Assoc Director (SAP Vistex S\4 Hana)

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Own and drive Solution Design for Operational and Analytical reporting for Commercial sales contracts and revenue management 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 Leads (EPLs) 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 Experience in SAP S4 HANA and eco-system applications in the following areas for the Pharma and/or Food & Beverage industry Contract and revenue Management reporting ( Vistex Reporting) Experience in S/4 HANA.

• Strong Data and Analytics knowledge and skills with SAP BI/BW/HANA

• Knowledge and skills in SAP HANA modeling - AMDPs, CDS Views with good SQL skills in writing and understanding statements and procedures. Desirable to have some ABAP knowledge and good understanding to SAP SD module of Sales Orders, Rebates, Pricing and Billing etc.

• Experience in performing requirement analysis workshops with customers and document the output into blueprint, functional and technical specifications

• Experience in performance optimization standard methodologies in Reporting and Analytics with ability to troubleshoot

• Good experience in QA processes of testing analytics and reporting solutions Some understanding to Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning/AI tools like SAP PAL/Python desirable but not essential

• End to End project implementation experience with solid understanding to Waterfall and Agile methods.Knowledge with Vistex Vizi tool set added advantage

Why consider Novartis?
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!
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https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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