SAP Consultant

Valvoline Global

23h • Remote

About The Position

Valvoline Global Operations, an affiliate of Aramco, is seeking a Senior SAP Sales and Distribution Functional Consultant. This role is crucial for the company's ongoing SAP S/4HANA implementation and future rollouts. The consultant will be responsible for the hands-on design, configuration, implementation, and support of SAP SD and Order-to-Billing capabilities. The position involves translating business requirements into practical SAP solutions, providing advanced functional support, and driving continuous improvement for existing Order-to-Billing solutions. This is an execution-focused individual contributor role that may lead functional workstreams or coordinate smaller initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, business, supply chain, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 10+ years of SAP SD experience, including substantial hands-on configuration and production-support responsibility.
• Strong working knowledge of core SAP SD and Order-to-Billing processes.
• Demonstrated hands-on configuration experience with determination procedures, pricing, ATP and availability checking, copy control, deliveries, invoicing and billing, material determination or substitution, and rebates or Condition Contract Management.
• Experience delivering enhancements or projects through requirements, functional design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Experience troubleshooting complex SAP SD issues and identifying root causes across configuration, master data, custom development, and interfaces.
• Experience with customer/business partner data, customer-material information records, partner functions, material sales data, condition records, and other master data supporting Order-to-Billing.
• Experience documenting functional requirements and preparing specifications for technical development.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and take ownership through completion.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate with business users, SAP functional teams, developers, integration teams, and third-party providers.
• Execution orientation: personally performs analysis, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation.
• Strong SAP SD fundamentals and end-to-end Order-to-Billing process understanding.
• Functional depth and structured root-cause analysis.
• Sound solution judgment, including the ability to distinguish among configuration, master data, development, training, and process solutions.
• Effective collaboration with ABAP, integration, security, basis, data, reporting, and business teams.
• Testing discipline and attention to downstream and regression impacts.
• Ownership, accountability, and clear communication of status, risks, and dependencies.
• Continuous-improvement mindset focused on standardization, reliability, controls, and reduction of recurring incidents.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with both SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of relevant SAP GUI transaction codes and SAP Fiori applications is preferred.
• Experience with classic ECC rebate processing and SAP S/4HANA Condition Contract Management is preferred.
• Experience with standard ATP and S/4HANA advanced ATP functionality is preferred.
• Familiarity with EDI documents such as 850, 855, and 810, including ECC IDOC processing, S/4HANA event-based API integration, and interface-failure resolution, is preferred.
• Knowledge of integration points between SAP SD and FI, MM, warehouse, logistics, planning, and external customer systems is preferred.
• SAP certification in Sales and Distribution or S/4HANA Sales is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Configure, enhance, and support SAP SD functionality across the Order-to-Billing process.
• Apply hands-on knowledge of sales document types; item category, schedule line, partner, plant, shipping point, route, storage location, and output determination; pricing procedures, condition types, access sequences, and condition records; ATP and transfer of requirements; copy control; delivery processing; billing and invoicing; material determination and product substitution; and rebates or SAP S/4HANA Condition Contract Management.
• Translate business requirements into SAP configuration, functional designs, and technical specifications.
• Evaluate requirements against standard SAP functionality and recommend solutions that minimize unnecessary customization.
• Configure and validate solutions directly rather than functioning only as an advisory or coordination resource.
• Lead or execute SAP SD work for enhancements, continuous improvement initiatives, implementations, rollouts, and system upgrades.
• Gather and document requirements, conduct fit-gap or fit-to-standard analysis, and develop solution designs.
• Prepare functional specifications and collaborate with ABAP developers and other technical resources when custom functionality is required.
• Create test scenarios and perform unit, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing; coordinate defect resolution and production readiness.
• Support cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition-to-support activities.
• Serve as the Level 3 functional escalation point for the SAP application support team, providing advanced SAP SD expertise for complex, high-priority, or recurring production issues.
• Investigate escalations involving sales orders, pricing, ATP and availability checking, deliveries, billing, outputs, material determination, rebates, customer master data, EDI, and system interfaces.
• Perform detailed root-cause analysis across SAP configuration, master data, custom development, integrations, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Develop or recommend sustainable corrective solutions and coordinate resolution with Level 1 and Level 2 support resources, SAP functional teams, ABAP developers, integration teams, managed-service providers, and software vendors.
• Provide senior functional expertise during critical incidents, including business-impact assessment, workaround identification, solution validation, and clear communication.
• Identify recurring incident patterns, improve troubleshooting documentation, and provide knowledge transfer that enables support resources to resolve similar issues independently.
• Participate in after-hours Level 3 escalation support and on-call coverage for critical batch processing when required.
• Support SAP SD integration with Finance, Materials Management, warehouse or logistics systems, customer platforms, and other internal and external applications.
• Understand and evaluate the downstream and upstream impact of SD design decisions across Finance, Materials Management, Planning, Warehouse Management/EWM, Transportation Management, master data, and integration platforms.
• Apply functional knowledge of common Order-to-Billing EDI transactions, including EDI 850 Purchase Order, 855 Purchase Order Acknowledgment, and 810 Invoice.
• Analyze issues involving inbound and outbound EDI documents, ECC IDOC processing, S/4HANA event-based API integration, master data, sales orders, deliveries, shipment information, and invoices.
• Work with integration and development teams to determine whether issues originate in SAP configuration, master data, mapping, middleware, or external partner systems.
• Review functional designs and proposed solutions from internal and external resources to help ensure they are technically sound, appropriately standardized, and consistent with the overall Order-to-Billing solution.
• Work directly with business process owners, key users, and IT colleagues to understand needs and recommend practical SAP solutions.
• Explain SAP capabilities and constraints clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce manual work, improve reliability, and increase use of standard SAP functionality.
• Perform functional solution and design reviews for work delivered by internal resources and consulting partners, identifying gaps, unnecessary customization, integration risks, and opportunities to use standard SAP functionality.
• Maintain process, configuration, testing, training, and support documentation.
• Follow organizational requirements for security, compliance, change management, release management, and audit support.

Benefits

• Remote work environment.
• Ability to remain in a stationary position and use standard computer equipment for extended periods.
• Travel requirement: 10–15%, with additional travel as needed for key project milestones.
• Participation in after-hours Level 3 escalation support and on-call coverage for critical batch processing may be required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree