Solution Architect - SAP IS Retail

MindGen Solutions is a recruitment firm and specializes in hiring managerial and leadership talents across technologies and domains.

We have an opportunity for a Solution Architect - SAP IS Retail for one of our MNC client, which provides IT Services and is one of the world's largest consulting, outsourcing and professional services company.

Job Description:

Experience: Strong experience of 10+ years in supply chain function of Consumer Product or Retail industry. SAP experience of 4+years with at least 2 end to end project implementation experience in CP & R Industry.

- Candidate should possess ability to bring in thought leadership in supply chain system landscape for CP or R industry.

Total Experience needs to be 16+ years.

SAP Experience: Should have experience of at least 2 End-to-end Implementation in CP & R Industry.

The candidate should have a good understanding of integration aspects with other ECC and planning systems. Good understanding SAP HANA and its applications on consumer product industry.

Actual implementation experience in IS Retail would be advantageous.

Candidate should have worked on RFPs, estimation, Pre-sales activities and knowledge of Project Management skills. Candidate should independently be able to conduct Blueprint design sessions and drive the client business towards design consensus. He/ She should be able to guide the development, data and test teams.

Candidate should have good exposure of managing offshore centric projects facing clients directly.

Soft Skills:

- Excellent communication and customer interfacing skills

- Incisive analytical and problem solving kills

- Good team player with presentation skills

- Consulting skills - articulation, ability to push back/ persuade business to get consensus on design principles, playback design principles to obtain sign-offs, etc.

- Flair for learning new technologies

- Good academic record

Others:

- Resource should have managed PP process on large projects/ multiple projects

- Good overview of project methodologies (viz ASAP)

- Excellent communication, Open to long term travel /deputation onshore

Role Description:

- Performs a consulting advisory role on different projects

- Adds and improves the specific subject and domain knowledge of the offshore team

- Understands trends and new developments in respective field

- Provides Thought leadership in the respective field

- Enables capability ramp up of other consultants

- Independently handles projects with a team of developers - sets goals & plans schedule for completion of projects.

- Monitors and control progress

- Develops specification and does requirement analysis Prioritizes/sets QA standards.

- Participates in systems requirements & design reviews.

- Provides leadership to the group, does appraisals of team members.

- Responsibility for budgets, cost schedule and delivery.

- Actively manages the client relationship including the commercials, risks and opportunities of the development

- Acts as the point of escalation for the client

- Escalation & resolution management

- Status reporting