Senior SAP Business Analyst

Thermo Fisher Scientific•Greenville, NC

6h•Onsite

About The Position

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. The Pharma Services Group (PSG) IT Team collaborates with Group/Division IT and IT Shared Services to deliver comprehensive IT services to PSG site's Business Teams. This includes IT architecture and governance, application services, infrastructure services, process improvement, and automation to help PSG division sites achieve strategic goals.

Requirements

Extensive knowledge of SAP S/4 in procurement, warehouse management, quality management, materials planning and process manufacturing.
Over 5 years of business analysis experience in the Pharmaceuticals or Life Sciences industry.
Experience implementing and supporting SAP solutions in regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environments, with a strong understanding of FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GAMP 5, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and Computer System Validation (CSV) requirements.
Self-motivated with the ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
Strong relationship-building skills with business and IT partners.
Superior customer service and communication skills.
Ability to work with all levels of the organization, both technical and non-technical.
Demonstrated ability to provide solution leadership for complex SAP Supply Chain initiatives, including guiding consulting partners, evaluating design alternatives, resolving functional challenges, and ensuring alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture principles.
Strong organizational change management capability.
Ability to manage multiple requirements and projects with short timelines.

Nice To Haves

Ability to travel moderately (10-15%) within the United States and Canada.

Responsibilities

Serve as the functional solution lead for Supply Chain ERP initiatives.
Partner with business stakeholders to analyze requirements, optimize end-to-end supply chain processes, and translate business needs into scalable SAP solutions that align with enterprise standards and business objectives.
Act as the functional lead for SAP Supply Chain projects by providing expertise across materials planning, purchasing, inventory control, receiving, warehouse operations, quality management and related integrations.
Guide solution design, resolve complex business process issues, and ensure solutions leverage SAP best practices while supporting operational efficiency, inventory accuracy, and service levels.
Partner with Supply Chain, Operations, Procurement, Warehouse, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and IT teams throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including business process analysis, requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
Assist in prioritizing business technology projects, ensuring alignment with technology that maximizes return on investment, and linking IT strategy with overall business/service line strategy.
Serve as the primary liaison between Supply Chain business teams and IT, ensuring business priorities are understood, functional requirements are clearly documented, and delivered solutions meet operational and compliance requirements.
Ensure that teams are adhering to and support quality procedures and policies.
Drive adoption of SAP Supply Chain best practices by providing functional guidance, user training, knowledge transfer, and support for business process standardization across the organization.
Develop functional specifications, process documentation, test scripts, and training materials while supporting system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), cutover planning, and hypercare activities.
Assist in IT architecture, strategy and roadmap planning.
Identify opportunities to optimize materials planning, procurement, inventory management, receiving, and warehouse processes through SAP standard functionality, process harmonization, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Uphold and implement best practices and drive practical process improvement (PPI).
Demonstrate advanced knowledge of supply chain business processes.