Senior Business Analyst - Planning & Manufacturing | SAP​/IBP​/S&OP

Position: Senior Business Analyst - Planning & Manufacturing | SAP / IBP / S&OP
Senior Business Analyst - Planning & Manufacturing | SAP ECC6 / S/4

HANA / IBP / S&OP
Permanent
c.£90k - £95k + £7.2k Car Allowance + Up to 25% Bonus + Benefits Package

Location:

Weybridge Surrey (Hybrid - 3 Days Per Week Onsite)
Must be Eligible to work in the UK.
 
About You
You'll be an exceptional Senior Business Analyst with extensive Business Analysis & Business Partnering experience, together with a proven track record of working with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing. You'll thrive in stakeholder-facing environments, leading workshops, gathering requirements & shaping future-state business processes.
Gravitas & credibility to engage with senior stakeholders. Ability to lead Business Analysis activities across several strategic transformation programmes, helping shape future-state business processes from discovery & blueprinting through to implementation.

Key Responsibilities
 
Lead Business Analysis activities across large-scale Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing transformation programmes.
Play a key role across several strategic transformation programmes, including IBP, MES & PLM initiatives.
Continuous improvement across Planning, Manufacturing & Quality Management capabilities.
Involved from the early stages of programmes, facilitating workshops, gathering requirements, defining future-state business processes and helping shape solution design alongside senior business stakeholders and Solution Architects.
Build strong business partnerships with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing & IT.
Facilitate workshops, gather business requirements and define future-state business processes.
Translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
Challenge existing processes & identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Work closely with Solution Architects & Technology teams throughout the solution lifecycle.
Support multiple strategic transformation programmes across Europe.
Drive the development of business cases, ensuring delivery of measurable business value.
Lead system implementation activities, including Testing, User Acceptance & Business Readiness.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams & third-party partners to deliver high-quality solutions.
Manage & prioritise business change through governance forums.
Provide leadership, coaching & mentoring to Business Analysts - through either direct line management & matrix leadership.  Experience

Required:

Significant Business Analysis experience within complex enterprise environments.
Business Analysis experience from discovery & blueprinting through to implementation.
Business Partnering with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing.
Stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation & requirements gathering.
End-to-end Supply Chain lifecycle processes - ability to advise & consult.
Planning, Manufacturing & Quality Management business processes.
SAP - experience working within SAP ECC6 or SAP S/4

HANA or SAP-enabled enterprise environments.
SAP IBP, S&OP, or comparable Planning & Supply Chain solutions - SAP APO, Kinaxis, Rapid Response, OMP, Blue Yonder.
Supporting SAP Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) would be highly advantageous.
Collaborative approach & forward-thinking.
Excellent analytical & problem-solving abilities.
Ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Experience with in FMCG, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Retail or other complex manufacturing environments is desirable.
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