Business Processes Consultant: CAS Production/Maintenance Lead Consultant

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PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

SAP Cloud Application Services (CAS) provides a wide range of services for managing business process and application logic, data layers, application security, software releases, performance, integrations and adoption accelerator through a subscription. Our application experts are engaged across the customer lifecycle to understand customers' needs, helping to define and scope elements and outcomes aiming at a delivery of service excellence.

The SAP unit "Managed Service Delivery Center - Americas" successfully supports local and global customers from various industries in maintenance, daily operation, and ongoing functional support of their SAP business applications.

Our Delivery Center is planning to enhance its capacities for professional delivery management of on-premise, cloud or hybrid customer engagements and is offering the position for a "SAP Business Processes Consultant: CAS Production/Maintenance Lead Consultant"

EXPECTATIONS AND TASK

As a Support Consultant, you work in small, combined teams of Consulting experts and partner companies on customer solutions during operations, as a strategic support advisor driving complex problem resolution and team leadership, thought leader driving complex transformations.

Your tasks will be:

• Analyzing and resolution of application incidents
• Performing of changes in alignment with business processes & solution architecture
• Identify potential improvements
• Optimize Production/Maintenance business processes and solution architecture and help customers to adopt Best Practices
• Drive innovation by identifying optimization opportunities in Production/Maintenance components of the Business Suite
• Design, functional specifications, configuration, testing
• Work on smaller projects during operations phase
• Manage customer challenges and escalations in a proactive and structured manner
• Ensure efficient CAS Delivery and value add to the customer
• • Functional / technical contact person for the core team members
• Identify, evaluate and avert functional / technical project risks
• Identify and evaluates potential for functional / technical standardization, optimization, continuous improvements, proactive activities in collaboration with the core team members and the customer
• Coordinate documentation of customer solutions according to customer standards and CAS processes
• Validate functional / technical Change Requests (Change Order / Additional Service Order) from CAS Consultant, including solution approach, effort estimation as well as resources
• Supports Application Service Manager (ASM) and core team with additional tasks such as attendance in customer meetings, presentation of package-specific content during Kick-Off Meetings, functional / technical de-escalation, prioritization of tickets and tasks
• Advises on standardization, optimization, continuous improvement and changes

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIE

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent work experience
• Background in key methodologies for efficient deployment and operation (ITIL) of SAP applications
• Deep knowledge in the following areas and business processes: SAP Production Planning (PP), SAP Plant Maintenance (PM), SAP Quality Management (QM)
• Profound experience of the implementation and support of SAP Production/Maintenance components portfolio in the following areas would be beneficial:
• Brazil
• United States
• Mexico
• Colombia
• Canada
• • pMRP
• SAM – SAP Service and Asset Manager
• SAP EAM – Enterprise Asset Management
• Countries Localization (Americas), mainly:
• Professional Certification: SAP Professional Certification demonstrating proven expertise through successful project implementations
• Strategic Support Vision: Ability to align support activities with customer's overall SAP strategy and business objectives
• Multi-Domain Expertise: Knowledge across multiple SAP products and comprehensive understanding of SAP ecosystem
• Team Leadership: Managing diverse support teams and coordinating cross-functional support activities
• Governance & Risk Management: Advanced understanding of compliance, risk assessment, and governance frameworks
• Customer Advisory Role: Providing strategic guidance on SAP optimization, best practices, and roadmap alignment
• Innovation Leadership: Driving adoption of new technologies and methodologies, new support tools, and AI-powered solutions like SAP Joule for Consultants
• Business Development: Contributing to customer success initiatives and support service expansion
• Mentorship Excellence: Developing next generation of SAP consultants through effective coaching
• Knowledge Sharing: Contributing to SAP Community content and internal knowledge base developmen

Required skill

• Ability to work effectively as a virtual member of a dynamic, dispersed team (remote)
• Excellent presentation, organizational and planning skills
• Ability to establish solid working relationships with clients.
• Professional communication and social interaction
• Professional Services Integration: Understanding when to engage other CAS SMEs and other SAP areas for very complex situations
• Support Analytics: Using data-driven insights to improve support delivery and customer satisfaction
• Thought Leadership: Contributing to SAP support best practices and community knowledge sharing
• Native Portuguese speaking. Fluent in English. Advanced in Spanish

WORK EXPERIENC

• A minimum 8+ years of relevant work experience, e.g. SAP Production/Maintenance core projects, with a reputed consulting company or system integrator
• • SAP Production/Maintenance Implementation, Migrations, versions updates, AMS support
• Proven track record of leading complex support scenarios and customer success initiatives

LOCATION

Brazil, São Paulo or São Leopoldo

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