Summary
Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas can quickly become extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences! Bringing passion and dedication to your job, there's no telling what you could accomplish. Are you deeply accountable for your work? Your love for product ownership and track record will prove critical to your success on our team. As part of the corporate Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) SAP team, this position will be critical for leading the SAP SD team and its associated portfolio (Retail GeoX & ASE related projects). We are seeking a self-directed and motivated EPM with vital SAP SD (Sales and distribution) skills, strong Order-To-Cash business process and configuration experience. You must have business process and technical leadership skills to design and implement secure, scalable, and sustainable solutions. Working with both onsite and offshore resources to make and test solutions, you will resolve issues under pressure to meet timelines, presenting solutions to multiple levels of management. Engage with Business and BPR partners; you will prioritize and strategize with them to ensure the projects and programs are implemented on time as per Business priorities. This is a tremendous opportunity for someone passionate about working in a highly integrated global solution platform and can drive initiatives. Be ready to build something great when you come here. Dynamic, inspiring people and innovative, industry-defining technologies are the norm at Apple. The people who work here have reinvented and defined entire industries with our products and services. The same passion for innovation also applies to our business practices - strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. You should join Apple if you want to help deliver the next amazing Apple product.



Description
The successful candidate will work closely with Apple business and technical teams across regions, external partners (logistics, payments, etc.), and other 3rd parties. Much of this interaction will be with regional and global teams in different locations and other time zones, so excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential.

The role includes responsibility for all aspects of project management, including:

Strong influence, persuasion, and excellent configuration and development skills to seamlessly integrate with front-end solutions (B2B e-Commerce, Apple Online Store, Point of Sale, Apple Care and Apple Service Engineering) and other back end solutions (SAP Retail, Data Warehouse).

Partner with Online engineering, Data Warehouse, ABAP, Basis, and other teams during the design and implementation of SAP SD functionalities to support Apple Business.

Managing SAP functional resources, working and negotiating with vendors for contractor resources.

Supporting the business during requirements gathering to understand the project's needs.

Level of effort and scoping, including careful management of change requests.

Creating and managing the project plan, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plan.

Ensure the project scope is clearly defined and the resources, budget, and timeline adequately deliver the required solution.

Driving the functional and technical gap analysis.

Driving scalable and flexible designs, ensuring adherence to global design principles, security and compliance standards, and documentation standards.

Design governance and solution architecture in a complex pricing and payments landscape.

Problem tracking and driving resolutions across teams.

Status reporting within the team and to business and technical management groups.

Ensuring adequate test cycles are defined and implemented to support a smooth production launch.

Track issues and manage the scope of changes during warranty support to ensure a successful handover to the production support team.

Education & Experience
BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with a demonstrated ability of SAP SD functional experience is preferred.

Additional Requirements

• High Tech or Retail industry experience is preferred.
• SAP HANA S/4 implementation experience with new SD related features will be an added advantage

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