Senior SAP Functional Engineer

The Sr. Engineer, Application Development & Maintenance is the TPM Tech Lead, responsible for delivering on critical initiatives in SAP SD and Pricing supporting Medical Core System. TPM is the SAP ERP supporting the Medical Segment's US Products & Distribution business, including systems supporting demand and supply planning and execution, customer relationship management, sales and distribution, pricing, rebates and incentives, and order management functions.

The Sr. Engineer/Tech Lead is responsible for the successful execution, implementation, warranty support, and support transition of EIT deliverables for TPM owned solutions in the Sales and Distribution (SAP SD and Pricin). Other responsibilities include:

What Software Engineering contributes to Cardinal Health

• Software Engineering is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and supporting applications, systems and IT products required to achieve the company's business objectives.
• Demonstrates knowledge of software development techniques and fluency in software languages and application programming interfaces.
• Demonstrates general understanding of hardware/software platforms including but not limited to operating systems, databases, application servers, web servers and integration technologies.
• Plans and executes system implementations that ensure success and minimize risk of system outages or other negative production impacts.
• Demonstrates conceptual knowledge of architecture standards and database and operating systems.
• Demonstrates problem solving ability that allows for effective and timely resolution of system issues including but not limited to production outages.
• Analyzes production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis and outage root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance.
• Demonstrates knowledge of software development, life cycle, modeling of business processes, application design patterns, business/functional documents. Estimates to high level business requirements and provide options analysis.

Responsibilities

• Execution and management of the Order to Cash functionality that supports the Medical business segment.
• Provide leadership in planning/sequencing of end-to-end design workshops and support facilitation of workshops, leveraging knowledge of industry best practices and application of global SAP implementation experience.
• Guide complex fit/gap analysis and design decisions and validate fit/gap analysis and design decisions completed by less experienced team members; ensure deviations from "out of the box" functionality have sufficient business justification and positive value proposition
• Contribute to the complete set of cutover tasks and dependencies that will enable a successful release of program code and configuration
• Ability to convert technical/functional specifications into test scenarios and test scripts
• Identifying synergies and optimization areas within the OTC domain and manage the execution.
• Keeping up with emerging technologies and changes in business processes.
• Maintain strategic relationships with all key stakeholders and provide timely and effective communications, including appropriate status updates.
• Customer focused and deep understanding of business needs.
• Driving end-user satisfaction by using specific metrics.
• Provide leadership and direction to the teams during problem solving and crisis management.
• Provide solution leadership, organizing, and overseeing projects.
• Solution ownership of new build project and enhancement for OTC.
• Influencing internal and external clients to leverage out of the box solutions and reducing customizations.
• Help in completing effort estimates, preparing proposals, and collaborating with functional partners to deliver solutions for value-add business functions.
• Collaborating with other process tower leaders to ensure a cohesive solution without impacting cross functional and downstream processes or applications.
• Ensure all critical OTC processes are properly monitored and alerted; and automate recurrent incidents.
• Closely follows the strategic direction set by the segment and executes on priority goals.
• Lead design and build of SAP solutions in Order Fulfillment: Sales Order Processing, Billing , Customer Returns and Intercompany business process areas
• Breaks down complex business problems, perform effective analysis to develop and evaluate options and recommend solutions
• Gathering requirements from business partners/customers and designing the solution for business process
• Creating functional specifications and guiding ABAP development
• Proactively identifies and fixes issues by raising awareness and seeks alignment
• Present deliverable status updates to IT/Business leadership as required
• Communicating efficiently and effectively with business partners, customers, and technical teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent work experience preferred
• 8+ years' experience in related field preferred
• SAP certification in Sales and Distribution module is preferred
• Expert level, hands-on SAP skills in Order to Cash process with Working knowledge of two or more technologies preferred (MM, FI/CO, APO GATP) along with heavy exposure to Vistex.
• Implementation experience in full life cycle, large scale SAP project, where solution integrated across SAP modules, and other non-SAP technologies and e-Commerce Platforms.
• SAP SD Configuration - Defining & assigning Enterprise Structure, Master data, Sales Order types, Item Categories, Billing Document types, Output determination, Copy Control, Schedule line categories, Available to Promise
• Pricing: Condition table, Condition type, Access sequence, Pricing procedure, Condition record, and VOFM Routine.
• Order Management: Creation of Sales documents - Inquiry, Quotation, Sales order (standard order, rush order, cash sales, service order, returns), Deliveries (outbound & inbound), Billing, Invoicing, Credit memo, Debit memo, Intercompany sales; Configuration and implementation of SAP LE process, covering the complete range of functionalities like master data uploads.
• Experience in SAP/EDI integrations (EDI 850, 855, 810 ,856, 940, 945 etc).
• Experience in integration between SAP ECC and distributed WMS systems, APO GATP is a plus.
• Interfaces: Should have hands on integration experience with different technologies between SAP to SAP and SAP to Non-SAP systems (BAPI, RFC, Apigee, ODATA is a plus).
• Hands on experience gathering requirements and creating functional specs
• Demonstrated analytical, problem solving, organizational and planning skills
• Strong collaboration and leadership skills.
• Proficiency with ASAP (Accelerated SAP) Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Strong experience in completing effort estimates, preparing proposals, and collaborating with our functional partners to deliver quality business solutions.
• Ability to develop individuals and teams.

What is expected of you and others at this level?

• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
• Works on complex projects of large scope
• Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives
• Completes work independently; receives general guidance on new projects
• Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives
• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

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