SAP Downstream Solution Specialist
Company Description
Company Description |
Louis Dreyfus Company es una empresa líder en la comercialización y transformación de productos agrícolas. Nuestras actividades abarcan toda la cadena de valor, desde el campo hasta la mesa, a través de una amplia gama de líneas de negocio, aprovechamos nuestro alcance global y nuestra extensa red de activos para servir a nuestros clientes y consumidores en todo el mundo. Estructurada como una organización matricial de seis regiones geográficas y diez plataformas, Louis Dreyfus Company opera en más de 100 países y emplea aproximadamente a 17.000 personas en todo el mundo.
Job Description
Job Description |
As a Solution Specialist, you are the referent for the downstream processes.
You define and establish target solution, starting from an initial conceptual vision and evolving into a more concrete solution specification. You make high-level design choices according to the business strategy; dictate the standards, guidelines, best practices, and patterns and identify impacts on the information system. You will have to understand business requirements, prepare or review specifications, work effectively with other functional and technical team members, make recommendations, and converge all requirements into one/several solutions.
When specifications are set and solutions defined, you will also ensure the delivery of the solution hand-in-hand with the rest of the team.
In this position, you will have three main roles covering a large scope of responsibilities:
You are the gatekeeper of the downstream processes and it integration with the rest of the ecosystem:
- Understand the business needs and translate into a solution.
- With other team members, you design cross processes flows.
- Work closely and confidently with various departments.
- You are ensuring maintenance and enhancement of your process.
You act as trusted partner for long term & continuous improvement:
- Manage business relationship to define target priorities and business value.
- Ensure communication and be responsible of oneself indicators (measurable KPIs).
- Animate, inform, communicate, enhance, anticipate and perform with the other domains to ensure end-to-end design.
- Elaborate action plans for continuous improvements of the solution and solving recurrent incidents.
You are part of the company that implements worldwide initiatives. You will be onboarded as Americas (SWLT, NLT, NAM) project team member in S/4 worldwide roadmap.
As a summary:
You will have a full view of what is done in our team:
- You will be responsible of SAP Downstream processes, including integration with the other flows.
- You will be making solution design decisions as an owner of the SAP Downstream solution & processes.
- You will manage the business relationship to ensure priority and business value.
- You will enable long term value by proposing improvement.
IT Skills
- [Must] Experience in IT best practices.
- [Must] Medium experience in SAP SD.
- [Must] Basic experience in SAP MM.
- [Must] First experience on full SAP project lifecycle.
- [Plus] Basic experience in SAP SD/MM tax related implementation of North & South America countries.
- [Plus] Basic experience in SAP LE.
- [Plus] Basic experience in SAP Fiori.
- [Plus] Basic experience in SAP Development.
- [Plus] Basic experience in SAP EDI integration.
- [Plus] Basic experience with test campaign executions & automation tool.
- [Plus] Basic experience with JIRA and ServiceNow.
Business Skills
- [Must] Basic sales and distribution business processes understanding.
- [Must] Basic procurement business processes understanding.
- [Plus] Basic experience in agricultural, pharmaceutical, food beverage or retail industry practices.
- [Plus] Experience in soft commodity trading practices.
Soft Skills
- [Must] Great relationship and ability to work with multiple teams.
- [Must] Ability and flexibility to work independently as well as in a team.
- [Must] Ability to learn fast and adapt to new solutions.
- [Must] Ability to demonstrate Critical Thinking.
- [Must] Strong analysis, synthesis & communication capacity (written & oral).
- [Must] Flexibility/adaptability in a quick changing background scenario & no uncomfortable feelings in front of ambiguity.
- [Must] Business customer focused and high proactivity.
- [Must] Analytical and problem-solving Skills
- [Must] Be fluent in English, written and spoken.
- [Must] Be able to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
Experience
- [Must] 4 years proven experience in IT projects.
- [Must] Experience with SAP SD/MM.
- [Plus] Experience working in a large IT team & collaborative environment.
- [Plus] Experience working in international multi-cultural environment.
Languages
- English (Fluent)
Education
- Master degree (or equivalent) in IT, Supply Chain, Business school or equivalent.
Additional
- You will report to a manager based in General Lagos, Argentina.
- Few national & international travels to the other LDC locations will be required.
Louis Dreyfus Company es una empresa líder en la comercialización y transformación de productos agrícolas. Nuestras actividades abarcan toda la cadena de valor, desde el campo hasta la mesa, a través de una amplia gama de líneas de negocio, aprovechamos nuestro alcance global y nuestra extensa red de activos para servir a nuestros clientes y consumidores en todo el mundo. Estructurada como una organización matricial de seis regiones geográficas y diez plataformas, Louis Dreyfus Company opera en más de 100 países y emplea aproximadamente a 17.000 personas en todo el mundo.
As a Solution Specialist, you are the referent for the downstream processes.
You define and establish target solution, starting from an initial conceptual vision and evolving into a more concrete solution specification. You make high-level design choices according to the business strategy; dictate the standards, guidelines, best practices, and patterns and identify impacts on the information system. You will have to understand business requirements, prepare or review specifications, work effectively with other functional and technical team members, make recommendations, and converge all requirements into one/several solutions.
When specifications are set and solutions defined, you will also ensure the delivery of the solution hand-in-hand with the rest of the team.
In this position, you will have three main roles covering a large scope of responsibilities:
You are the gatekeeper of the downstream processes and it integration with the rest of the ecosystem:
- Understand the business needs and translate into a solution.
- With other team members, you design cross processes flows.
- Work closely and confidently with various departments.
- You are ensuring maintenance and enhancement of your process.
You act as trusted partner for long term & continuous improvement:
- Manage business relationship to define target priorities and business value.
- Ensure communication and be responsible of oneself indicators (measurable KPIs).
- Animate, inform, communicate, enhance, anticipate and perform with the other domains to ensure end-to-end design.
- Elaborate action plans for continuous improvements of the solution and solving recurrent incidents.
You are part of the company that implements worldwide initiatives. You will be onboarded as Americas (SWLT, NLT, NAM) project team member in S/4 worldwide roadmap.
As a summary:
You will have a full view of what is done in our team:
- You will be responsible of SAP Downstream processes, including integration with the other flows.
- You will be making solution design decisions as an owner of the SAP Downstream solution & processes.
- You will manage the business relationship to ensure priority and business value.
- You will enable long term value by proposing improvement.
IT Skills
- [Must] Experience in IT best practices.
- [Must] Medium experience in SAP SD.
- [Must] Basic experience in SAP MM.
- [Must] First experience on full SAP project lifecycle.
- [Plus] Basic experience in SAP SD/MM tax related implementation of North & South America countries.
- [Plus] Basic experience in SAP LE.
- [Plus] Basic experience in SAP Fiori.
- [Plus] Basic experience in SAP Development.
- [Plus] Basic experience in SAP EDI integration.
- [Plus] Basic experience with test campaign executions & automation tool.
- [Plus] Basic experience with JIRA and ServiceNow.
Business Skills
- [Must] Basic sales and distribution business processes understanding.
- [Must] Basic procurement business processes understanding.
- [Plus] Basic experience in agricultural, pharmaceutical, food beverage or retail industry practices.
- [Plus] Experience in soft commodity trading practices.
Soft Skills
- [Must] Great relationship and ability to work with multiple teams.
- [Must] Ability and flexibility to work independently as well as in a team.
- [Must] Ability to learn fast and adapt to new solutions.
- [Must] Ability to demonstrate Critical Thinking.
- [Must] Strong analysis, synthesis & communication capacity (written & oral).
- [Must] Flexibility/adaptability in a quick changing background scenario & no uncomfortable feelings in front of ambiguity.
- [Must] Business customer focused and high proactivity.
- [Must] Analytical and problem-solving Skills
- [Must] Be fluent in English, written and spoken.
- [Must] Be able to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
Experience
- [Must] 4 years proven experience in IT projects.
- [Must] Experience with SAP SD/MM.
- [Plus] Experience working in a large IT team & collaborative environment.
- [Plus] Experience working in international multi-cultural environment.
Languages
- English (Fluent)
Education
- Master degree (or equivalent) in IT, Supply Chain, Business school or equivalent.
Additional
- You will report to a manager based in General Lagos, Argentina.
- Few national & international travels to the other LDC locations will be required.