S/4 Data Expert

S/4 Data Expert – Procurement and Materials Management (P&MM)

Duration : 6 Months + poss extension

Location – Luton – x 3 days on site x 2 remote – maybe some flexibility

Rates : £650 day LTD / UMB –Outside IR35

Job Description

Organisational Summary

Job Summary

The S/4 Data Expert is responsible for supporting on the definition of business data requirements within the S/4 HANA design process, along with defining and documenting the S/4 Enterprise Data Standards and ensuring that existing ECC data is fit for purpose at the point of migration to S/4 HANA for a defined group of data objects / processes. The role is aligned to P&MM and is responsible for proactively engaging with the wider business (including data offices and governance forums) and other relevant partners to ensure that the S/4 data design meets business requirements, aligns to SAP standard where possible and that S/4 data can be used with confidence achieving a Quality Core.

Typical Accountabilities

• Support the definition, documentation and implementation of S/4 Enterprise Data standards related to P&MM, including master data, reference data and metadata – collecting the business context and ensuring approval in accordance with defined data governance. To include the development of conceptual models, business glossary and ontologies.
• Apply data, process and object expertise to support S/4 process design, acting as an integral part of the P&MM team, considering both business process and analytics requirements.
• Collaborates with current business data capability to ensure that S/4 design and the wider enterprise data design remain aligned (including supporting interim state).
• Influence in the prioritisation of data delivery as related to P&MM, defining and leading reporting on progress to relevant collaborators.
• Supports in defining the change journey from current to future state data design including completion of change impact assessments and outline of critical use case examples.
• Ensure that non-SAP system requirements are understood and considered in the data design!
• Contribute to the development of the S/4 Data Governance Strategy and Roadmap, in collaboration with the business data offices, the S/4 Data & Analytics leadership team and wider project delivery engine where relevant.
• Assist in the development of the S/4 Data Quality Strategy and secure its execution through the steering and agreeing the data quality approach for data within P&MM enabling simplified migration, interim state, and the ongoing management of data to ensure that it remains fit for purpose post deployment.
• Contribute to the development of the S/4 Cleanse and Migrate strategy and execution approaches and plans.
• Input to the cleanse and enrichment approach for data within P&MM in accordance with the overall data cleanse strategy.
• Provide support to project data migration processes, including the co-ordination of pre and post load business sign off.
• Ensure that data within P&MM aligns with the S/4 HANA Data Governance Framework and AZ Global Data Standards.
• Assist the S/4 Data Governance team in the creation of effective global procedures to ensure that each data asset is governed throughout its lifecycle

Essentials

• Significant experience and domain expertise in P&MM.
• Proven knowledge of how business data requirements support process execution and analytics, with the ability to explain complex data concepts to business users.
• Experience on change management journey from current to future state data design including completion of deployment user education, change impact assessments and outline of critical use case examples.
• Demonstrable experience of designing and implementing Data Standards (MDM and definitions) for a global enterprise with significant geographical and functional footprint.
• SAP solid understanding across transactions and reporting in an SAP environment, including an understanding of how data integrates within an SAP architecture.
• S/4 HANA implementation programme experience.
• Experience of Business/IT partnering for the implementation of Data Governance-related solutions.
• Experience with global working and across cultures.
• Demonstrate good communication skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives
• Ability to lead negotiations across a sophisticated group, to a target outcome.
• Consistent record of delivery and ability to effectively prioritise to ensure goals and outcomes are achieved

Desirable

• Coupa source to contract & P2P
• Experience in life sciences and healthcare.
• Experience in Data Governance
• Experience in measuring, managing and improving Data Quality.
• In depth knowledge of relevant key business processes.