The opportunity
We are seeking a Senior Associate/Manager - SAP MM. To address the shifting landscape of our clients needs, EY has established a national Center of Excellence focusing in the broad topics of Enterprise Intelligence, Risk Transformation, IT Risk, and Enabling Technologies. Enabling Technologies primarily focuses on the design and optimization of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) packages like SAP, Oracle, and others. Our team typically works with Fortune 1000 clients across a variety of industries including, Manufacturing, Pharma, Energy/Utilities, Transportation, Telecommunications, Entertainment/Media, Oil/Gas and Consumer Goods/Retail.
Your key responsibilities:
- Design, configure, and test SAP MM, SD functionalities to meet business process and application requirements.
- Conduct requirement gathering workshops and document business needs for the development of SAP MM solutions.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders to ensure alignment of SAP MM solutions with business expectations.
- Provide expertise in the areas of materials management, procurement, inventory management, and vendor invoice management.
- Customize and enhance SAP MM functionalities to fit business requirements, including developing custom reports and interfaces with other systems.
- Lead and support SAP MM projects, including full lifecycle implementations, upgrades, and system enhancements.
- Perform detailed analysis of complex business process requirements and provide appropriate system solutions.
- Identify integration issues and develop solutions to these issues.
- Work closely with other SAP modules consultants to ensure business process integration.
- Conduct user training and create user documentation as needed.
- Provide ongoing post-implementation support to optimize user adoption and system potential.
- Stay informed about SAP MM updates and best practices to drive continuous improvement.
To qualify for the role you must have
- A bachelor's degree and approximately 6 years of related work experience
- Degree in computer science, accounting, finance or a related field (MBA or Business Undergraduate degree preferred). SAP certification/s highly preferred.
- 5 years of experience working with the SAP Materials Management and Logistics (direct and indirect procurement and inventory management) as well as participation in full life cycle implementations (or equivalent experience) required.
- Familiarity with SAP Materials Management integration to PP, SD, FI/CO, QM, IBP, PS, etc.
- Experience implementing SAP MM/LE in a manufacturing environment required.
- Familiarity with SAP Variant Configuration, batch management, MRP and warehouse management.
- Experience executing a business blueprint and documenting business requirements as well as functional specifications.
- Development of project documentation, requirements gathering and project management methodology experience required.
- Experience with SAP S4 Hana a plus.
- Experience with inventory management, direct and indirect procurement, account payable and enterprise asset management.
- Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing and integrating enterprise domain knowledge with technology skills.
- Demonstrate characteristics of a forward thinker and self-starter that thrives on new challenges and adapts quickly to learning new knowledge.
- Prior consulting experience and a demonstrated history of driving revenue within existing clients and in developing new prospects at the C level of Fortune 500 companies.
- Ability to lead a team of consulting professionals on multiple projects.
- Strong work ethics
- A willingness to travel to meet client needs travel is estimated to be 70-90%.
