SAP Principal Architect, Transportation Management

SAP Principal Architect – Transportation Management What you will do

In this vital role you will be a thought leader who helps to drive Amgen’s digital and innovation ambitions. Leveraging SAP S/4 TM architecture standards and through alignment of digital strategy and solutions to business outcomes, you will optimize the value of our technology investments, creating new value for our staff, our business partners, our shareholders and most importantly – our patients.

• Be accountable for helping drive the successful design, architecture, build, test and implementation SAP S/4 Transpiration management solution across all the Amgen manufacturing and distribution sites.
• Partner with business leads, business engagement teams to support the development of business cases for delivering the IT roadmap and Business strategy.
• Collaborate with Business, Operations IS and ERP solution architects (Order-to-Cash, Record to Report, Source to Settle) for cross‑functional integrations and E2E solution design.
• Serve as solution owner for the SAP transportation management solutions within the global ERP architecture team.
• Lead continuous improvements to drive IT effectiveness with the business and IT.
• Collaborate with business and operations IS teams to identify future business needs and prioritize resources/effort to support the delivery of business‑critical projects, enhancements and process improvements.
• Deliver on portfolio investments and ensure business value outcomes are realized based on prioritized business needs.
• Drive implementation of cross‑functional initiatives required for regulatory compliance.
• Use deep business knowledge to drive engagement on major IT initiatives.
• Influence architecture decisions and solution choices with business stakeholders and enterprise architects.
• Manage implementation vendor to ensure the effective execution of the projects and services, holding them accountable to project scope, SLAs and critical metrics.
• Drive configuration and development activities to meet business requirements through a combination of internal and external teams.
• Ensure all the required functional, configuration and technical design documents of SAP TM capabilities are created in compliance with GxP requirements and ERP architecture standards.
• Support Validation/QA teams on ensuring GxP compliance of SAP TM capabilities with the corporate standard for IT change management and IT SOPs following 21
  
  CFR Part
  11 and Annex
  11 requirements.
• Promote adoption of SAP industry best practices within S/4 transportation management and logistics execution workstream.

We are seeking a proactive, self‑motivated, collaborative, and passionate professional who is a leader with the following qualifications.

• Doctorate degree and 2 years of SAP TM implementation experience
• Master’s degree and 6 years of SAP TM implementation experience
• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of SAP TM implementation experience
• Associate’s degree and 10 years of SAP TM implementation experience
• High school diploma / GED and 12 years of SAP TM implementation experience

• 10 to 15 years of experience in SAP Transportation Management with minimum of 3 to 4 end‑to‑end S/4 TM implementations.
• Good understanding of SAP supply chain processes.
• Solid knowledge in SAP TM master data, Transportation Requirement Management, Transportation planning and execution, Charge calculation and Freight settlement.
• Adequate knowledge in real‑time tracking, monitoring, exception handling and analysis of Sales orders, deliveries, shipments (Freight Orders, Units, Parcels, Vehicles, Containers) and freight conditions (e.g. secured transportation) to provide visibility on status, location, history, analytics etc. in a production support environment.
• Hands‑on experience in OTR (order based) & DTR (delivery based) processes, including Selection, Planning profiles, Condition’s optimizer planning and scheduling, Freight Execution Carrier selection, Tendering / Subcontracting and Cost distribution.
• Strong understanding of inbound and outbound shipments (Domestic and International), Transportation Load Builder (FTL, LTL), different modes of…