SAP Application Specialist PP (Manufacturing)

The joy of being responsible for something important.. You can experience it too

If you like to do what you love, you’ll enjoy being a part of our IT team. As an SAP Application Specialist PP at Marel you will be invaluable to our extensive growth and our focus of lowering our ecological footprint. Because of your solutions, the business is optimized and supported in its daily operations.

Your daily to-do list will look a lot like this:

• Collaborate with Business (Process owners, Process experts), other domain consultants, application architects to elaborate on the requirements.
• Build effective and productive key business stakeholder relationships.
• Early involvement in solution design and estimations.
• Understands how the IT solution supports the Business Process E2E. Has process and IT landscape expertise on Business unit level as well as functions.
• Analyze business processes and requirements and translate into IT solutions.
• Responsible to maximize the use and acceptance of standard/catalogue-based solutions to support business needs driving industry best practices processes.
• Define functional design documents
• Ongoing validation of deliverables against requirements, provide demos and workshops
• Flexibly respond to shifting business needs and priorities.
• Train business process experts and ensure availability of training and support materials.
• Prior to UAT validates that solution meets business requirements.

What you'll be doing

The functional SAP business consultant gathers business information and translates requirements/processes into IT Solutions, which will support and optimize the business in its daily operations. The business consultant is responsible for the functional design, implementation, maintain and optimizing the software. In addition, business consultants will participate in other projects and daily operations.

Who are we?

We are an international team of people for whom passion isn’t just a buzzword. We have an important goal –to create a world where quality food is produced sustainably and affordably –and we’re excited to make it happen. As world leaders in advanced food processing solutions, we’re in the unique position to transform the future of food and make a real impact –but we need individuals with diverse perspectives and skill to get there. Next to our MES software Innova and our machine control software, we’re heavily investing in our corporate IT. One of the enormous tasks ahead is implementing a greenfield S/4 HANA platform and standardizing our SAP ERP solution globally.  Within this implementation and continuous improvement of the SAP ERP software, there are several key focus areas like

• Finance
• Manufacturing processes  and plant maintenance
• Procurement - supply chain processes
• Sales and Services
• Warehouse management and Extended Warehouse management processes
• And last but certainly not least security

What’s in it for you?

 There’s nothing like the feeling you get when you do something worthwhile for a living. That said, coming home from work knowing you made a difference is just one of the great things you can experience at Marel. You can expect: 

• A culture built on trust and respect with flexible working arrangements, career growth and development opportunities.
• Freedom to take initiative and make a real impact in a growing global business
• Recognition for your achievements
• Clear objectives and realistic demands
• A global network of specialists
• Opportunities to build your knowledge
• An environment where you can explore, fail and learn

What are we looking for?

• A solution driven mentality and ability
• Result driven. Ability to create momentum based with the ultimate goal of getting things done. Shows persistency when things don’t go as expected
• Open minded
• Conceptual thinking
• Analytical and decision-making skills
• Ability to translate functional requirements into technical specifications
• Able to form, monitor and maintain constructive relationships with stakeholders
• End-user orientation on different levels
• Strong communicator with effective written and verbal skills
• Process oriented

What kind of a person are you?

You have in depth knowledge about manufacturing processes in SAP and have experience in implementing full cycle SAP PP projects. Understands business processes E2E (e.g., Procurement, Sales, Warehousing), organization and objectives and can translate these into IT solutions maximizing added value.

We encourage each of our 8,000 employees to bring their unique self to work and aim to make everyone feel recognized, valued and free to explore their potential. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture and welcome new colleagues from all walks of life. You will recognize in yourself that you:

• Do your best to help us thrive, take ownership of your work and stand behind your decisions
• Collaborate with others and remain open to new ideas
• Stay enthusiastic and focused on our mission
• Minimum a bachelor's degree in Business administration, computer science or equivalent
• Understanding business processes and translation into IT architecture
• Knowledge or interest in Agile- and scrum-development methods and S/4HANA is an advantage
• You have experience in solving complex issues within manufacturing processes in PP, preferably with SAP S/4 HANA and/or ECC.
• Functional knowledge about integrations between different applications
• Having Fiori experience is an advantage
• You were involved in at least one or more full lifecycle implementations
• You are an ambassador to standardization
• Strong English skills, both written and verbal
• Someone who’s conceptual thinker with analytical and decision-making skills
• Someone who’s a strong communicator with effective written and verbal skills

Interested?

So, if you would like to contribute to the goal of feeding the world, please get in touch by applying to this role. Should you have any questions about this position, don’t hesitate to reach out to our IT Talent Acquisition Specialist, Maarten Krepel: Maarten.krepel@marel.com

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