Senior Applications Consultant SAP SD & MM (w/m/d)

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INEOS Styrolution is the leading global styrenics supplier, with a focus on styrene monomer, polystyrene, ABS Standard and styrenic specialties. With world-class production facilities and more than 90 years of experience, INEOS Styrolution helps its customers succeed by offering solutions, designed to give them a competitive edge in their markets. At the same time, these innovative and sustainable best-in-class solutions help make the circular economy for styrenics a reality. The company provides styrenic applications for many everyday products across a broad range of industries, including automotive, electronics, household, construction, healthcare, packaging and toys/sports/leisure. In 2020, sales were at 4 billion euros. INEOS Styrolution employs approximately 3,600 people and operates 20 production sites in ten countries.

For one of our EMEA sites/ offices (Frankfurt am Main, Antwerp, Cologne, Ludwigshafen, Schwarzheide, Wingles) we are looking for a 

Senior Applications Consultant SAP SD & MM (w/m/d) 

This position is available as a full-time or part-time position.  

ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT AND JOB PURPOSE
The holder of the role is responsible for analysing INEOS Styrolution’s business processes, finding ways to align, simplify or streamline them where possible and setting business processes up on a common IT basis, while respecting existing (regional) business models.

The holder of the role establishes a strong interface to the operational business units in charge of the processes. He / She sets up a structure for operational business support to monitor constantly for improvement opportunities. The incumbent will manage improvement activities by means of IT Demand Management. The holder of this role must ensure enterprise software applications and business solutions relevant for the processes are perfectly available and serving the needs of the internal and external customers in an optimum way. At the same time, the incumbent must ensure all INEOS Styrolution IT policies and processes are followed and met which is not limited to the areas of security, auditability and documentation only.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Understand the aim of business processes in the entire supply chain to translate them into system design
• Lead, coordinate and support Business Process Managers, Developers and other IT functions as needed to perform system changes in our ERP system, interfaces, add-ons and analytic tools.
• Support, create and maintain process documentation to foster business process harmonization and automation and act as a gatekeeper for the commercial related template solutions
• Actively investigate and execute globally harmonized system changes to achieve business process improvements or to resolve/avoid inefficiencies
• Actively investigate information requirements of business and translate them into reporting / analytics concepts for the different stake holders in Commercial areas (e.g. Sales, warehouse management etc.)
• Perform complex business continuity and/or system maintenance customizing
• Coordinate delivery process for internal or external build
• Lead projects from start to end and motivate project teams to deliver projects in time, scope and budget
• Foster information and system integration by aligning process designs and implementation across modules/functions
• Ensure test quality by creating/monitoring test concepts
• Foster the collaboration across the sites by actively exchanging relevant information or connecting colleagues with same or similar challenges, e.g. by using the Digital Workplace
• Act as an ambassador of digitalisation in our commercial area
• Perform and support IT maintenance (including Incident Support) and change management using the standard tools (e.g. ServiceNow)
• Conduct training for relevant stakeholders so that they understand business processes and the according set up in IT systems
• Identify issues, risks and technical opportunities for discussions, and raise these to the attention of management
• Support analysis and review of SAP ERP systems together with Global IT teams on system authorisation and other security issues regularly

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

Level of Education & Knowledge:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Business or a related field
• 5+ years of industry and / or consulting experience
• Business fluent in English, knowledge of another language would be considered an asset
• Solid experience in business process management and/or SAP environment, including relevant exposure to business process analysis and design, and knowledge of principles, applications and techniques of appropriate systems with clear willingness and ability to be ‘hands on’ as required
• Experience in implementation of IT applications and IT change management, including requirements analysis, feasibility studies, functional and technical specifications design, pilot testing and operational management
• Experience in the process industry, ideally plastics or chemicals industry, with detailed knowledge of procurement, finance and controlling in addition to sales and logistics

Technical Skills:

• Functional / technical proficiency in SAP SD and MM implementation and customization 
• Very good understanding of the sales, in/outbound logistics including warehouse processes
• Technical understanding of SAP transport management processes
• Ability to perform technical analysis of SAP related issues and usage of SAP OSS platform
• Sound ABAP programming knowledge in area of SD/MM would be considered an asset
• Solid experience in business process management and/or SAP environment, including exposure to business process analysis and design, and knowledge of principles, applications and techniques of appropriate systems
• Understanding of integration of bolt-on applications into SAP ERP Applications Software
• Solid understanding of Data Warehouse & SharePoint Applications
• Good understanding of Document Management Systems and Archives
• Global and international experience

Competencies, Behavioural Skills:

• Strong team player, promotes teamwork throughout the organization
• Very good interpersonal and intercultural skills
• Developed strategic and analytical skills, sees the big picture, able to manage complexity
• Competence to understand constantly changing complex market environments
• Understand cross-functional/ cross-regional framework and business processes
• Ability to cope with workload peaks
• Clear prioritization and focused on defined objectives
• Good moderation and facilitation skills

Line Management Responsibility
None.

If you have any question, please contact Lea Achstetter  phone +49 69 5095501200.

INEOS Styrolution Group GmbH, Mainzer Landstraße 50, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany 

www.ineos-styrolution.com