AES SAP PP Senior Associate Operate

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives. In SAP supply chain and operations at PwC, you will specialise in providing consulting services for SAP supply chain and operations applications. You will analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and offer training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of SAP supply chain and operations applications. Working in this area, you will enable clients to optimise their supply chain processes, improve operational efficiency, and achieve their strategic objectives.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

Job Summary -

At PwC we relentlessly focus on working with our clients to bring the power of technology and humans together and create simple, yet powerful solutions. We imagine a day when our clients can simply focus on their business knowing that they have a trusted partner for their IT needs. Every day we are motivated and passionate about making our clients’ better. 

Within our Managed Services platform, PwC delivers integrated services and solutions that are grounded in deep industry experience and powered by the talent that you would expect from the PwC brand. The PwC Managed Services platform delivers scalable solutions that add greater value to our client’s enterprise through technology and human-enabled experiences.  Our team of highly-skilled and trained global professionals, combined with the use of the latest advancements in technology and process, allows us to provide effective and efficient outcomes.  With PwC’s Managed Services our client’s are able to focus on accelerating their priorities, including optimizing operations and accelerating outcomes.  PwC brings a consultative first approach to operations, leveraging our deep industry insights combined with world class talent and assets to enable transformational journeys that drive sustained client outcomes. Our clients need flexible access to world class business and technology capabilities that keep pace with today’s dynamic business environment.  

Within our global, Managed Services platform, we provide Application Evolution Services (formerly Application Managed Services), where we focus more so on the evolution of our clients’ applications and cloud portfolio. Our focus is to empower our client’s to navigate and capture the value of their application portfolio while cost-effectively operating and protecting their solutions. We do this so that our clients can focus on what matters most to your business: accelerating growth that is dynamic, efficient and cost-effective.  

As a member of our Application Evolution Services (AES) team, we are looking for candidates who thrive working in a high-paced work environment capable of working on a mix of critical Application Evolution Service offerings and engagement including help desk support, enhancement and optimization work, as well as strategic roadmap and advisory level work.  It will also be key to lend experience and effort in helping win and support customer engagements from not only a technical perspective, but also a relationship perspective.

Minimum Degree Required (BQ) *: BE / B Tech / ME / M Tech / MBA / B.SC / B. Com / BBA

Required Field(s) Of Study (BQ)

Preferred Field(s) of Study:

Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ) *: 6-10 years of experience

Certification(s) Preferred: SAP S/4 HANA MM, SCM Area

Preferred Knowledge/Skills *:

General Skill Set

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Proven track record as an SME in chosen domain.
• Ability to come up with Client POC/POV for integrating/increasing adoption of emerging Tech. like Blockchain, AI et al with the product platform they are associated with.
• Mentor Junior resources within the team, conduct KSS and lessons learnt.
• Flexible to work in stretch opportunities/assignments.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Ticket Quality and deliverables review.
• Status Reporting for the project.
• Adherence to SLAs, experience in incident management, change management and problem management.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities by working with clients directly and leading the engagement.
• Work in a team environment that includes client interactions, workstream management, and cross-team collaboration.
• Good Team player. Take up cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.
• Escalation/Risk management.
  
  

Strong Knowledge In

• 6-10 years of experience in SAP PP and SAP QM.
• Implementation experience should be in version 4.7 upwards. ECC 6 would be a plus 
• Hands on experience in configuring / defining the following in the PP and QM module: 
• Basic Data
• Sales & Operations Planning
• Master Planning
• MRP 
• Production Orders & Confirmations
• Process Orders & Confirmations
• Make To Order 
• Make To Stock 
• Repetitive Manufacturing
• QM in procurement, Source inspection, Vendor evaluation, Vendor selection
• QM in logistics, incoming, in-process & outgoing
• Certificate of analysis
• Sound knowledge in QM processes
• Quality control, Notification, Test equipment & SPC
• Auditing
• Batch management
• Should have good written and oral communication skills
• Must be a good team player
• Experience along with profound experience in Support and testing projects
• Adherence to SLAs, experience in incident management, change management and problem management
• Be flexible to work in 2nd shift (2 pm IST to 11 pm IST)
• Experience in  S/4 HANA versions at the role of a Functional & Configuration consultant
• Besides, capable of dealing with onsite and off-shore teams to meet the project targets.
• Excellent cross functional knowledge and integration skills with MM-FI and SD.
• Exposure to interfaces like ALE/IDOC or EDI/IDOC with little technical knowledge
  
  

Preferred Skills

• SAP Certification on QM/PLM Module
• Used Solution Manager in the implementation
• Worked on integration with other modules like MM, WM, SD, PM, PP
• Experience in any ticket management tool and support relevant work environments.
• Good Communication skill in English
• Strong understanding of integration with other modules like 
• MM
• SD
• PP
• WM
• QM
• Exposure to interfaces like ALE/IDOC or EDI/IDOC with little technical knowledge
• Hand of experience in Tools like Service now, Solution Manager, Jira, HP4, MQC,LSMW etc.