PepsiCo Looking for Architect,IT – SAP DSD Lead – PGT EAA at Hyderabad, Telangana Full Time

Job Description

Main Purpose of the role

T – SAP DSD Lead for PGT EAA (Europe, AMESA & APAC) Sector

PGT Program across Europe, AMESA, APAC sectors is 4+-Year, Multi-Workstream, Multi-Vendor Program with a total spend $600 Million based on amount approved by Board of Directors and latest ESP forecast made in 2021 .

This is a major transformation project to implement harmonized and simplified business processes enabled by an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) system utilizing SAP S/4 HANA business suite. The project will replace legacy solutions across these markets and will implement the PGT solution for Record to Report (RTR), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Order to Cash (OTC), Purchase to Pay (PTP), Make to Deploy (MTD), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Forecast to Schedule (FTS), and Trade Promotional Management (TPM)

Objectives of the role:

• This role will be directly responsible for leadership of SAP Direct Store Delivery (DSD) process leveraging SAP DSD / SDD solution with PGT Template for Europe, AMESA & APAC Sector SAP deployments through PGT Program.
• This role ensures Global Template solution supports the SAP S/ Direct Store Delivery (DSD) process for PepsiCo’s markets, solves for any design gap within the template governance and delivers deployments successfully.
• This role collaborates in standardization of the business processes and ensuring that the configured system confirms to the Global Template approach while meeting the needs of the business.
• This role will adopt and adhere to PepsiCo Agile Methodology (PAM) principles for the Global Template project.
• This role will also be accountable for the integration other key functions in other value streams, such as FTS, MTD, OTC & RTR and local handheld applications for frontline workers in local markets.

Accountabilities

Drive end to end delivery of the in-scope PGT projects in the sector for Direct Store Delivery – Accountable to partner with the Business leads and Global Solution Design leads to deploy the end to end solution for the sector.

• Decision-making for Direct Store Delivery, localization of functionality in the Global Template during deployment – Accountable
• Collaborate with the Direct Store Delivery Global Process Leads to implement and deploy the Global Template – Consult/Execute
• Partner with OTC Leaders in Direct Store Delivery space to propose, review and validate solutions required for deployment – Accountable
• Work with extended partner team in reviewing all Configuration Requests and Change requests within sprint.
• Partner with the OTC Lead and RTR team on the Order Management / Settlement Accounting / to implement and deploy the end-to-end solution – Consult / Execute
• Actively engage and educate business process owners on solution optimization, simplification and standardization capabilities – Consult / Execute
• Ensure global lift and shift opportunities are deployed across the sectors – Consult / Execute
• Collaborate with all scrum teams to implement and deploy the end-to-end Global ERP solution leveraging agile methodology – Consult / Execute
• Work closely and collaborate with scrum team members to ensure a prioritized and sufficient product backlog for the teams to work against – Consult / Execute
• Participate in key Sprint planning, retrospectives and other key ceremonies – identify, monitor and implement key agreed-upon improvements – Consult / Execute

o Adopt and adhere to PAM principles and values

o Adopt development practices which focus on quality and value, while increasing efficiency, and minimizing waste

o Foster an environment where communication, teamwork, and innovation are encouraged

o Help to implement Agile engineering best practices such as continuous integration, automation of testing and delivery, and continuous peer review within teams.

• Owns vendor partnerships with service provider vendors – Accountable to ensure vendors are meeting their project commitments in compliance with Master Service agreements and SOW’s.
• Ensures adherence to the internal IT operating model, including technology standards, project life cycle methodology, release management, change management, and other related processes and procedures, SLAs and controls compliance – Accountable to ensure proper governance is followed for all Supply Chain Execution areas.
• Own the hiring, onboarding, performance management and career and talent development for PepsiCo associates assigned to the data streams across projects – Accountable to ensure performance management activities are in place
• Own project status / communication for all related work in the project – Accountable to ensure project status reporting is done weekly and senior exec level communications are timely and accurate

Qualifications/Requirements

Years of experience

• 8+ years of experience configuring, deploying and managing SAP ERP with a focus on SAP SD, SAP LE, SAP DSD modules with integration experience to Handheld solutions for go to market area.

Mandatory Technical Experience

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree is required. Computer Science or Information Systems is preferred.
• 8+ years of experience configuring, deploying and managing SAP ERP with a focus on SAP SD, SAP LE, SAP DSD modules with integration experience to Handheld solutions for go to market area.
• 4+ years of experience in SAP S/4 prefered
• Hands on experience on various SAP DSD models like Pre-Seller route, Delivery Driver, Van sales, Mixed routes.
• Experience around setting up of SAP Master data like Customers, Routes, Visit plan , Task and Activities for DSD routes .
• Experience on mapping of order capture, management and provisioning of goods or services on routes for sales, Return of finished products , empties,Free goods, Exchanges for products.
• Good working knowledge of pricing agreements and route settlement processes.
• Knowledge on Integration with with mobile devices, warehouse systems and advance transportation systems for route planning, load building, route execution and settlement.
• Proven experience in the governance of a global ERP template
• Deep understanding of project test phases and testing automation tools
• Fully aware of the SAP security design implications through global roles. Familiar to the GRC best practices in large corporations as PepsiCo
• Dispatches standard SAP quality issues with OSS (Online SAP Services) and follows up the required break fixes
• Demonstrated Leadership skills, including planning, organization, prioritization, collaboration
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization
• Ability to work flexible hours based on varying business requirements
• Knowledge and experience in the following tools, disciplines and processes are nice to have: SAP SolMan 7+, Azure DevOps, Quality Center and MS Project
• Solves complex problems within their work team
• Strong influencing, facilitating, and consulting skills in working with stakeholders at all levels in the organization and across departments
• Ability to quickly adapt to changes in timelines and sequences
• Ability to work collaboratively across project teams.
• Possess strong analytical skills
• Adaptability and flexibility including ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change
• Ability to clear obstacles for teams to deliver
• Experience with Europe, AMESA and APAC preferred

Mandatory Non- Technical Skills

• Having deep SAP SD, DSD knowledge & experience with ability to manage concurrent Direct Store Delivery solution rollouts.
• Having broad market exposure across Europe, AMESA & APAC to understand store delivery nuances of the countries in these sectors.

Relocation Eligible: Eligible for Standard Relocation

Job Type: Regular