Senior SAP Operations Specialist
Switzerland Global Enterprise
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Villeurbanne • 🇫🇷 France
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Senior
About the role
- Serve as the link between factory operations, the Central Operations Team, and the central SAP & Digital Technology (DT) organization.
- Ensure that all digital solutions and processes reflect real manufacturing needs and are fully integrated with SAP as the single source of truth for operational data and execution.
- Represent factory operations in all IT and SAP-related initiatives.
- Translate operational needs (warehouse, production, planning, logistics & quality) into business requirements.
- Assess existing operational systems; where current tools fail to meet operational needs, propose improvements or better alternatives.
- Ensure new digital tools are based on SAP master and transactional data; challenge solutions that duplicate or deviate from SAP.
- Act as the operational authority on SAP-related master data, transactions, and integration points.
- Identify and drive improvements in process efficiency and data integrity within SAP.
- Maintain close collaboration with production, planning, supply chain, and IT stakeholders.
- Collaborate with IT to implement, test, and deploy SAP-based and related digital tools, ensuring proper documentation and user readiness through clear training materials and coordinated end-user training sessions.
Requirements
- Strong experience in manufacturing, planning, warehouse operations, and/or quality.
- Strong functional knowledge of SAP MM, PP, WM, FI & QM (transactions, data flows, integration) in one or more of these modules.
- Ability to challenge and validate digital solutions based on SAP logic and data.
- Experience supporting or deploying SAP-based tools in operational environments.
- Proven ability to work closely with Business Process Owners (BPOs) and represent factory or regional operational needs in cross-functional digital and SAP projects.
- Willingness and ability to travel to factories as required.
- Lean mindset with a focus on process efficiency, waste elimination, and continuous improvement.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to convey technical topics in simple operational terms; proficiency in English and any required local language.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance: Not provided.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SAP MMSAP PPSAP WMSAP FISAP QMdigital solutionsprocess efficiencydata integritybusiness requirementsoperational systems
Soft skills
strong communication skillscollaborationability to challenge solutionslean mindsetcontinuous improvementability to convey technical topicscross-functional teamworkstakeholder engagementproblem-solvingadaptability