Solution Manager, SAP Procurement

Company Description

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.

Job Description

As a Solution Manager, you are the expert and the referent of the Supply Chain domain (business and IT processes), knowing it from A to Z and understanding how all pieces work together.

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 supply chain processes & products and it integration with the rest of the ecosystem :

Understand the business needs and translate into a solution
With other leads, 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 processes leads to ensure end-to-end design.
Elaborate action plans for continuous improvements of the solution and solving recurrent incidents.

You will be supporting and coaching the other team members for the most complex topics:

Perform Knowledge transfer to other team members and develop their autonomy in the solution.

You are part of the company that implements worldwide initiatives. You will be onboarded as core 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 MM, PM, PP & QM, processes, including integration with finance flows.
You will be making solution design decision as an owner of the supply chain solution.
You will manage the business relationship to ensure priority and business value.
You will enable long term value by proposing improvement.

IT Skills

[Must] Experience in IT best practices.
[Must] Good experience in SAP PM and SAP MM
[Plus] Basic experience in SAP PP & QM.
[Plus] Basic experience in SAP Fiori.
[Plus] Experience with test campaign executions & automation tool.
[Plus] Experience with JIRA and ServiceNow.
[Plus] Experience on full SAP project lifecycle

Business Skills

[Must] Basic supply chain business processes understanding.
[Plus] Experience in soft commodity trading practices.

Soft Skills

[Must] Great relationship and ability to work with multiple teams.
[Must] Ability and flexibility to work independently as well as in a team
[Must] Ability to learn fast and adapt to new solutions.
[Must] Ability to demonstrate Critical Thinking.
[Must] Strong analysis, synthesis & communication capacity (written & oral).
[Must] Flexibility/adaptability in a quick changing background scenario & no uncomfortable feelings in front of ambiguity.
[Must] Good coordination skills
[Must] Business customer focused and high proactivity
[Must] Good decision-making skills
[Must] Analytical and problem-solving Skills
[Must] Be fluent in English, written and spoken
[Must] Be able to work under pressure and tight deadlines

Experience

[Must] 10 years proven experience in IT projects.
[Must] Experience with SAP.
[Must] Experience working in a large IT team & collaborative environment.
[Plus] International multi-cultural environment.

Languages

English (Fluent)

Education

Master degree (or equivalent) in IT, Supply Chain, Business school or equivalent.

Location

The job is located in at one of the following at Louis Dreyfus Company offices: Lyon (France) or Sofia (Bulgaria).

Additional

You will report to a manager in Lyon, France.
A few international travels might be required.

Additional Information

Additional Information for the job

Diversity & Inclusion

LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.

LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability

Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us

What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Our Benefits