Senior SAP PP Functional Analyst

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Varsity Brands is currently seeking a Senior SAP PP Functional Analyst to join our growing team at our Farmers Branch, TX headquarters.

The Senior SAP PP Functional Analyst will be called upon to build relationships with functional users in order to gather and help refine requirements, perform analysis of requirements to determine the best solution for the user, create functional specifications and programming specifications, communicate specifications to programmers, design and create test scripts, support business owner acceptance testing, plan and coordinate go-live and post go-live activities. Additionally, the candidate will support end users and business owners by handling questions, requests, and troubleshooting potential problems. This position requires close partnering with all business functions and the IT organization.

The Senior SAP PP Functional Analyst will report to the Director of SAP Services and will support operations by ensuring the highest level of data integrity, governance, and service to internal customers.

Job Responsibilities

• Creates strategy and execution plans to achieve PP related requirements
• Support PP and other related PP Master data
• Assesses and determines tools, resources, and system requirements to execute all related functions
• Partners with functional leaders to gather requirements
• Create functional specifications and programming specifications
• Communicate specifications to programmers
• Design and create test scripts
• Support business owner acceptance testing
• Plan and coordinate go-live and post go-live activities
• Collaborates closely with business stakeholders of all levels in support of existing applications
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned

Qualifications

• Leadership: Ability to lead meetings with business owners and lead technical personnel across the IT organization
• Business Acumen: Superior analysis and problem-solving skills
• Customer Focus: Has a strong, outgoing personality and a passion for working with business owners; proven ability to build strong internal / external customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions; uses customer insights and best practices to drive transformation and lead the development of improvements
• Communication: Excellent communications, follow up, and presentation skills, both written and verbal, including confidence and presence to engage effectively with senior executives. Must be able to strategically and succinctly articulate messaging
• Collaboration: Able to work cross functionally throughout the organization and build strong partnerships to meet shared objectives
• Organization: Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple deliverables with competing priorities on tight deadlines; must have meticulous, focused attention to detail
• Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments; promotes a sense of urgency and establishes and enforces individual accountability
• Decision Quality: Able to make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward
• Strategic / Tactical Agility: Strong leader who can work with multiple stakeholders, develop, and execute information strategy while being able to manage day-to-day tactical activities to ensure commitments are delivered and processes are improved
• Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency and enthusiasm; proven performance demonstrating a tremendous amount of initiative in tough situations and is exceptional at recognizing and seizing opportunities; must be intellectually curious and willing to evaluate and quickly learn new technologies

Education, Certification and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Sciences, Information Technology, Supply Chain, or relevant experience
• Minimum of (5) five years of progressive work experience on the SAP platform; focused experience in the PP analyst role is preferred
• Knowledge of programming and/or debugging skills are preferred
• Intermediate / advanced Microsoft Office product experience (e.g., MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS SharePoint, MS Teams, and MS Outlook)

Travel

Travel is required, out-of-the-area and overnight travel may be expected.

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OUR BENEFITS

We are committed to putting you and your families first. For benefits eligible roles, we offer a variety of choices and costs as well as program enhancements that align with our responsibility to elevate the employee experience. Some of our offerings include:

• Comprehensive Health Care Benefits
• HSA Employer Contribution/ FSA Opportunities
• Wellbeing Program
• 401(k) plan with company matching
• Company paid Life, AD&D, and Short-Term Disability
• Generous My Time Off & Paid Holidays
• Employee Resource Groups
• St. Jude Partnership & Volunteer Opportunities
• Employee Perks including discounts on personal apparel and equipment!

Varsity Brands companies are equal opportunity employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.