Job Description

Job Summary

The purpose of the role of SAP Functional Consultant consists of two main areas of responsibility, project delivery and service delivery. Each individual at this level can be responsible for activities within project delivery, service delivery or a combination of both areas. This is a role which involves working largely on their own initiative or as part of SAP Design or service team.
Project delivery responsibilities
The SAP Functional Consultant Design will lead and support the Design Governance within their own SAP COE Solution Area, recommending and approving designs to take forward to implementation and producing High Level designs for new systems and changes of any size and complexity. They will be looked to as the expert within their Functional Area to understand, evaluate and articulate recommendations for solutions that provide the best outcome for customers. They will also be expected to configure SAP modules in line with design requirements as well as peer review designs or configuration from other Functional Consultants in the SAP area.Service delivery responsibilities involve helping to sustain and optimize SAP Applications by ensuring they are managed effectively. They are the single point of contact for a specific set of SAP applications or components, providing application specific expertise

Job Responsibilities

• Creates, develops and maintains internal business requirements for complex issues by means of interviews, workflow analyses and facilitated discussions with users.
• Translates users complex business requirements into detailed functional designs for development, testing and implementation.
• Develops, configures, integrates functional changes for complex SAP Components including, but not limited to SAP S4, SD or MM, Pricing master data (store prices), POS outbound, Purchase info records, deals and promotions or PMR Master Data, POS outbound, Vistex AIF, Monitoring etc.
• Performs complex functional reviews, writes functional specifications, project planning and developments in SAP ABAP, integration and BTP areas
• Develops and implements SAP standards within designs and challenge where SAP standard is not proposed.
• Develops complex test cases for unit, regression, performance and user acceptance testing for SAP components, but not limited to SAP S4, SAP Fiori, SAP SLT, SAP BW, SAP PI or PO, SAP BODS etc
• Stays abreast of industry leading best practices and brings them to the attention of the leadership team for innovative application. Develop strong partnerships (and relationships) with internal and external stakeholders to meet business needs.
• Expert in SAP Solution Manager, such as Charm and Monitoring (technical and E2E)
• Sharpens the saw Displays expertise in knowledge bases and certifications such as but not limited to Learning Hub etc.
• Experience delivering complex projects across an IT landscape
• Develops and owns project plans of moderate scope while ensuring timely delivery of deliverables to meet project or program milestones.
• Performs integration of SAP SaaS solutions with the existing SAP solutions.
• Anticipates and prevents risks and issues impacting business rules, functional requirements and specifications.
• Participates in and contributes to managing the scope of applications and related changes.
• Creates training materials and may assist with user orientation and training.
• Collaborates with stakeholders on the evaluation of the feasibility, effort and costs to implement requirements.
• Interacts with internal and external peers and managers to exchange complex information related to areas of specialization. Serves as a liaison between engineering, quality assurance and non-technical stakeholders throughout the development and deployment process.
• Anticipates, prevents and eliminates problems and roadblocks before they occur.
• Performs as subject matter Expert to less experienced team members. May participate in teaching and training members of work team.
• This role is assigned to important or complicated undertakings is operates with little need for guidance.

About Walgreens and WBA
Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) is included in the U.S. Retail Pharmacy and U.S. Healthcare segments of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 170-year heritage of caring for communities. WBA\xe2\x80\x99s purpose is to create more joyful lives through better health. Operating nearly 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day. Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing a wide range of pharmacy and healthcare services, including those that drive equitable access to care for the nation\xe2\x80\x99s medically underserved populations. To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with fully integrated physical and digital platforms supported by the latest technology to deliver high-quality products and services in communities nationwide."

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 4 years of experience in SAP Engineering, Software Engineering or similar field OR a High School Diploma or GED and at least 7 years of experience in SAP Engineering, Software Engineering or related field
• At least 2 years of experience with technical design process and models. Experience in Engineering, Software Engineering or similar field
• At least 2 years of experience with requirements specification and development, such as process or functional requirements definition methods, JAD or RAD sessions, use case development, process flow diagrams. Experience writing code for moderately complex applications
• At least 3 years of expertise in SAP IS Retail or functional experience in Retail operations and processes with a focus on merchandising areas of Pricing, Promotions, Markdowns, Assortment Planning, Listing and Vendor Funding or Rebates. SD Pricing, Retail pricing, Assortment, and Listing execution with good understanding of Retail Master data (site master, article master, business partner) and integration to other SAP modules such as CAR, BW etc SAP PMR, Vistex
• Expert with extensive knowledge and experience with SAP Enterprise Structure. Good knowledge of Data Exchange such as EDI, ALE, IDOCS and Interfaces between SAP and non SAP systems. Good skills in data administration, design, and architecture.
• Expert in integrating SAP SaaS solutions with the existing SAP solutions.
• Implemented at least 4 Greenfield or Brownfield SAP full implementations
• Experience designing or building complex SAP applications or automation or deployment automation.
• Expert in automation test or deployment scripts
• Functional expertise in cloud based SAP S4, CAR, BW implementations and coding or scripting solutions to address moderately complex problems
• Expertise in operational topics before they become issues and recommending and implementing strategies mitigating them. When issues do occur, triage issues to identify the correct problem fast and mitigate them from occurring again.
• At least 1 year of direct leadership, indirect leadership and or cross functional team leadership.
• Willing to travel up to or at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of IT capabilities, methods and technologies
• Experience undertaking configuration activity in accordance with designs and configuration
• standards.
• Experience with peer review designs
• Experience driving system improvements
• Experience with the design and development of IT solutions
• Experience working in an outsourced environment
• Experience with application management
• Knowledge of incident, problem management and change management tools
• Experience dealing with users and suppliers
• Knowledge of retail environments, including retail process
• Knowledge of IT retail environments
• ITIL Qualification at Expert level
• 10 plus years of experience in SAP Functional scope for their area
• Expert in SAP Retail and Finance solution programmer
• Experience working in a large retail organization
• Commercial and technical experience, including experience working within an IT service area.
• Experience driving relationships with the business, stakeholders and partners.
• Experience assessing business proposals, project scoping, feasibility analysis and cost
• estimation.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders on the solutions for proposed initiative

Walgreens