SAP Smartfield Senior Manager - Consumer Goods

Accenture•Chicago, IL

1d•Remote

About The Position

Accenture’s SAP practice brings “Compressed Transformation” to life using new design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech like BTP, IoT, Cloud automation, ML and AI. We built myConcerto platform, which serves as a repository of Industry Best Practices, Business Process Hierarchies, Solution Templates, Business Process Documents, Strategic and Foundation decisions, our tools, and methodologies and much more enabling our clients to big wins. Ready to learn as much as you can? We train our people on "Compressed Transformation" SAP like S/4HANA and Cloud, and we offer classes and support through our 50,000+ member community. It’s also nice to know our hard work doesn’t go unrecognized. Accenture is the number one industry recognized integrator for the top three Hyperscale Cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform)—and we’ve helped transform hundreds of companies to the Cloud. We have received countless awards such as Pinnacle awards from SAP as well. A transformation maven with the skills to help clients meet the challenges of digitization. Your human superpower? Using your know-how, creativity, and analytical powers to solve clients’ most complex business problems to help their companies do more. You’re as comfortable leading projects and teams as you are diving into the details of workstreams and configuring SAP solutions. Or you specialize in one or the other, our practice covers the functional & process side of SAP as well as the technical development & technical architecture. Additionally, you have the communication and people skills to inspire teams to bring their A-game. You are an SAP migration, upgrade, and conversion subject matter advisor with deep experience helping clients meet the challenges of planning through a complex transformation journey, platform enablement, digitization and particularly moving to S/4HANA from both a sales and delivery perspective. You’re in your element using your technical architecture know-how and boss-level creative and analytical powers to solve clients’ most complex business and technical problems so their companies can do more. Communication and people skills? You have both in spades and you’re as comfortable inspiring teams to bring their A-game as you are presenting to the C-suite. You help with aligning technology with business strategy and goals as the SAP Smart()field (Upgrade, Migrations, and Conversions) Subject Matter Advisor who works directly with the client and account teams, gathering requirements to analyze, design, and/or implement technology best practices to meet their goals of moving towards the future. They are sought out as experts internally and externally for their deep technical, functional, industry, domain knowledge, or service offering expertise. They enhance Accenture's marketplace reputation.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of professional experience
Minimum of 5 years’ experience in an advisory capacity with ECC to S/4HANA upgrades - Brownfield Vs Hybrid Vs Greenfield
Experience leading or actively participating in 2 or more ECC to S/4HANA upgrade programs
Experience helping clients plan their overall upgrade/ transformation journey
Minimum of 1 year of experience with SAP RISE and the related technologies
Minimum of 2 years of experience in managing sales opportunities while working closely with Client and Account Teams
Minimum of 2 years of experience with additional SAP Technology related tasks and such, including but not limited to: downtime optimization approaches - Near Zero Downtime (nZDT) or Downtime Optimization Conversion (DOC), reviewing SAP Readiness or SI Check reports, selective Data Transition (SAP DMLT/SDT, SNP - Bluefield, CBS etc.), SAP on Hyperscaler (Azure, AWS, GCP) and custom code remediation and clean core approaches
Experience supporting the Consumer Goods Industry/clients
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate’s Degree with 6 years of work experience)

Nice To Haves

You have experience with Project delivery leveraging AI Technologies
You have experience with migration of PI/PO SAP middleware to BTP IS

Responsibilities

Represents the Smart()field Team and accountable to the overall Smart()field Pursuit Lead to deliver the solution.
Experience storytelling, providing collateral, quarterbacking pursuits, determining cross-tower SMEs, and bringing ruthless standardization to the solutioning cycle.
Contributes to overall migration plan from technical / architecture end.
Leads high-level and low-level architecture design.
Leads technical/architectural challenges/troubleshooting in projects to find appropriate solutions.
Participates with client and vendors on technical architecture and design topics.
Engages the client to drive migration/conversion meetings/workshops, present migration/conversion plan.
Co-ordinate & collaborate among different towers and work closely with other vendors/partners
Co-ordinate internally with the account leadership, QA Director etc.
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business and client requirements