Lead Product Designer in Supply Chain Materials Management.

Founded in 1910KONEis a global leader that provides elevators escalators and automatic building doors as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our worlds cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make peoples journeys safe convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as aninnovation and sustainabilityleader with repeatedrecognitions byForbes Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.

KONEs vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease effectiveness and experience to our customers and line with our strategy Sustainable Success with Customers we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market.

KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world escalators and elevators with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies.

KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop transform manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity business growth and technological curious mindset and innovation areat the core of everything w.e do and this makes us an integral part ofKONEs success.

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In our Supply Chain IT solution team we are now looking for Lead Product Designer in Supply Chain Materials Management (SAP MM). In this role you will own the technical end-to-end design of IT solutions for Supply Chain Materials Management in KONE IT. You are the main contact for business stakeholders to assess the potential of proposed development requirements being responsible for Supply Chain Materials Management portfolio design & delivery in your area.

In this role you collaborate closely with Global Supply Chain teams and actively support supply chain related projects and development requirements. Main stakeholders of this role are Supply Chain Process Owners SC and Purchasing Product Owners and Designers SC Project Managers Service Owners and business representatives from Supply Chain area.

Position will be based in Pune or Chennai India.

In this role you will get to:

• Own the IT solution design for Supply Chain Materials Management (SAP MM) area
• Work in close collaboration with the stakeholders to influence collect and manage business demands and requirements for your responsibility area
• Participate in requirement-gathering workshops to facilitate & influence the strategic direction of our projects and lead customers through solution design
• Turn requirements into specification and manage development and testing to final solution together with our implementation partner

• Support in Solution Roadmap creation and backlog prioritization with the Product Owners and business stakeholders
• Compile review and maintain required solution design documentation and related KONE Way documents
• Responsible for the data and application architectural compliance in collaboration with Architects and solution design consistency in collaboration with Configuration Owners or other equivalent technical roles
• Participate in global development projects and continuous development to ensure that the built solution meets business requirements while maximizing use of standard functionalities
• Guide the application support to solve complex problems and support business processes when needed
  
  

Skills & experience were looking for:

• Minimum 8 years of work experience in supply chain operations domain
• Strong hands-on experience with SAP MM within supply chain management. Experience in SD and PS is considered as added advantage.
• Experience S/4HANA is advantage
• Solid E2E supply chain business process understanding
• Well versed with SAP InterfacesIDocs Middleware
• Previous experience working on IT projects
  
• Skilled at operating in global environments driving alignment and delivering impactful results across interconnected systems
• Strong analytical conceptual thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business requirements into functional design
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills supporting good relationship building with business stakeholders and peers
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work as part of a team or independently
• University level degree or equivalent

We are looking for a collaborative and proactive team player who approaches situations with an open mind adapts quickly in a changing and agile environment and can create structure clarity and results in a transparent way. We hope you to have strong communication and interpersonal skills to support good relationship building with business stakeholders and peers as well as willingness to embrace and promote cultural diversity and inclusion respectfully across own team and organization.

What do you get in return

• Possibility to have an impact on a global supply chain solution environment and work with meaningful projects.
• Opportunity to make a difference on designing more automated improved E2E solutions and IT processes.
• Thrive in an international inclusive and professional environment.
• Enjoy a competitive benefits package bonus scheme and career development support including KONE trainings in various areas.
• Being part of a culture that values openness diversity with informal culture and friendly colleagues.

We can offer strong support in your personal growth and global opportunities for future career development at KONE. We believe in inspiring engaging and developing our people.

Read more on KONE we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is being a great place to work we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on KONE we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is being a great place to work we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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