IT Systems Consultant - SAP

IT Systems Consultant - SAP

Job Title: IT Systems Consultant - SAP

Department: INT Networks Applications

Reports to: Manager - IT Applications
Location: In Office , Orange CT, Augusta ME, Rochester NY, Binghamton NY

The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from: $134,968.80 - $168,711

JOB SUMMARY:

The IT Principal IT Application – SAP is responsible for leading and overseeing all the applications that support the Business processes of the different Business Areas like distribution, transmission, construction, inspection, maintenance, and asset management under Electric and Gas companies.

Will coordinate with business areas Leadership team and the IT Leadership team in gathering, analyzing, characterizing, balancing, and prioritizing Project requests coming from Business Areas under its responsibility, as well as day-to-day application maintenance requests.

Focuses on understanding customer needs and meeting SLA's, assessing initial project requirements and providing ongoing IT guidance.

Responsible for defining and delivering the IT Applications strategy with Business Areas Strategy, Objectives, and Priorities. Through a team approach, links the business area needs with value-added services and IT technology strategy.

Responsible for managing the Application Map under its responsibility looking for Efficiency, Integration/Consolidation, and Evolution/Digital Transformation.

Effectively manages the development team under its responsibility on a day-to-day basis and supports requirements, projects, and roadmaps ensuring that resources are provided to meet project needs and maintaining relationships between the business area and IT.

MAJOR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Understands business processes for Electric and Gas Companies and manages business relationships. Conduct governance meetings with business leads and review Roadmap/Portfolio, Maintenance Service Requests, and SLAs adherence. Technical subject matter expert in SAP ERP areas. Has knowledge of related products and technologies and understands systems integration. Understands the value and impact of SAP technology as it applies to business processes. Provides technical leadership to projects, teams, and business initiatives as required. Accountable to work with project teams (Local and Global counterparts) and management to resolve technical issues. Maintains knowledge of emerging technological trends and utilizes this knowledge to educate both IT and the business community to better utilize SAP solutions that support and drive business decisions. Identifies and evaluates new technologies/services and establishes/recommends strategic direction. Finds solutions to complex technology issues, providing direction as required. Stays current on technologies within assigned business area. Leads, plans, coordinates, and provides activities associated with SAP technology from inception to completion. Able to adjust priorities in a dynamic fashion to account for changes in business needs. Supervisory responsibility for ensuring initiatives are carried out according to standards, recommends policies, and procedures. Mentors staff on technical subjects and business-related information. Responsible for SAP deployments supporting the Operations Organization, including ECC for NY, ME, CT, and MA companies and coordinating Global SAP changes. Works collaboratively with the business area and IT management team and staff in the development and maintenance of business applications/solutions. Responsible for managing the Application Map under its responsibility looking for Efficiency, Integration/Consolidation, and Evolution/Digital Transformation. Actively participates in IT strategic planning and other IT leadership processes as required. Manages implementation of medium/large scale SAP solutions/projects. Oversees external vendors/resources.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

Education Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required in IT, Business, or a related Field.
• 10 years or more of related field or IT equivalent work experience is required.
• SAP certification is highly desirable.

Skills/Abilities:

• Leadership and management skills.
• Project Management is a plus.
• Able to manage multiple priorities, challenging and rigid deadlines and technologies.
• Able to work with management team counterparts to meet priorities and resolve issues.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and IT individuals at all levels including the executive level.
• The ability to proactively identify innovative solutions to challenging problems and explain complex concepts and risks both simply and accurately to non-technical users.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Experience/Training:

• Experience must include 8 years or more working in designing, implementing and supporting SAP Solutions or managing Electric and Gas business demand.
• Demonstrate mastery in SAP Asset Management (PM Module), SAP structures, configuration, standards, object dependencies, and tables.
• Experience of the SAP modules: SAP FI-CO, SAP WMS, SAP HR or SAP Supply Chain desired.
• Experience with S4Hana migration/transformation is desired.
• Experience with full project lifecycles of SAP ERP systems is required.
• Application functional experience is required.
• Strong service delivery experience within IT.

Competencies:

• Develop Self & Others
• Business global view
• Results achievement and continuous improvement
• Initiative
• Innovation and inventiveness
• Flexibility and globalization
• Customer orientation
• Communication and influence
• Team Work
• Team management

Mobility Information:

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Job Posting End Date: November-3-2024