SAP Project Consultant

Job Description:

The SAP Project Consultant contributes with SAP/BI basis expertise to support the design and implementation of the IT governance in the scope of Digital Technologies creating governance principles, policies, and processes. New demands consolidation, Vendor Performance evaluation, defining Vendor KPI, designing the SOW, technical team resource management, security/audit controls are few process that this role is accountable for.

What are we looking for?

• Ability to translate technical or complex concepts into user-friendly language
• Ability to collaborate, working closely with both functional and technical teams
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and trouble-shooting skills
• Ability to remain flexible as priorities change, adaptable to change, and able to accept ambiguity
• Effective English communications skills including written, verbal, and presentation
• Established skills in time management, multi-tasking, and prioritization of work
• SAP Basis expertise.
• Will not be working technically on system but leverage the existing Basis and technical knowledge to fulfil the governance team needs.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• SAP Project Consultant will function as a contact point managing demands coming from our internal customers, understanding their needs, helping to translate that into solutions, engaging other team members on evaluation when needed, and defining the proper route to its execution, aiming to remove the complexity and quickly react on the business demands when working within Digital Platform team, leveraging his / her technical expertise on SAP basis area.
• The successful candidate will work closely with the Project Management Officer, supplying visibility of the resource requirements within agreed timelines with our customers, to ensure proper resource management is performed to maximize our deliverables and reduce delays and bottlenecks on project activities.
• This position will be accountable to track the resource usage giving clear visibility of the incurred costs related to specific activity and as well by collaborating on management of finance in the area.
• The successful candidate will liaise with the other team members inside area to collect inputs of our vendors performance and quality, basing their deliverables against contractual SLAs in place, ensuring proper action plans are developed and implement to cover possible areas for improvement and reporting this to our Mars Service Level team.
• You will ensure the adherence to our compliance controls, regularly coordinating the evidence collections for audit purposes and interacting with security team to implement/update controls and for any new demand in this security scope area.
• Working on continues on governance process of validating the demand, performing the impact analysis, creating the estimation and handing over to delivery team for delivery.
• Will be working on the evaluation of Vendor performance based on the KPI defined.
• Working on creating the tight SOW to help business to get best output from Vendors.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

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