Technical Senior Logistics Consultant

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.  

What You'll Do 

As a Technology Senior Logistics Consultant, your job will involve working in a global team,

focusing on positioning and delivery of DMLT services in South Africa, Global, as well as internal projects.

Your main tasks are:

• Build expertise to configure Data migration and Data transformation tools.  
• Execute data migration/ transformation delivery related activities in projects.
• Analyse and resolve issues resulting from customer testing.
• Building competencies and expertise to become a solution expert in a short time frame.
• Building best practice document and onboarding colleagues, become a multiplier and demonstrate ability to scale by onboarding and working with other delivery consultants.
• Identify customer's logistics business needs and designing and architecting the appropriate solution proposal from the Data Management & Landscape Transformation (DMLT) portfolio and beyond.
• Lead and drive customer opportunities throughout all engagement phases (presales, sales and delivery) and architecting potential solution design.
• Lead and facilitating customer's workshops and discussions to validate the best solution design for the customer's requirement.
• Lead the delivery of DMLT projects remotely and onsite, in distributed regional and global teams.
• Conduct feasibility studies and system analyses, supported by SAP DMLT technology and methodology.
• Contribute to continuously enhance the DMLT solution design according to changing market requirements and identify potential enhancements, continuously improving our service offering.
• Strong background of SAP Modules – SD, MM, PP, PM with good understanding of SAP data model for at least 2 of the modules.
• Closely collaborate with people in different roles across the company.
• Establish and maintain trustful relationships with Market Unit colleagues on all levels, of both externally on customer side and SAP internally and externally.

Who You Are 

• Experience 7-10 years technical experience in Consulting delivery. 
• Technical delivery of minimum 2 SAP data migration projects.
• Experience in SAP ABAP programming languages, debugging and interfaces. 
• Has a strong understanding of SAP ECC / S4HANA data model with sound understanding processes in Logistics application modules.
• Has strong exposure to working with SAP Customers from different industry segments such as Public Sector, Manufacturing, Retail, Consumer Goods, Utilities, Automobile etc.
• Have worked on new implementation projects on S4HANA leveraging Migration Cockpit, Data Services or Migration WorkBench Tool and have implemented data migration objects in the SD, MM, PP, PM modules.
• SAP DMLT tools, methodology and data migration experience is beneficial.
• Process know-how for essential business processes like Lead-2-Cash, Procure-2-Pay, Design-2-Operate or Hire-2-Retire are a strong asset.

• Proven track in C-level communication.
• Excellent communication and moderation skills, strong team spirit. Fluency in English required.
• High customer focus and business impact. Team player, work in a collaborative manner, proactive networking attributes, results and execution focus. High drive & self-starter/-motivated.
• Availability to travel. (10% - 30%). 
• Experience working in international customer projects is a plus.

Meet your Team

Data Management and Landscape Transformation is a global Service Delivery organization within the Board Area Customer Success. We advise our customers in strategy definition, conceptual planning, and the realization of their business and technological transformation requirements for the digital economy.

Data Management and Landscape Transformation services offer a holistic approach for customers data-related needs with data quality and data integration services. The DMLT group serves SAP customers in managing their data and transforming their landscapes. Business, market, and technology changes result in realignment of business processes and structures. This reflects in various transformation and transition activities, such as

• Fast-track data migration and (selective) transition to the Intelligent Enterprise Suite (IES) (SAP S/4HANA cloud, SAP S/4HANA, BW/4, C4/H, SuccessFactors, SAP Data Intelligence and more).
• Manage business challenges that come with mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Optimization of processes and data, or organizational restructuring by ensuring data harmonization, data restructuring or the consolidation of system landscapes.
• Improve management of data from strategy to execution, with the focus on data quality, data privacy, data volume and lifecycle, data integration, and master data management.

In fast pace changing market and business requirements, it is essential for customers to adopt to the digital platform to drive their business innovation. The DMLT service portfolio plays a significant role in helping customers to transition to the IES via SAP Move and SAP RISE. It's our mission to "enable customer's business to intelligently connect people, data and processes".
 

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Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.  

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 393669  | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

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