SAP MM/PP system analyst

As the world leader in serving science, we solve the world’s toughest problems, like giving cancer patients hope, ensuring water and food are safe, helping law enforcement solve cases through forensics and most recently, serving as the largest provider of COVID-19 solutions. Our Data Science, Digital and IT careers are a unique opportunity to apply your specialized skills and advanced experience in analytics, statistics, data science, programming, information technology and more to drive our Mission of enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. It’s truly a career where your work makes a positive impact in our world. When you join Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll make an impact inside and outside the company on work that matters. #TechWithPurpose

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:
Join our IT team at Thermo Fisher Scientific and contribute to technological innovation that enables our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. As a Systems Analyst II, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement, maintain, and optimize critical business systems. You'll leverage your technical expertise and analytical skills to gather requirements, design solutions, and ensure smooth operations of enterprise applications.

Work closely with business partners to understand needs, document requirements, and translate them into effective technical solutions. Lead the configuration, testing, and deployment of system enhancements while ensuring compliance with corporate standards. Provide technical guidance to resolve complex issues and drive continuous improvement initiatives. Your work will directly impact our ability to serve customers and advance scientific discovery.

• Assessment/blueprinting of enhancements and projects providing ensuring solutions meet or exceed business value propositions and meet architectural policies.

• Effective and efficient delivery of all functional SAP Project Execution activity to ensure that it is delivered in consistent, harmonized and optimal manner within the guidelines of the Project Management Framework (PMF)

• On time delivery of functional aspects Enhancement and Project assessment requests and blueprinting

• On time delivery, quality and cost effectiveness of functional aspects within Enhancements and Projects

• Delivery and support of incident/break/fix and production support

• Effectively manage the relationship with internal business partners

• Work with various internal and external vendor teams to deliver Change Requests within established SLA’s

• Collaborate with other SAP Functional Leads - Project Execution to deliver a seamless global project execution model. Gather and effectively use data to deliver continuous improvement

• Actively participate in project and enhancement reviews, maintain SLAs

• Partner with the Architecture team to design new solutions to meet business requirements

• Able to articulate solution options and using SAP configuration creatively versus developing enhancements

• Prepare functional specifications for conversions and enhancements

• Coordinate with development team and monitor the progress of developing activities and updating the status with respective teams

• Provide and support user training where appropriate

• Coordinate with Power/Super Users in resolving issues that arises during user training

• Help in the management of Root Cause Analysis for service delivery issues

• Actively participate in Major Incident Management (MIM) calls and Post-Mortem Reviews

• Preferred Fields of Study: Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, Engineering or related field
• Minimum 3-5 years of SAP execution or project execution/management experience
• Demonstrated experience with project delivery and ITIL in a regulated environment
• S/4HANA knowledge is advantage
• Agile Devops experience
• Demonstrated ability to gather, analyze and document business requirements
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact with all levels of stakeholders
• Knowledge of IT service management practices and change management processes
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., GxP, FDA, SOX) preferred
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities effectively