Senior Solution Specialist, SAP Production Planning & Quality

Company Description

Você conhece a LDC? A LDC é uma das principais comercializadoras e processadoras global de produtos agrícolas, com um portfólio diversificado, que abrange toda a cadeia de valor, da originação à distribuição. Com atividades no centro da produção agrícola e de alimentos e guiados pelos nossos fortes valores, por um legado rico e uma visão clara, estamos comprometidos em trabalhar por um futuro seguro e sustentável. Ajudamos a alimentar e vestir cerca de 500 milhões de pessoas todos os anos, originando, processando e transportando aproximadamente 81 milhões de toneladas de produtos. Estruturada como uma organização matricial de 6 regiões geográficas e 10 plataformas, a LDC está ativa em mais de 100 países e emprega cerca de 18.000 pessoas em todo o mundo. Somos guiados por valores que norteiam todos os públicos em nosso trabalho. A ética e integridade fazem parte de todas as relações de negócio, assim como a humildade, comprometimento e diversidade.

Job Description

JOB PURPOSE & WORK ENVIRONMENT

Louis Dreyfus Company is a world leader in the processing of agricultural products & the merchandising of a diverse range of commodities. Founded & based in Europe, Louis Dreyfus Company enjoys strong regional presence in North & South America, Europe, Asia, Middle East & Africa.

To support its growing needs, Louis Dreyfus Company has launched a global ERP program named BOLD – BackOffice Louis Dreyfus and based on SAP S4Hana solution. This ERP program covers the following supply chain processes:

• Procurement processes supported by SAP MM connected to ARIBA solution and FIORI user interface.
• Commodities & non-commodities inventory management supported by SAP MM.
• Equipment repair & maintenance supported by SAP PM.
• Production Planning & Execution supported by SAP PP.
• Quality inspection process supported by SAP QM.
• Sales & distribution process supported by SAP SD.
• Transportation management supported by SAP TM.

In this context of multi-year global ERP programs, Louis Dreyfus is in search of Senior Solution Specialist, SAP Production Planning & Quality to support the rollout in Brazil which is one of the largest LDC scopes.

While developing skills related to LDC’s production business process in S/4 Hana solution, you will have the possibility to become a change agent and play a key role on our ambitious SAP Program.

We invite you to join our team if you strive to make a difference with your contribution & establish yourself as an inspiring member of our DT&A organization.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Sr. Solution Specialist, you are the reference for the SAP PP&QM solution.

You define and establish target solution, starting from an initial conceptual vision and evolving into a more concrete solution specification. You make high-level design choices according to the business strategy; dictate the standards, guidelines, best practices, and patterns and identify impacts on the information system. You will have to understand business requirements, prepare or review specifications, work effectively with other functional and technical team members, make recommendations, and converge all requirements into one/several solutions.

When specifications are set and solutions defined, you will also ensure the delivery of the solution hand-in-hand with the rest of the team.

In this position, you will have three main roles covering a large scope of responsibilities:

You are the gatekeeper of the PP&QM and it integration with the rest of the ecosystem:

• Understand the business needs and translate into a solution.
• With other team members, you design cross processes flows.
• Work closely and confidently with various departments.
• You are ensuring maintenance and enhancement of your process.

You act as trusted partner for long term & continuous improvement:

• Manage business relationship to define target priorities and business value.
• Ensure communication and be responsible of oneself indicators (measurable KPIs).
• Animate, inform, communicate, enhance, anticipate and perform with the other domains to ensure end-to-end design.
• Elaborate action plans for continuous improvements of the solution and solving recurrent incidents.  

You are part of the company that implements worldwide initiatives. You will be onboarded as project team member in S/4 worldwide roadmap.

As a summary:

You will have a full view of what is done in our team:

• You will be responsible of SAP PP&QM processes, including integration with the other flows.
• You will be making solution design decisions as an owner of the SAP PP&QM solution & processes.
• You will manage the business relationship to ensure priority and business value.
• You will enable long term value by proposing solution improvements.

Qualifications

 IT Skills

• [Must] Experience in IT best practices.
• [Must] Good experience in SAP PP (Production Planning and Execution).
• [Must] Good experience in SAP QM (Quality Management).
• [Must] Medium experience in SAP IM (Inventory Management).
• [Plus] Good experience in SAP QM integration with LIMS.
• [Plus] Basic experience in SAP Integration (IDoc, Web Service, etc.)
• [Plus] Basic experience in ABAP debugging.
• [Plus] Good experience in SAP Fiori.
• [Plus] Basic experience with JIRA and ServiceNow.
• [Plus] Good experience on full SAP rollout project lifecycle.

Business Skills

• [Must] Good PP&QM business processes understanding.
• [Plus] Good experience in food or pharma industry.
• [Plus] Basic experience in soft commodity trading practices.

Language Skills

• Fluent English.
• Native Portuguese. 

Additional Information

Possibility to work remotely one day a week.