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Product Expert Materials Management SAP Americas

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Job Description Summary: SAP Production Planning Product Experts are specialists in the SAP Production Planning (PP) module. Product Experts provide deep functional and/or technical expertise in their specific domain. They are responsible for the design development and maintenance of their module. They are responsible for gathering clarifying business requirements and defining stories to streamline the and provide technical guidance and support to other team members.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Act as the subject matter expert to projects specific to SAP Production Planning (PP)

• Elicit requirements using interviews process reviews shadowing document analysis requirements workshops site visits business process descriptions task & workflow analysis.

• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources reconcile conflicts identify and close gaps decompose highlevel information into details abstract up from lowlevel information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.

• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and SAP functional requirements and deliver appropriate artefacts on standard templates including but not limited to Process Flows Technical Design Solution Design User Stories Use Cases GUI Screen and Interface designs.

• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.

• Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.

• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability functionality and performance needs.

• Implement and deploy SAP template solution to achieve defined business goals to design maintain deploy solution for Production Planning (PP) and related cross functional components such as Order Management and Finance.

• Owns and manages the design documentation and implementation of processes and process improvements in conjunction with process owners Super Users SAP functional specialists and thirdparty as part of the SAP CoE. Initiates continuous improvements activities to increase the efficiency of the business information systems and meet global business objectives.

• Collaborate on technical feasibility: Work closely with Product Managers to ensure that product features are technically feasible and sustainable within given timelines.

• Define required functional performance security and compatibility tests to ensure all is working after integration of the product to systems

• Orchestrate and plan system demos and tests

Are you a MATCH

Required Education:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science and/or Business Administration or Equivalent

Required Length & Type of Experience:

• 5 years of experience implementing SAP products including experience with S/4 HANA

• 5 years of handson experience in configuring SAP Production Planning (PP) solutions including SAP interfaces with external Planning and MES systems

• 5 years of business and functional requirements analysis experience

• Experience with troubleshooting and debugging complex integrated applications.

• Extensive experience as a team member on medium to large SAP initiatives

• Experience with SAP Warehouse Management (WM) is a plus

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Experienced SAP Production Planning (PP) subject matter expert who is able to engage with business extract business requirements and configure SAP solutions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse stakeholder group including executives managers business process owners and subject matter experts.

• Identify and manage senior stakeholders evaluate their interests and establish effective communication channels ensuring effective stakeholder management and engagement.

• Specify requirements for toolset adaptions acceptance testing of implemented solutions develop migration strategies and plans.

• Ensure processes deliverables and responsibilities are fully aligned with strategic priorities / goals of the organization.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision plans vacation sick time floating holidays and paid holidays for fulltime employees.

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.

Additionally we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds tuition reimbursement discounted college tuition for employees dependents and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees our customers patients community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their race gender sexual orientation religion disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

Equal Employment Opportunity Information

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