Role Responsibilities :
- Leads and delivers the analysis, design, configuration, customization, testing, deployment and support for applications within the warehouse management business process area.
- Functional leader of medium to large projects for a specific business capability. Accountabilities across multiple functional and technical areas with wide range of complexity.
- Proactive analysis of business processes and identification of innovative ways to use technology to address near term business needs which includes identifying these opportunities, reviewing and obtaining a disposition decision from the appropriate business client, assessing the fit of these opportunities into current initiatives, or including the opportunity in future demand
- Participates with Business resources to establish requirements for the implementation of changes in the business process.
- As part of this team, the WMS BA will be responsible for integrating business, information, and technology architecture to create solutions for the relevant business capability area and in some cases, cross capability areas.
- Focus on cost savings, business growth, as well as connecting with partners and customers.
Scope/Categories:
Role will report to the ITAS WMS organization. Role will not have any direct reports. Key Interfaces: Functional Engineer, Business Client, Data Analytics team, Solution Engineers. Enterprise Architects. and Project Managers. External Interfaces: Consultants, 3rd Party providers. Travel may include approximately up to 40% of work time in some months.
Key Accountabilities:
- Accountabilities across multiple functional and technical analytical areas with wide range of complexity. Leader of medium to complex projects for a specific business capability or across multiple capabilities.
- Translates non-functional and functional requirements into end-to-end analytical solution designs, ensuring solution aligns with business goals and processes, uses and provides enterprise information consistently, integrates effectively with other applications and supports a common application environment.
- Collaborates with other BA and Enterprise Architecture to make sure that solutions fit within enterprise context and aims for standardization of solutions across K-C s application landscape.
- Coordinates medium to complex WMS / EWM implementations while leading design variances based upon business needs.
- Coordinates engagements with vendors as they relate to evaluation, design and delivery of business capabilities. Contributes to the evaluation and selection of software product standards.
Key Qualifications and Experiences :
- A minimum of 3 years of applied IT experience.
- SAP experience in Supply Chain related modules (SD, MM, LE, PP, SCM).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills
- Possess strong leadership skills and exhibit creative thinking to be able to come up with inventive solutions to solve business challenges.
- Comfortable consulting with resources from other disciplines and effective at working across multiple organizational boundaries Preferred Qualifications:
- SAP functional and configuration knowledge of the SAP s extended warehouse management (EWM) or Warehouse Management (WM) processes.
- Knowledge of SAP user exits, BAPI s, and BADI s.
- Knowledge of ABAP concepts and ability to debug.
- Experience working in a virtual team across distance (remote), cultures and time zones, in a matrix with multiple reporting lines. Role Skills/Competencies:
Business analysis: Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems and identifies options for consideration. Identifies potential benefits, and available options for consideration. Works with clients/users in defining acceptance tests.
Business risk management: Carries out risk assessment within a defined functional or technical area of business. Uses consistent processes for identifying potential risk events, quantifying and documenting the probability of occurrence and the impact on the business.
Refers to domain experts for guidance on specialized areas of risk, such as architecture and environment. Co-ordinates the development of countermeasures and contingency plans.
Requirements Definition and Management: Facilitates scoping and business priority-setting for change initiatives of medium size and complexity. Contributes to selection of the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific change initiative, ensuring traceability back to source. Discovers and analyses requirements for fitness for purpose as well as adherence to business objectives and consistency, challenging positively as appropriate. Obtains formal agreement by stakeholders and recipients to scope and requirements and establishes a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence.
Manages requests for and the application of changes to base-lined requirements. Identifies the impact on business requirements of interim (e.g. migration) scenarios as well as the required end position.