Unilever - SAP Estate Manager

SAP Estate Manager

Pointers :

- Candidate with Exposure with SAP, Cloud (Other Clouds apart from IBM cloud).

- Total 10 yrs of experience (in SAP & Any cloud), having capacity management in large computing environment experience.

- Candidate working on infrastructure platform

Roles & Responsibilities :

The Estate Manager is responsible for managing the Estate Management team (which is comprised of on and off-shore resources with split accountabilities to support project based build/delivery work, KeC Activities and capability delivery deliverables).

The accountabilities will include the career planning (targets, objectives, timescales & training requirements), recruitment of new members, their initial and ongoing technical skills training and development programmes, quality assurance of the team's work (development & reporting of KPI- s), regular analysis and reporting of the team's activities (responsible for workload allocations & under or over utilization reporting back to Solutions Lead) and regular performance appraisals of team members.

- Responsible for the Estate (Capacity/Landscape) Management for the Unilever Private SAP Cloud, including ASCC, Legacy and Secondary landscapes and associated Model, Tooling and Functional (Backup) services underpinning the Private SAP Cloud.

- Sets out and drives Estate Management strategy in alignment with and in support of overall ES strategy

- Ability to influence at senior levels, both internally and externally.

- Ultimate responsibility for work of others and allocation of resources in support of SIC Estate Management activities

- Manage the team from career perspective, ensure appropriate training is received, conduct performance review of personnel, drive recruitment against known demands.

- Ensure team documentation is maintained to highest quality.

- Ensure appropriate governance/controls in place for team regards risk & issue mgmt., team reviews, demand and work assignment forums

- Keep current with core vendor technologies, act /provide consultancy to SIC team members (individually or through team)

- Maintain alignment to key stakeholders internally and externally ie SIC LT members, KEC/Project delivery, Capabilities, Solution's. Externally - IBM, SAP, HP, Microsoft (as part of agreed strategy with SIC LT)

- Always ensure where inefficiency or simplification opportunities exist, catalog and propose changes to drive change

- Ensure cost efficiency, simplification and standards approach to all project delivery activities

- Demonstrates analytical and systematic approach to problem solving.

- Communicates fluently orally and in writing and can present complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Prepared to take on challenging work outside own comfort zone

- Injects a sense of pace and urgency into the workplace, expediting decisions and getting stuff done in double-quick time; willing to address sensitive blockages without delay

- Escalation point for Estate Management issues

- Provide leadership and management support for the SIC Estate Management Function

- Ensuring estate integrity by correct placement of workloads

- Ownership and maintenance of the SAP Cloud Hosting and deployment standards including reviews and updates in line with current best practices and recommendations from third parties (IBM, SAP etc...).

- Ownership and maintenance of the SAP Private Cloud capacity calculators as the environments evolve and the deployment principles are updated.

- Collaborate with Innovate on and new system infrastructure and roadmap requirements

- Collaborate with and provide consultancy to Activate for all SAP cloud capacity requirements

- Identify, document and implement consolidation and cost avoidance opportunities

- LPM Planning, for balancing the estate and maintenance windows

- Attend technical forums as required

- Ensure decommissioning is undertaken in a timely and secure manner

- Control the complete demand funnel including all Future Forward Project activities and any KeC or Capability deliverables.

- Maintain and control all elements of Charge Back ensuring full Business/Finance Partner visibility of all charge-back opportunities.