Functional Design Architect - SAP

What you will do::
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Own and drive Solution Design for Sales & Distribution area through addressing all business requirements and opportunities while following Novartis architectural standards, quality and information security principles.
• Collaborate closely with the Global Process Owners (GPOs) and Enterprise Process Integration leads to suggest standardized and simplified integrated solutions.
• Champion the standardization and simplification of design, minimizing the custom solutions only for cases where Novartis makes a difference in the market serving customers/patients
• Prepare and run design workshops in the assigned “Products”, identify critical integration points and dependencies, propose solutions for key gaps, provide effort estimations while ensuring alignment with business and other teams
• Assure consistency and traceability between user requirements, functional specifications, Agile ways of working and adapting to DevSecOps, architectural roadmaps, regulatory/control requirements, and smooth transition of solutions to operations
• Deliver assigned project work as per agreed timeline within budget and on-quality adhering to following the release calendars

Minimum requirements :

• Bachelor’s degree in business/technical domains
• SAP certifications / trainings in specified module(s)/process areas
• 8+ years of relevant professional IT experience in the related functional area
• Proven experience in SAP Sales and Distribution and eco-system applications in the following areas for the Pharma and/or Food & Beverage industry
• Sales & Distribution, Order to Cash cycle (Order Management, Delivery and Billing
• Exposure working with Order entry tools 
• Experience in S/4 HANA Sales Order and Billing processes.
• Knowledge and experience in S4 HANA innovations like aATP, Advanced returns Management, Embedded Analytics offerings.
• Experience and knowledge about key architecture changes in S4/ Focus on User experience for commercial processes based on Fiori Apps
• Proven track record of broad industry experience and excellent understanding of complex enterprise IT landscapes and relationships
• Experience in Agile project delivery and general management in an international environment
• Excellent knowledge of business processes, experience in regulated system environment and ability to “speak the business language” when talking about IT subjects.
• Experience in advising peers and senior stakeholders on complex issues and provide complex, contextual guidance to influence actions of internal and/or external partners
• Any additional European language is additional benefit
• Experience in managing internal and external experts in different locations and time zones