Senior SAP Application Consultant, SD

NTT DATA•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

As a Senior SAP Application Consultant, Order to Cash, you will be expected to leverage your business process, industry expertise, client-centered, and SAP solution knowledge to lead and advise clients on their SAP SD implementation journey, ensuring you understand their needs to align SAP solutions and industry driven best business practices. SAP knowledge is required to support the primary objective of applying SAP technology to meet existing and/or optimized client business processes. Applicant can be located in any U.S. city and must be willing to travel up to 100% based on client and project needs.

Requirements

5+ years SAP SD project implementation - with strong solution and implementation skills within the variant configuration area.
Focus area: variant config experience, should include but not limited to:
Understanding of configurable materials and classes, characteristics, and dependencies.
Ability to design and maintain configuration profiles and BOMs (Bill of Materials) and routings.
Experience with object dependencies such as procedures, constraints, selection conditions, and preconditions.
2+ years leadership experience on SAP SD implementation projects or production support
2+ years integration experience with other process areas
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field or equivalent experience
Proven experience as a Business Process Consultant or similar role with a focus on SAP projects
Strong knowledge of SAP solutions and modules (e.g., SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA)
Proficiency in industry or business process modeling and documentation
Experience combining both technical skills and serving as a guide or change agent for clients
Professional communication skills (oral and written) and ability to confidently and effectively present or facilitate client sessions
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Responsibilities

Build strong relationships and trust with clients to understand their business processes, objectives and challenges
Schedule, prepare and facilitate workshops to demonstrate SAP best practices and identify business requirements
Act as trusted advisor and solution guide in both SAP and business best practices in your area of responsibility
Analyze existing business processes, in collaboration with the client, to identify areas for improvement and optimization in order to design future-state business processes aligned with SAP best practices
Identify, present, and guide the client through solution options to support their decision making process
Collaborate cross functionally with consultants and stakeholders on business requirements needing seamless integration
Ensure that SAP configuration aligns with defined business processes
Effectively manage tasks assigned to offshore counterparts and junior consultants to ensure on time deliverables
Ensure appropriate testing of configuration and development is complete and documented prior to handover to client
Lead activities in all phases of the SAP Activate Methodology
Collaborate with project managers to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget
Monitor progress in your area and support risk identification / mitigation plans
Demonstrate strong and effective active listening and empathy skills to ensure understanding of client's needs and expectations
Provide advisory services in both SAP and business best practices in your area of responsibility
Act as a mentor to both Junior and Associate level consultants within the organization
Take an active role in your own career development in the form of continuous education as well as annual goals and objectives
Support presales activities as needed, and the project team during Discovery phase to establish the project scope of work