Job Description

A Senior Consultant is responsible for serving as an SAP production planning functional specialist on an implementation of SAP PP/QM. A Senior Consultant is also responsible for gathering documentation, implementation, testing of their assigned area functionality and coordinating all applicable areas of functional overlap. A Senior Consultant validates as-is and to-be process flows and system integration from a user perspective, identifies potential work-around to system changes or limitations, identifies level of effort required to successfully implement changes to business processes and user activities A Senior Consultant documents and configures SAP modules to meet business requirements and serves as a user-level advocate to ensure excellent process flow and system designs. A Senior Consultant develops procedures and methods for unit and integration testing prepare string, unit and validation test scripts for all business process areas in scope. A Senior Consultant performs unit, string and validation testing. A Senior Consultant leads planning team in driving significant improvements in forecast accuracy, inventory turnover, and on-time-delivery (OTD) performance to give the company a competitive advantage in the marketplace.  Responsibilities

• Understand the values and vision of the organization and align the activities accordingly
• Protect the Intellectual Property
• Adhere to all the policies and procedures
• Work with other line functions to collect or provide relevant data
• Implements new or maintains existing business solution in SAP PP/QM area based on user requirements analysis
• Proposes, programs or configures, documents and tests business solution in SAP PP/QM application according to the functional and technical requirements
• Builds professional relationships with clients, management and team members to ensure delivery of proposed solutions, support for development of business possibilities and for personal development
• Contributes to high productivity and motivation of working team with the use of communication skills and cooperation; reaches and realizes project aims and outputs
• Keeps close communication with ABAP development team
• Should be able to perform configuration in SAP PP/QM areas to meet the business requirement to enhance the business process
• Responsible for deploying SAP PP/QM system to meet business strategy across functional teams and writing the technical documentation for required process
• Communicate and coordinate with business users, managers and respective leads to ensure the integration of processes and modules across organization
• Evaluate and amalgamate research findings to develop valuable insights and strategic recommendations for our client

Essential Skills
Job

• Experience in customer relationship management using highly professional verbal and oral communication skills
• Should be organized and focused on delivering research tasks within defined deadlines
• Must be dynamic, flexible and possess perseverance skills
• Must have strong knowledge on MRP, Planning Strategies, Safety Stock & ROP, Demand Management, MTO & MTS, Capacity planning, Special procurement keys, Production versions, Process Instructions, Industry Business Processes, Customer & Vendor returns process through defects recording, Result recording, Defects recording, Sample management, Usage decision and Electronic Batch Recording and QM notification
• Must have good knowledge about Shop floor related configurations, Operation execution, Batch Management, Operations out sourcing, QM processes, Master data, Batch Management, Notifications, Quality Certificates and Master Data (BOM, Routings, Work center)
• Must have strong experience working as functional consultant in development of Custom Reports and its Validations
• Must have knowledge on Plant rollouts (at least on PP, PP-PI, QM configuration setup)
• Must be able to prepare user training documents and deliver user trainings
• Must have knowledge on cross module integration (like PP-CO, PP-WM, PP-QM, PP-MM)
• Exhibit reactiveness and constructiveness at work such as, suggesting innovative and pragmatic solutions
• Utilize secondary research sources and techniques

Personal

• Should have understanding of business objectives and organization structure
• The candidate must have strong work ethics and trustworthiness
• The candidate should possess attention to detail and also maintain confidentiality and integrity
• Must be highly collaborative and be a team player with commitment to excellence
• Ability to work under pressure to achieve the multiple daily deadlines for client deliverables

Preferred Skills
Job

• The candidate should have an expertise in problem solving
• Should be proficient in Microsoft Office (Advanced)
• Self-motivated, fast learner with the ability to operate independently
• Should have proven track record of impacting results throughout career
• The candidate should be a highly versatile thinker who can assimilate knowledge and has understanding across different industries, products, technologies, disciplines etc.

Personal

• Demonstrate proactive thinking
• Negotiation and persuasion skills are required to work with partners and implement changes
• Should have strong interpersonal relations and mentoring skills
• Have the ability to work under stringent deadlines and demanding client conditions