Description
SAP MM Procurement Project Manager/Lead - Japan - English speaking
One of our blue chip clients is urgently looking for a SAP Procurement Project Manager/Lead
Role
- Responsible for team management for identifying gaps between centralized SAP and as-is business process/legal compliance, identifying requirements, to-be business processes/systems, leading/managing implementation and testing.
- Support key user training and data migration.
- To understand global template (Functional coverage of globally standardized SAP, Global standard processes/policies)
- To understand high level local organizational structure incl external units, as-is business process flow, high level local as-is system architecture incl. interfaces, Middleware and high level data flow.
- To understand (and prepare if not available) the standards incl. procedures, check list, templates from the central team.
- To clarify as-is batch job scheduling, monitoring, error handling process and constraints.
- To identify and prioritize gaps, identify high level requirements/NFRs incl. forms/reports/conversions (Uploading and downloading).
- To identify to-be integrations, to-be integration technologies and to make list of to-be interfaces with key attributes such requirements descriptions, Real Time based/batch job, protocols, data types, frequency, data size etc.
- To lead and manage configuration team to ensure configuration is completed on schedule without any critical flaws.
- To discuss with development manager/offshore team (through the CORE team and their ADM factory) the high level custom functionality requirements incl. integrations.
- To coordinate configuration team and development team to detail the technical requirements.
- To clarify questions from the client team and from development team in a timely manner.
- To support the client team and the development team in testing, training, master data preparation and data migration.
- To make a daily communication, weekly and monthly reports to client team and Deploy lead.
Skill and experience
Must requirements
- Business process knowledge in Procurement (Physical Inventory, Stock movement, Domestic procurement, Import and Subcontracting with material supply)
- Business Blue Printing/Gap analysis experiences
- MM functional understanding (Technical/Configuration capability is NOT mandatory, but super user level understanding is MUST)
- 7+ year experiences in SAP project management
- Documentation skill
- Communication skill, Good Interpersonal skill and flexibility
- Physical, mental toughness
Nice to have requirements
- Experienced in Global SAP roll-in/out projects in manufacturing companies. Experience in pharmaceutical sector is preferable.
- SRM functional understanding (Not technical but super user level) is preferable.
- SAP functional experiences
- Logical thinking
- Presentation skill
Please send CV for full details and immediate interviews. We are a preferred supplier to the client.