Job Profile :

SAP IS-Retail Solution Expert - Focus Pricing (MDLS)

Overview :

Senior SAP Consultant role with core SAP IS-Retail expertise and focus area Pricing.

Key Responsibilities :

- Act as the inhouse MDLS technical expert, ensuring stability and performance of MDLS solutions, including interfaces.

- Review initial requirements against current business processes to identify gaps or opportunities for improvement.

- Stakeholder Management: Work in collaboration with third party service provider and steer the provider teams as well as ensure proper communication towards end users, keyusers and country management teams.

- Provide advice on technical implementation approaches and their implications and act as third level support to advice SLS. Troubleshoot system issues and lead root cause analysis with the service provider.

- Review design of end-to-end process solutions that meet Metro standards and collaborate with the Process leads and owners to evaluate solution design changes.

- Ensure architectural governance by enforcing adherence to established SAP standards design principles and standards as well as IT security standards.

- Oversee the development of custom extensions or interfaces, minimizing deviations from standard SAP functionalities.

- Support test preparation for future test execution.

- Support release activities, including cutover planning, system readiness validation.

- Identify opportunities for process or system optimization based on business feedback.

Qualifications and Experience :

- Professional SAP Expertise: Minimum of 8 - 10 years of experience in SAP IS-Retail process stream and related SAP finance modules, particularly SAP MM, SD including strong knowledge in customizing.

- Retail business process knowledge: A strong understanding of retail processes like procurement, inventory, pricing is essential.

Proficient in Pricing topics :

- Purchasing Price Calculation

- Condition types (like base price, freight, or discounts)

- Pricing Procedure configuration

- Access Sequence

- Condition Record

- Price Simulation techniques

- Foreign Currency configurations

- Promotion configuration

- Interfaces and job scheduling: Experience of working on different types of interface and job scheduling technologies in SAP for master data, Order creation, Invoice and others.