Marico - Business Applications Manager

Position (Designation): Business Applications Manager

Dept/Division: BPT & IT

Grade: Manager

Location: Mumbai

About Us:

Marico is one of India's leading consumer products companies in the global beauty and wellness space. Marico makes a difference to the lives of 1 out of every 3 Indians, through its portfolio of brands in the categories of hair care, skin care, edible oils, health foods, male grooming, and fabric care.

Marico's sustainable growth story rests on an empowering work culture that encourages our members to take complete ownership and make a difference to the entire business ecosystem. To know more, kindly refer to https://marico.com/

Qualification & Experience :

- Full time MBA or MCA with 5-6 years of experience

- Experience in FMCG industry is a plus

- Ideal candidate could also be a campus hire with prior work ex and has pursued PGPx VLM (IIMC) or VLFM (NITIE) or similar

- 1 yr MBA programs focused on manufacturing digitization

- Experience in understanding business processes and able to convert to IT requirements (SAP and non-SAP applications)

- Sound Business process knowledge and process design skills in Procurement & Manufacturing processes

- Exposure of SAP Modules like MM, PP, QM, APO, IBP & WM and their integration with SAP and non-SAP landscape

Purpose of the role :

- To lead technology implementation for supply chain function which includes but is not limited to running the supply chain IT landscape efficiently, manage technical and functional upgrades and implementing cutting edge digital initiatives.

Required Skills :

- Should have good functional knowledge of Supply chain, manufacturing and Procurement processes

- Should be well versed with SAP modules like MM, PP, QM & WM Etc.

- Good communication skills, written and verbal with ability to convert data into clear and concise messages for end users

- Good Understanding of Project Management

- Able to Multi-task and work under tight deadlines

- Good MS-Excel Skills for analysing data

Key Deliverables of the Role:

- Key interface between business users and convert them to application requirements

- Monitor the operations and support IT processes in Manufacturing, and procurement processes

- Work closely as interface with Business and suggest appropriate applications

- Serve as a point between the Business function and internal IT (Applications / Infrastructure) for the resolution of problems, complaints and service requests related to applications.

- Collaborate with Consulting Organizations or IT Development team and ensure timely development and deployment of Solutions and related Applications in procurement areas

- Provide expertise, guide, and instruct end users of the applications, ensure correct SOP adherence, train users and enable easier adoption

- Ensure Functional designs, functional unit testing plans, and integration test scenarios as well as executing the tests including data loading and validations

- Ensure project communications and participate in project steering reviews

- Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills

- Exposure to ITIL and Project Management

- Reporting Relationships

- Will report to Head of Business Applications

No of direct reports: 1