SAP CoE Business Process Senior Consultant - Global Trade Services 

United States, Minnesota, Saint Louis Park 

187948999

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

CoE Business Process Senior Consultants are required to deliver critical engagements with customers on functional and technical areas. Consultants are also required to:

• Lead and conduct functional design workshops and identify issues/risks and provide recommendations to optimize business processes, system automation, system landscape and protection of investment. They are expected to resolve critical business process design issues and work closely with SAP development to provide the best practice and reference architecture to the customers.
• Manage critical customer escalation and drive critical issues to resolution. Through these activities SAP and COE builds a trusted advisor relationship with the customer. SAP COE provides a broad range of offerings to cover planning, implementation, operations, upgrades, and continuous improvement. You can ensure the optimum performance of SAP solutions -- and the maximum benefit to SAP customers.
• Lead customer’s implementations and provide architectural inputs and best practices for the business processes, ideas for improving customer productivity, providing the highest levels of customer satisfaction, and running an infrastructure that empowers customers to take advantage of new opportunities.
• Conduct deep root cause analysis with technical and programming skills, provides solutions and delivers services in very complex environments for specific fields/areas. The complex landscape can include On-premise systems, Public and Private cloud and triaging issues across the heterogeneous landscape.
• Take the responsibility as a De-escalation Architect to Identify top issues and creates and executes action plan, leads analysis of system landscapes and technical issues, leads analysis of core business processes for all applications. Leads analysis of system or application operation, develops comprehensive service plans for customers.
• Provide Industry knowledge and contribute to development of support services for new products/components like Industry Cloud, Industry 4.0 solutions etc. Develop concepts for service/business processes/ product development. Provides knowledge transfer.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• The ideal candidate will have at minimum a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Computer science or engineering.
• Functional expertise ability to work independently and take ownership of assigned tasks.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills in English, with the ability to effectively interact with all levels of customers and management, both internal and external.
• Willing to travel to SAP customers worldwide. Occasional weekend work may be required.
  

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 6+ years of experience in SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) solutions.
• Experience in green field implementation and brown field conversion of GTS 11.0 to SAP GTS Edition for HANA.
• Expertise and detailed understanding of SAP GTS sub processes such as compliance management, customs management, preference processing and other special customs procedures.
• Good understanding and knowledge of end-to-end SAP Logistics and supply chain processes and their integration to GTS.
• Technical expertise in SAP systems and integration architecture including good understanding and expertise in ABAP, HANA Database, and BTP technologies would be a plus.