Functional Analyst, Make to Deploy

The J.R. Simplot Company is a diverse, privately held organization, with roots firmly planted in agriculture and agriculture-related businesses. The J.R. Simplot Company is a true farm-to-table company with operations that touch every aspect of agriculture, including seed production, farming and ranching, plant sciences, fertilizer manufacturing, food processing, commercial product development, and distribution.

Summary

Simplot is on a transformational journey focused on delivering value to our customers now and in the future. This journey is based on a "Green-Field" approach to implementing SAP S4/HANA at the core enabler for this transformation. This SAP Practice at Simplot is responsible for creating solutions within the new S4/HANA landscape to support our company's dynamic global needs. Each team member will contribute to building Solutions by utilizing the vast array of SAP products to support our business objectives.

We are currently looking for innovative and driven Functional Analysts to join the existing team and contribute to all future business objectives. Functional Analyst processes with position openings include EWM, TM, and LE.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the functional configuration expert for your process area
• Ensure your consulting team members of your process area follow program expectations
• Represent your process area in design and build sessions and solutioning
• Guide and participate in configuration in your process area
• Participate and contribute to daily stand-up meetings with a small agile development team in a quest to rapidly deploy new solutions on the S4 platform.
• Utilize agile methodologies for continuous delivery of solutions. Rapid deployment and validation of solutions components is a must.
• Design, configure, and test developed solutions and collaborate with agile team peers on the scope of the solution.
• Participate in continuous discovery of new solutions that will utilize the SAP Product Suite already procured by Simplot

Typical Education

• Bachelor's Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4 year college or university

Relevant Experience

• 7+ Years of proven experience as an SAP Functional Analyst or IT Business Analyst in relation to manufacturing and logistics processes and underlying SAP capabilities is required.
• Proven knowledge of the SAP Fiori elements and how to drive standardization and re-utilization of elements in a quest to develop a common UX repository is preferred.
• Working knowledge of the new Fiori tools is preferred.
• S/4HANA experience is preferred (1809,1909,2020).
• Good understanding of various integration patterns between SAP products and non-SAP Products and when to utilize these patterns when enabling a business process is preferred.
• Good understanding of the development lifecycle utilization of SAP Solution Manager and how it will be utilized in a Dev/Ops environment is preferred.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban is required.
• Excellent troubleshooting and verbal and written communication skills is required.
• Good understanding of standards, guidelines, and best practices to be used during development is required.
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Job Requisition ID: 16446

Travel Required: Less than 10%

Location(s): Simplot Headquarters - Boise

Country: United States

**The J.R. Simplot Company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other protected status. **