Procurement Analyst (Engineering To Procurement)

Job Description

Technical Competencies: Must have around 5-8 years of hands-on experience in SAP MM module with atleast 2 to 3 end to end implementation projects Must have deep understanding of procurement best practices, very good functional and configuration experience in following areas of SAP MM Material Master, Business Partner, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Outline Agreements, Release strategies, Pricing, Intercompany Billing, Special Procurement, output determination for messages, Reports. Inventory Management (Goods Movement, Physical Inventory count & Cycle counts, ABC analysis) Valuation and split valuation and Account Determination. Logistics Invoice Verification, Credit Memos, Account Payables, Classification. Must have very good hands-on experience in handling SAP MM interfaces with other applications through middleware. Understand data requirements in SAP for procurement and liaise with procurement team to map data from Engineering team, identify prerequisites and dependencies of data and data flows. Liaise with IT development team (SAP and Engineering) to develop interface architecture and design, secure signoff on data mapping Follow through for implementation, validate the changes for expected results and benefits, coordinate for UAT, change and release management and monitoring of the change post go-live. Timely reporting of the progress to stakeholders Functional Competencies: Role expects constant liaison with business users and the consultant is expected to have very good Communication skills (written and verbal) Very good analytical and problem solving skills; should be able to analyze the issues for root-cause and propose workarounds and permanent fixes Should develop details analysis on root-cause analysis, probable technical solutions (workarounds and permanent fixes), change impact analysis, request for change functional specification documents, detailed test plans, test execution validation of the solution and release management Should own the issue or task and engage relevant stakeholders and take accountability to drive the issue to closure Commitment to close issue with agility and in timely manner is very critical Good networking skills and should be able to interact effectively with all levels of management.