Role: S/4 Data Expert – Procurement & Materials Management
Role Type: Temporary – 6 Months + Possible Extension
Location: Luton – x3 Days On-Site per week / x2 working remote.
Your New Company
AstraZeneca (AZ) is in a period of strong growth and our employees have a united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need both our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. In this journey AZ must continue to work across borders and with partners and new colleagues in a fast and seamless way. The ambition, size and complexity of the organisation, coupled with the opportunities afforded by new technology, has led the Board to approve an Enterprise transformation programme (Axial) providing the opportunity for AZ to transform how it operates to support our growth and patient experience ambitions for the future.
Your New Role
The S/4 Data Expert is responsible for supporting on the definition of business data requirements within the S/4 HANA design process, along with defining and documenting the S/4 Enterprise Data Standards and ensuring that existing ECC data is fit for purpose at the point of migration to S/4 HANA for a defined group of data objects / processes.
The role is aligned to P&MM and is responsible for proactively engaging with the wider business (including data offices and governance forums) and other relevant partners to ensure that the S/4 data design meets business requirements, aligns to SAP standard where possible and that S/4 data can be used with confidence achieving a Quality Core.
Typical Accountabilities
- Support the definition, documentation and implementation of S/4 Enterprise Data standards related to P&MM, including master data, reference data and metadata – collecting the business context and ensuring approval in accordance with defined data governance. To include the development of conceptual models, business glossary and ontologies.
- Apply data, process and object expertise to support S/4 process design, acting as an integral part of the P&MM team, considering both business process and analytics requirements.
- Collaborates with current business data capability to ensure that S/4 design and the wider enterprise data design remain aligned (including supporting interim state).
- Influence in the prioritisation of data delivery as related to P&MM, defining and leading reporting on progress to relevant collaborators.
- Supports in defining the change journey from current to future state data design including completion of change impact assessments and outline of critical use case examples.
- Ensure that non-SAP system requirements are understood and considered in the data design!
- Contribute to the development of the S/4 Data Governance Strategy and Roadmap, in collaboration with the business data offices, the S/4 Data & Analytics leadership team and wider project delivery engine where relevant.
- Assist in the development of the S/4 Data Quality Strategy and secure its execution through the steering and agreeing the data quality approach for data within P&MM enabling simplified migration, interim state, and the ongoing management of data to ensure that it remains fit for purpose post deployment.
- Contribute to the development of the S/4 Cleanse and Migrate strategy and execution approaches and plans.
- Input to the cleanse and enrichment approach for data within P&MM in accordance with the overall data cleanse strategy.
- Provide support to project data migration processes, including the co-ordination of pre and post load business sign off.
- Ensure that data within P&MM aligns with the S/4 HANA Data Governance Framework and AZ Global Data Standards.
- Assist the S/4 Data Governance team in the creation of effective global procedures to ensure that each data asset is governed throughout its lifecycle
Essential Skills
- Significant experience and domain expertise in P&MM. Proven knowledge of how business data requirements support process execution and analytics, with the ability to explain complex data concepts to business users.
- Demonstrable experience of designing and implementing Data Standards for a global enterprise with significant geographical and functional footprint.
- SAP solid understanding across transactions and reporting in an SAP environment, including an understanding of how data integrates within an SAP architecture.
- Strong stakeholder management experience at all levels
- Experience of Business/IT partnering for the implementation of Data Governance-related solutions.
- Experience with global working and across cultures.
- Demonstrate good communication skills with the ability to influence others to achieve objectives
- Ability to lead negotiations across a sophisticated group, to a target outcome.
- Consistent record of delivery and ability to effectively prioritise to ensure goals and outcomes are achieved
Desirable Skills
- S/4 HANA implementation programme experience
- Experience in life sciences and healthcare
- Experience in Data Governance
- Experience in measuring, managing and improving Data Quality.
- In depth knowledge of relevant key business processes.
WHY ASTRAZENECA?
It's an exciting time to join AstraZeneca, a global business that's rapidly growing - there's a lot happening and even more to come. And we are a valued part of this journey. Respected partners across the business, we provide the platform that's going to power us to achieve more.
So, what's next?
Are you ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it's yours. Please apply with a copy of your CV.
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- Ethan Muse
