business
  
• Anticipates customer challenges and proposes solutions
  
• Actively contributes to the development of business process flows, functional specifications and test cases
  
• Collaborate with representatives of other IT/ functional areas to ensure end to end process integration and consistency
  
• Interfaces with vendors to understand whether vendor products will meet business requirements
  
• Maintains up-to-date awareness of the current and future directions of the industry and associated technologies, and, where appropriate, makes recommendations for implementation of new/upgraded systems and technologies
  
• Develop business relationships and integrate activities with other IT areas to ensure successful implementation of IT projects
  
• Completes requirements identification and fit-gap analysis
  
• Develop and/or approve teamâ??s functional specifications
  

Required Skills And Experience

• Bachelor??s degree in Information Systems or related field
  
• The selected candidate should have at least 5-7 years of successful support and/or implementation of SAP PLM functionality for Process and/or Discrete Manufacturing businesses
  
• Proven experience in configuring and implementing Recipe Development, Specification Management, Document Management (DMS)
  
• Ability to articulate and present different points-of-views on various technologies
  
• Time management skills are a must; as well as the ability to be flexible and creative
  
• Business process analysis and redesign experience: strong business analysis skills; process mapping; business process redesign and implementation
  

Preferred Skills And Experience

• SAP SPRC Product & Reach Compliance
  
• SAP EH&S
  
• SAP QM
  
• SAP ECTR