Analyst, Business (SAP Production Planning)

ZipRecruiter; Oxford; On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global beauty company seeks a SAP PP Business Analyst responsible for translating business processes into system functionality. The role involves analyzing needs, documenting requirements, and implementing efficient solutions in a collaborative environment, offering competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401k Retirement Savings Plan

Paid time off (3 weeks vacation)

Annual bonus based on company performance

Qualifications

• Techno-functional expert in SAP PP with at least 8+ years in FDA-regulated environment.
• Experience in SAP PP integration with other modules like MM, FI-CO, WM.
• Strong knowledge of PB-Business Processes.

Responsibilities

• Act as second-line support and provide Revlon support on PP processes.
• Lead implementation and rollout projects.
• Collaborate with teams to design SAP PP solutions.

Skills

Analytical skills

Consulting skills

Technical skills in ABAP

SAP integration knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Description

At Revlon, we create beauty innovations for everyone that inspire confidence and ignite joy every day.

Breaking beauty boundaries is in our company’s DNA. Since its game-changing launch of the first opaque nail enamel in 1932 (and later, the first long-wear foundation), Revlon has provided consumers with high-quality product innovation, performance, and sophisticated glamour. Elizabeth Arden made waves as a woman-led beauty company in the 1920s. In 1931, Almay became the original hypoallergenic, fragrance-free beauty brand.

Today, Revlon resiliently continues its legacy as a leading global beauty company. Our diverse portfolio—which consists of some of the world’s most iconic brands and product offerings in cosmetics, skincare, hair & care, personal care, and fragrances—is sold around the world through prestige, professional, mass, and direct-to-consumer retail channels. These brands include Revlon, Revlon Professional, Elizabeth Arden, Almay, American Crew, CND, Cutex, Mitchum, Sinful Colors, Creme of Nature, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, John Varvatos, Juicy Couture, Ed Hardy and more.

We honor our heritage, embrace change, and applaud . We champion our employees and celebrate our consumers.

We are Revlon, together, transforming beauty.

Position Overview:

The SAP PP Business Analyst is the primary liaison between their respective functional areas and the Information Technology department. This role is the main conduit that translates business processes/requirements into system functionality. This position supports their global functional areas by analyzing business needs, documenting requirements, and proposing, designing, and implementing solutions often of a very complex nature. This position will often be called upon to design solutions to accommodate requirements that are global in the solution stack of the standard SAP functionality.

This position requires strong analytical and consulting skills as this individual needs to partner with their functional areas to fully understand their requirements and translate them into efficient, cost-effective solutions. This position serves as a trusted advisor to their functional areas, proactively proposing system changes and innovations to improve efficiency, increase customer satisfaction, or drive cost savings.

This position will be responsible for the day-to-day support of the functional areas they support but will also be called upon to participate in projects, typically in a lead role. These projects run the gamut from enhancing existing functionality and implementing new functionality, to full-blown implementations. This person must have a strong understanding of the various integration points between the SAP module(s) they are supporting and the various other SAP modules.
While this position has no direct reports, they will likely be called upon to mentor a more junior member of the staff.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Act as the expert second-line support providing Revlon support on the business process in PP
• Provide expert technical guidance on PP processes.
• Carry out detailed impact assessments for proposed change requests, proposing alternate cost-effective solutions where appropriate.
• Lead, evaluate, develop, test, and implement the release of developments according to the Revlon validation procedures.
• For those change requests requiring incremental spending, proactively seek funding via Revlon’s project approval process by developing project plans and identifying risks.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, IT teams, and external vendors, to gather business requirements and design SAP PP solutions that align with organizational goals.
• Consistently deliver high-quality services and solutions that meet business requirements and ensure that goals are accomplished in line with business objectives.
• Lead PP - implementation and rollout projects
• Recognize, analyze, and solve system or application problems as they are encountered.
• Actively share ideas, information, knowledge, and data to accomplish collaboration for the success of the team, project, or task.
• Provide ongoing support to all implemented functionality in PP
• Debug functionality issues and performance issues.
• Helping to define, analyze, develop, implement, and document new systems, and customized programs to meet business needs

Additional Responsibilities:

• Ability to Mentor entry-level IT resources
• Provide Subject matter expertise to the business partners
• Handle relevant Master Data objects & cutover approaches
• Work with “Service partners” to design, develop, test, and SAP - projects, enhancements and bug fixes
• Create Process Definition Document / Design Document (PDD) and Business Process Procedure (BPP)

Experience Required:

• Techno-functional expert in SAP PP with at least 8+ years of configuration experience in an FDA-regulated environment
• Technically skilled in ABAP, iDOCs, BAPIs, and other integration methods
• 4+ full lifecycle implementation of SAP ECC in the PP area (requirements, testing, cutover)
• Expertise in SAP PP integration with EWM 9.2 as well as MM, FI-CO, WM, QM, PM, and external systems
• Excellent understanding and expertise in SAP System Configuration.
• Experience working with offshore development teams and coordinating with teams distributed across different countries.
• Expertise in SAP implementation methodologies
• Expertise in SAP PP user and customer exits
• Strong knowledge of PP-Business Processes
  
  • Production Master Data Management
    
    • Material Master Data
    • Work Centers / Resources
    • Bills of Material
    • Recipes / Routings
  • Demand Management
    
    • Translating Forecast into Production Plan
    • Long Term Planning and Capacity Leveling
  • Production Planning
    
    • Configure and maintain production planning settings
    • Planning strategies
    • Scheduling parameters
    • Process order types
    • Optimize production schedules, sequences, and resource allocation
  • Material Requirements Planning
    
    • Configure and maintain MRP settings, planning parameters, and control parameters
    • Monitor and analyze materials requirements based on demand forecasts, production orders, and inventory levels.
    • Optimize MRP runs to ensure optimal stock availability
  • Advanced Shop Floor Control Experience with SAP Integration
    
    • Configure and maintain shop floor control settings such as order release, order confirmation, and goods movements
    • Collaborate with Shop Floor teams to monitor production progress, update production orders, and manage work center capacities.
  • Capacity Planning
    
    • Configure and maintain capacity planning settings, including work center capacities, shift definitions, and capacity leveling profiles
    • Collaborate with production teams to optimize resource utilization, identify bottlenecks, and balance workloads.
  • System Optimization
    
    • Identify opportunities for improving system performance, improving efficiency, streamlining production processes, and enhancing reporting capabilities.
    • Investigate OSS notes to eliminate issues and assist with regression testing to ensure end-to-end processes are not impacted.
  • Experience in data migration like LSMW
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Other Experience (Added Advantage):

• Spanish a is plus
• SAP PP certification is a plus
• SAP ABAP certification is a plus
• SAP S/4 HANA implementation experience
• Experience with SOX audits and/or government-regulated audits.

Core Competencies:

• Strive for Excellence: demonstrates a passionate desire to win in the marketplace and grow the business. Sets ambitious goals for the function and self
• Innovative: creates new and better solutions to ensure a competitive advantage.
• Change Ready: demonstrates the ability to flex with changes within an organization and the capability to navigate through and champion change
• Collaborative: involves key partners appropriately and makes sure the right people are informed. Fosters teamwork and open communication at all levels of the organization.
• Self-Aware: demonstrates awareness of his/her strengths and weaknesses on a professional, technical, and personal level.
• Job Knowledge: possess sufficient technical expertise and experience to perform assigned duties in a successful and competent manner

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The base pay range for this position is $100,000 and $130,000/year; however base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge, and geographic location. Certain positions may also be eligible for short-term incentives as part of total compensation.

This role is eligible for an annual bonus based on company performance.

Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, and vision benefits. Employees are covered by the company-paid basic life insurance policy and company-paid short-term disability insurance (the benefit commences upon hire and allows for a portion of base salary for up to 26 weeks if you are disabled). Other benefits offered to employees include but are not limited to the following: long-term disability, supplemental life insurances, flexible spending accounts, critical illness insurance, group legal, theft protection, etc. Employees are also able to enroll in our 401k Retirement Savings Plan.

Employees will also receive 3 weeks of vacation, pro-rated based on date of hire for the 1st year of employment and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Vacation will depend on role.