Lead SAP ARIBA SCC, Milwaukee, WI
Gopi Krishna
Job Title: Delivery Lead – ARIBA SCC
Work Location: Milwaukee WI 53209, US
Job Description
• Function :
o Information Technology
• Job Family:
o Solution Delivery
Family Description:
· Delivers business solutions that enable global and local business teams. Executes transparent IT processes for full solution lifecycle. Drives continuous improvement in solution performance, reliability, compliance, and efficiency. Proactively drives solution usage and simplification with business partners. Strategically develops and executes solution roadmap that aligns to business strategy and measurably drives business KPIs. Consistently grows expertise in business processes and enabling technologies
Role Responsibilities:
· Application Strategy: support the generation and evolution of a Supply Chain Supplier Collaboration application strategy for JCI.
· Implementation Roadmap: support the creation and maintenance of a Supply Chain Supplier Collaboration implementation roadmap in JCI maximizing company benefits.
· Project Proposals: responsible for generating end-to-end solution proposals recommendations to business requirements, including the proposed solution architecture, estimated cost, time, internal effort as well as implementation risks, including partner recommendations.
· Project Delivery: responsible for the end-to-end implementation of such projects, including solution design, development, testing, deployment, post go-live support and transition to IT Operations, fulfilling all business requirements on time, budget and quality.
· Enhancement Management: responsible for the supervision of the small Enhancement queue for Supply Chain applications, from inception to deployment.
· Continuous Improvement: coach, establish and influences the usage of technical best practices across the operations organization. Coordinates and ensures data governance methodologies are adhered to within our environment.
Organization Interaction:
· Supports IT Business Partners and user community in opportunity definition, business case build and in the elicitation and validation of business requirements
· Collaborates with ERP and Enterprise Integration teams in defining and delivering end-to-end solutions, including system integrations
· Works with the ePMO organization in building project plans and in project coordination for application delivery activities
· Interact with Application Support leaders on defining support solution designs as well as with the transition to the Managed Services team responsible for day-to-day support
· Collaborates with Global Infrastructure and Global Security teams in defining and delivering solutions
Key Business Processes:
· This position will focus on Supply Chain Supplier Collaboration processes, as defined in the Ariba SCC functionality.
Key IT Platforms:
· Primary: Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration
· Secondary: SAP ECC. SAP S4
Role KPI’s:
· Project Delivery on-time, budget and quality
· Solution Reusability
· Level of Application Customization
· Simplification of solution portfolio
· Increased Cost Efficiency in solution delivery
Minimum Required Experience:
· 10+years of IT experience working in functional/business process roles
· Preferred 7+ years of IT work experience building enterprise applications for supply chain business processes, in one or more of the following application types: Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Supplier Collaboration, Transportation Management, Manufacturing Execution, Warehouse Management.
Other Skills/Knowledge:
· Deep business process knowledge in the Purchase-to-Pay process, as well as Supply Chain Supplier Collaboration processes. Knowledge on the business process areas of Supply Chain Planning and optimization, logistics and distribution and manufacturing.
· Exceptional communication, collaboration, teamwork, negotiation, and influence, as well as relationship-building skills at all levels with internal and external parties.
· Advanced user of Microsoft office applications (Excel, Access, Project, Visio, PowerPoint, and Word) and SQL.
· Proven experience working on large scale supply chain transformation initiatives
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