SAP TPM – Business Analysis

Skills

Description

This role is for a Business Analyst who will function as a liaison between Sales & Marketing business partners and the IT organization to provide technical solutions to meet business requirements. Possesses SC Johnson specific process expertise in the business units supported, as well as functional expertise in the full suite of applications supporting those processes. This role will also bring industry specific process and functional knowledge, as well as best practices into the development of technical solution design for the SAP TPM initiatives, especially in the SAP Trade Promotion Management (TPM), Trade Claims Management (TCM), Trade Fund Management (TFM) and Customer Business Planning (CBP) modules, along with TPM reporting.

Responsibilities

• Have a minimum of 6 years of working experience in Sales/Marketing or IT Business Analysis
• Minimum of 2 Years of relevant working experience in Trade Promotion Management Business Analysis
• Experience with TPM tools (Salesforce, SAP, Exceedra, etc.)
• Experience with Sales and Marketing Applications
• Good Communication skills with ability to work independently

Educational Requirements

• Collaborates with Digital Strategy & Transformation leads, business process owners and end users to clearly identify and understand business needs and requirements.
• As needed, supports business process redesign for new technology introductions. Identifies and evaluates application options to meet business needs worldwide, referencing SCJ specific and industry trends as well as application roadmap planning.
• Supports the development of reliable cost estimates of all components required to deliver application solutions.
• Translates business requirements into functional specification packages and manages changes to such specifications.
• Prepares comprehensive test plans for introduction of new applications or functionality to ensure expected outcomes and to minimize risk of business disruption.
• Provides diligent oversight of development execution and testing by on-site or offshore external resources.
• Works with the outsourced support partner to identify, develop, implement, test, and support changes and/or enhancements to the SAP system and reports, utilizing best practice project management principles and standards.
• Understands and analyzes business processes and functions to identify opportunities for continuous improvement including standardization and automation.
• Ensures the system change requests adhere to the SAP Global template and Change Control guidelines and do not break existing configuration and custom programs
• Ensures existing applications are performing to service levels, utilized, at relevant versions and meeting SCJ security and audit requirements.