Procurement Specialist

Job Purpose:

The purpose of the SAP S4 HANA-Procurement Specialist is to manage and drive Procurement, Logistics, and Operations initiatives and provide company-wide support as a part of the SAP Center of Excellence team. This rolewill ideate and implement changes in material management and perform iterative reviews of ordering controls for adjustment based on forecasting and seasonality to best optimize distribution supply chain operations.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate extensively with Company & IT Leadership to provide expert knowledge and solutions
• Serve as a strategic business partner to define solutions for Procure to Pay and Material Management within SAP S4 HANA
• Work cross-functionally to guide Procurement, Operations/Sales, and Finance toward business solutions from conception to launch by connecting the technical solution to the desired business outcome
• Define and direct implementation, development and deployment processes
• Define best practice operational procedures
• Configure SAP standard solutions
• Document design decisions, configurations and development rationale
• Provide expert level support for Procurement/Logistics problems to resolution
• Participate in and/or lead various process improvement projects to increase efficiency or productivity within Procurement, Inventory Management and Operations
• Maintain inventory forecast with heavy focus on seasonal forecasting due to the nature of HVAC industry
• Serve as a guide for relevant functional capabilities and/or limitations within the SAP S4 HANA platform
• Clear Understanding of MRP and forecasting concepts and configurations
• Collaborate with teams across multiple geographies, and IT disciplines while representing the IT Business Operation teams
• Work closely with the Center of Excellence team to facilitate business needs, coordinating with the Inventory/Procurement, Support, and Development teams
• Work cooperatively with others
• Comply with all company policies and procedures
• Position may be remote, but requires regular physical attendance at meetings held at corporate office

All the tasks described in these Job Duties and Responsibilities are the essential functions of this job. If requested, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship or direct threat.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in configuring and deploying SAP ERP projects across Sales Distribution and Procure to Paylandscape
• Strong Functional expertise in SAP S4 HANA

• Previous experience implementing ERP solutions
• Previous experience with LE and Vertex a plus

• Previous experience in Procure to Pay, Materials Management Functional and Technical SAP S4 HANA implementations are a plus
• Previous experience in material replenishment for both distribution network (Hub and Spoke) and external vendors

• Ability to craft clear, compelling recommendations supported by strong analysis and business logic, and articulate them to the organization to gain support for recommendations
• Ability to articulate in documenting product requirements, writing functional specs and user stories including story acceptance criteria for the engineering team
• Strong business process knowledge and ability to map business requirements to standard SAP processes with minimal or no customization
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to work with technical and non-technical

Travel Requirement:

• 5% travel to branches and other operating companies requiring some overnight stay, travel to industry related conferences and training requiring some extended stay

Other:

This job description is not an exhausted list of all functions that employee may be required to perform, and employee may be required to perform additional functions. Mingledorffs and its subsidiaries (Company) reserves the right to revise the job description at any time. Employment is at-will.

The Company promotes a drug-free, alcohol-free workplace. Applicants being considered for hire must pass a drug test before beginning work. Refusal to submit to testing will result in disqualification of further employment consideration.

Attention Applicants:

The Company is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please let us know. Likewise, if you are limited in the ability to access or use this online application and need an alternative method for applying, we will determine an alternate way for you to apply. Please contact hrteam@mingledorffs.com for assistance with an accommodation.

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