Beschreibung
Experienced, well rounded, flexible SAP BI Professional required to assist a Global organisation with a European roll out of SAP BI.
This is a contract position for 18 months and will require working mainly within Southern Germany, with travel to other sites in the UK and Ireland on occasion. Candidates must be flexible with travel and be eligible to travel across the UK and EU.
In this role you will join a small team of 4 (including you), where you all work to ensure the smooth delivery of this template SAP BI roll-out. You will be the sole representative in Germany and therefore must have proven experience of working as the lead and solely at times on a SAP roll-out.
REQUIREMENTS AND SKILLS FOR THE ROLE
* Very good Client facing, Stakeholder management and communication skills. Ability to manage customer relationships at all levels and timely reporting of deliverables back to the regional Deployment lead is a key component of this role.
* Must have demonstrable SAP BI full life cycle implementation skills with clear responsibility of project deliverables.
* First rate technical analysis skills of SAP BI are essential (Back end analysis of existing BI architecture, data loading, modelling through to Front End report design and creation, as well as BI authorisations)
* SAP Functional experience is very desirable in these areas and in this order of priority: PP, MES (Manufacturing execution systems), Finance (in particular CO, Product Costing and Project Systems), Procurement, APO and Warehouse Management.
* Good level of experience on SAP BI7 required and any Business Objects experience is advantageous.
* Knowledge of other Data Warehousing tools in particular Cognos is advantageous.
* Ability to work in a small, high performing team and deal with multiple functional areas essential.
* Experience of data migration and Project Cutover is advantageous.
* Experience with a template roll out is highly desirable.
* Experience of technical and functional specification creation required
* Experience of and good ability to teach, create training material also an asset
* Experience of successfully leading a project also required.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is a large roll-out programme, for which the template is already set and where the solution is already in place. We are looking for someone that can roll it out without having to enhance it, if at all possible.
There are aggressive time-lines to follow and therefore we need someone that has worked in a fast moving project, where they have been the sole lead for a large roll-out within a manufacturing environment, so that they will be able to hit the ground running and have full experience of this environment.
We are NOT looking for heavily architectural based individuals as they you will not be designing anything. We are looking for more of an all-rounder. Project management, delivery focused, technically minded, customer focused SAP consultants, that can do everything to get this roll-out delivered smoothly, with minimal or no supervision, as they will work mainly on their own initiative.
January is the proposed start for 18 months.
Experience of working in Germany would be advantageous, however not essential and German speaking skills are not required either as the business language is English within this organisation.
We will also consider candidates based in the UK, that are happy to travel extensively.
Overall we are looking for someone with production planning and BI experience in a manufacturing environment.
If you have the required skills and experience, please apply today or call Lindsay or Alex on to discuss this further.