Position Summary
The SAP Center of Excellence (COE) Analyst is a highly experienced, hands-on cross-functional professional responsible for providing guidance and delivery of key SAP initiatives and support, including optimized, standardized, and harmonized SAP functionality solutions aligned to business processes and strategic goals. The SAP COE Analyst will ideally have extensive knowledge and applied experience in several SAP application areas, with in-depth experience in PP, MM, and ePPDS. This role requires collaboration within and across departments to ensure the SAP functionality and platform are optimally leveraged in business operations.

Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions
* Partner with business stakeholders, IT leadership, and SAP partners to identify opportunities for system enhancements and new implementations, driving an optimization and improvement mindset.
* Define and deliver SAP solutions that effectively and efficiently support business objectives with a focus on standard functionality where possible.
* Ensure solutions promote system stability and sustainability.
* Design and/or ensure SAP solutions align with industry best practices and are scalable for future growth, while identifying and mitigating risks to SAP, including performance issues.
* Assist in effectively running and maintaining the overall SAP solution through a holistic lens on design integrity, incident support, root cause analysis, maximizing use of available SAP functionality, and limiting complexity where possible.
* Support building a high-performing, future-ready world-class organization by providing process, functional, and/or technical guidance to SAP COE team, project teams, users, and key business stakeholders, through successful delivery of initiatives, by promoting adoption of new SAP technologies (including cloud integration, process optimization, and digital transformation efforts), and effective and efficient resolution of SAP functionality incidents.
* Stay current with new SAP technologies and innovations, recommending and implementing appropriate advancements. Keep current on SAP and related third-party software and enterprise architecture trends.
* Must be willing to learn and take on new areas of SAP functionality where currently unfamiliar.

Basic Qualifications
Education and Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, a related field, or equivalent experience.
* Demonstrated 5+ years S/4HANA hands-on cross-functional SDLC experience in complex mid-to-large global companies - including implementations, upgrades, enhancements, and support responsibilities.
* Solution design experience required.
* Experience with Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.
* Familiarity with ITIL methodologies desirable.
* End-user training experience desirable.

Interpersonal Skills:
* Collaboratively develop, maintain, and strengthen positive partnerships within and beyond the immediate team, and adapt as well as facilitate adaptation to drive forward progress.
* Demonstrated ability to know the audience, communicate and work with all levels of the business, and follow through on details.
* Effectively and efficiently gather and communicate accurate and relevant information to support recommendations and decision-making that drive value.
* Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and within a team.
* Holds self and others accountable to deliver commitments and responsibilities.
* Strong organization, written, verbal, and active listening communication skills.

Technical Skills
* 3+ years SAP S/4HANA PP and ePPDS experience required.
* Cross-functional knowledge of other SAP S/4HANA modules is highly preferred.
* Variant Config experience is highly preferred.
* 3+ years Fiori experience preferred.
* 3+ years BTP experience preferred.
* A variety of interface experience (especially MES/CIF/BTP) is desirable.