Senior Consultant - SAP

ROLE: SAP IBP Lead Demand

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• IBP Lead Demand is responsible for Designing and helping build successful implementations of SAP IBP in customer organizations.
• Liaising with Sales and Delivery Teams to help grow the Services Business around IBP in line with Organizational strategy and goals.
• Mentoring Junior IBP Team members within the Organization.
• Drive Assist with building Assets and Accelerators within SAP IBP.
• No of Implementations should be At least Two End to End IBP implementations not including Rollouts Mandatory.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Qualification Graduate in Engineering, Post Graduate MBA,MTech, MS in Operations Management SCM preferred.
• Mandatory 10 Plus years of Supply Chain Planning Experience with at least 3 years in SAP IBP.
• Desirable Experience in SAP APO or other Planning solutions would be an added advantage.

PROCESS KNOWLEDGE

• Deep Process understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain planning familiarity expertise with SCOR model is preferred technology agnostic.
• Expertise in atleast two industries eg, CPG, Chemical, Automotive, Life Sciences etc.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• Good level of understanding of all modules of SAP IBP with expertise in IBP for Demand module.
• Deep knowledge and experience in end to end IBP implementation projects in Process and Discrete industries.
• Ability to lead and conduct Design workshops in front of an audience comprising of both Business and IT teams.
• Ability to conduct User Acceptance testing and Business user training sessions.
• Ability to work on complex configuration scenarios, create planning areas, define key figure calculations, create planning view, application jobs and other set up required to build Demand and Supply.
• Deep knowledge on Statistical Forecast algorithms, Product segmentation, Driver based planning, New product planning, Demand Sensing.
• Very good understanding of ECC Master data and Transaction data from planning standpoint along with writing specifications for CPI tasks.

SOFT SKILLS

• Excellent communication skills verbal as well as written.
• Positive attitude with the flexibility and maturity to work in a challenging client environment.
• Conduct trainings and be a mentor for junior IBP team members.

VALUE CREATION:

• Ability to devise and lead Go To Market strategies for IBP to assist Sales and Alliance teams in expanding Bristlecone’s IBP footprint globally.
• Build Assets and Accelerators to reduce the overall cost to serve.