SAP SD for a world leading pharmaceutical company which operates in over 100 countries and is head quartered in the United Kingdom. The candidate is expected to be a member of a team of functional consultants for a large SAP support and maintenance project, spanning several SAP landscapes across continents.

The candidate should possess broad functional knowledge in his/her domain and in-depth technical knowledge in the relevant SAP module. The candidate should have proven expertise in configuring and supporting SAP landscapes. 

Role and Responsibilities

• As a Functional Consultant, will be responsible for resolving any SAP issues reported by the business users and delivering all enhancements as required by business users.
• Responsible for completing all tasks assigned by team lead and project manager.
• Responsible for reviewing solutions designed by the team members and proposing improvements.
• Responsible for proactively working with business users for identifying and resolving recurring issues.
• Responsible for understanding and design EDI requirements with customers and external Partners.
• Owner of certain niche processes within broader domain area e.g. Electronic Invoicing, Nota fiscal, CFDI and EDI interfacing to 3rd party systems, etc.
• Prepare functional designs, make-system configuration and perform relevant testing and deployment of the designed business solution.

Required Skills and experience

• 3 to 5 years of experience doing direct configurations to the system, not only support or administrative roles.
• Minimum 1 full implementation of SD module.
• In-depth functional understanding for their respective work stream and expert knowledge in configuration and maintenance of SAP systems.
• Communicate closely with the ABAP development team to share technical specifications.
• Experienced and knowledge of key integration points between SAP modules (FI and MM).
• Good understanding of SAP IDOCS Processing.
• Experience working with External warehouses and electronic communication.
• Ability to understand business requirements from business users and prepare and review functional specifications.
• Very good understanding of integration of SAP modules in End-to-end business processes
• Ability to work in large and diverse teams.
• Should be able to guide and mentor junior members of the team.
• Strong sense of ownership and high level of accountability
• Should be aware of release governance processes and have experience in working on any incident management tool.
• Experience of various Estimation Techniques needed.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Well versed in English and Spanish. Excellent spoken and written skills.
• Willingness to work in shifts – Team may work in holidays or have heavy workload by the End of The Month
• Proactive approach to problem solving. 
• Experience working in a globally distributed team.
• Willingness to travel.

Nice to have

• Good understanding of business processes in the life sciences / pharmaceutical domain.
• Exposure to Run SAP (Solution Manager) methodologies. 
• Good understanding of GXP and SOX requirements. Should have working experience in a validated environment.
• Understanding of ITIL processes and Application life cycle management. 
• Portuguese is a plus.

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

Interested? Come and join our journey.