Product Expert Production Planning SAP Americas

Airgas; St. Louis (MO); Remote; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Product Expert in SAP Production Planning to lead initiatives in enhancing business processes. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to gather requirements, design solutions, and implement SAP systems that meet operational goals. You will leverage your expertise in SAP PP and S/4 HANA to drive improvements and ensure seamless integration across departments. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will directly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations, all while enjoying a supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and innovation.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans

401k Plan with Company Matching

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Holidays

Progressive Parental Leave Package

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience implementing SAP products, especially S/4 HANA.
• Proficient in configuring SAP Production Planning solutions.

Responsibilities

• Act as subject matter expert for SAP Production Planning projects.
• Gather and clarify business requirements for SAP solutions.

Skills

SAP Production Planning (PP)

Business Requirements Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Business Administration

Tools

SAP S/4 HANA

SAP Warehouse Management (WM)

Job description

R10065806 Product Expert Production Planning SAP Americas (Open)

Location:

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Location: Remote

Job Description Summary: SAP Production Planning Product Experts are specialists in the SAP Production Planning (PP) module. Product Experts provide deep functional and/or technical expertise in their specific domain. They are responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of their module. They are responsible for gathering, clarifying business requirements and defining stories to streamline the execution and provide technical guidance and support to other team members.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Act as the subject matter expert to projects specific to SAP Production Planning (PP).
• Elicit requirements using interviews, process reviews, shadowing, document analysis, requirements workshops, site visits, business process descriptions, task & workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, identify, and close gaps, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and SAP functional requirements and deliver appropriate artefacts on standard templates, including but not limited to Process Flows, Technical Design, Solution Design, User Stories, Use Cases, GUI Screen and Interface designs.
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability, functionality and performance needs.
• Implement and deploy SAP template solution to achieve defined business goals to design, maintain, deploy solution for Production Planning (PP) and related cross functional components such as Order Management and Finance.
• Own and manage the design, documentation and implementation of processes and process improvements in conjunction with process owners, Super Users, SAP functional specialists and third-party as part of the SAP CoE. Initiates continuous improvements activities to increase the efficiency of the business information systems and meet global business objectives.
• Collaborate on technical feasibility: Work closely with Product Managers to ensure that product features are technically feasible and sustainable within given timelines.
• Define required functional, performance, security and compatibility tests to ensure all is working after integration of the product to systems.
• Orchestrate and plan system demos and tests.

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Are you a MATCH?

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science and/or Business Administration or Equivalent.

Required Length & Type of Experience:

• 5+ years of experience implementing SAP products, including experience with S/4 HANA.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in configuring SAP Production Planning (PP) solutions including SAP interfaces with external Planning and MES systems.
• 5 years of business and functional requirements analysis experience.
• Experience with troubleshooting and debugging complex integrated applications.
• Extensive experience as a team member on medium to large SAP initiatives.
• Experience with SAP Warehouse Management (WM) is a plus.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Experienced SAP Production Planning (PP) subject matter expert who is able to engage with business, extract business requirements and configure SAP solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse stakeholder group including executives, managers, business process owners and subject matter experts.
• Identify and manage senior stakeholders, evaluate their interests and establish effective communication channels ensuring effective stakeholder management and engagement.
• Specify requirements for toolset adaptations, acceptance testing of implemented solutions, develop migration strategies and plans.
• Ensure processes, deliverables and responsibilities are fully aligned with strategic priorities / goals of the organization.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees.

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children, including 14 weeks of paid childbirth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.

Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees’ dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

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Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Information

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Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at [e-mail] .

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