Your Role:
As a member of the Miltenyi Biotec IT Team, this pivotal role will oversee both functional and technical support teams dedicated to maintaining and enhancing our SAP systems. The SAP Manager will play a crucial part in aligning our North American operations with global SAP standards and ensuring seamless communication between regional teams and our headquarters in Germany. This position offers a unique opportunity to drive Miltenyi Biotec's SAP capabilities forward, contributing directly to our company's growth and success.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of SAP professionals on complex business issues from strategy to execution involving analytical, building/customizing, testing, and deploying tasks, while fostering a collaborative and supportive team environment that encourages professional growth and development.
- Develop and leverage internal relationships to enable collaborative problem solving and issue resolution with other departments, including IT, finance, operations, senior management, and HQ. Understand business needs and translate them into SAP requirements.
- Align SAP team goals and processes in North America with those in Germany, ensuring consistency and adherence to global standards, while continuing to maintain effective communication and presentations with the SAP team in Germany.
- Initiate, design, and drive business requirements from concept to actionable execution plans to achieve SAP organizational goals.
- Analyze and document requirements in detail, and design and document the best fit system or modifying existing systems.
- Coordinate testing for applications and interface changes before setting up users for testing and will train users on software quality assurance processes, collecting and reviewing test results.
- Provide guidance and coaching to team members to optimize performance and achieve departmental goals.
- Contribute to long-term SAP strategy and planning to support the company’s growth and evolving needs.
Requirements:
- B.S. in Business Administration, Computer Science or a related field; 5+ years of leadership experience in Informational Technology.
- 7+ years of relevant consulting or operations experience in SAP.
- Proven experience managing SAP projects and driving changes on processes.
- Experience with other Tier 1 ERP (SAP highly preferred), including integration of ERP into other systems, EDI, portals.
- Significant experience within SAP Modules: SAP Sales and Distribution (SD), and/or SAP Material Management (MM) and/or PP (Production Planning) modules and/or SAP Warehouse Management System (WMS) and/or SAP Project System (PS), and/or SAP Finance (FI).
- Demonstrated experience training users and driving change adoption across diverse user communities, including technicians, engineers, scientists, and management.
- Proficiency in independently learning and mastering information technology systems such as ERP and other systems using documentation and testing.
- Travel Requirements: Up to 10%.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities:
- Proven ability to engage effectively with senior management, with a keen understanding of executive communication dynamics.
- Proficiency in MS Office applications.
- Preferably holds a PMP or Similar certification or possesses relevant experience in ERP project management.
- Experience deploying changes in high compliance environments such as medical, pharmaceutical, biotech, or food industries.
- Experience with SAP full deployments or M&A integration into SAP environments is highly regarded.
- Strong leadership and team management capabilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information effectively to various stakeholders.
Physical and Mental Demands:
- Ability to organize/coordinate
- Comprehend and follow instructions
- Direct, control and plan solve
- Problem Solve
- Analyze/Interpret data and information
- Make decisions using sound judgment
- Perform with frequent interruptions
- Supervise/Manage others
- Use keyboard/computer/phone
- Maintain stationary position
- Position self to move
- Move/Traverse
Work Environment:
- Regular and predictable attendance
The hiring range for this position is expected to fall between $147,581-$173,565/year, reflecting the range candidates can reasonably expect to be considered for at time of offer, based on factors such as experience, internal equity, and qualifications.
The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of considerations, including but not limited to internal equity, experience, education, specialization, skills, abilities, and training. The above range represents the Company’s good faith and reasonable estimate of possible compensation at the time of posting.Miltenyi Biotec North America is an EO Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.
Miltenyi Biotec, Inc. participates in E-Verify.
The Company will provide reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company, in accordance with applicable law.
Are you ready to start revolutionizing biomedical research? When you join Miltenyi Biotec, you join a family that is passionate about making a real impact – one breakthrough at a time. For over 30 years, we have played a pivotal role in the design, development, manufacture, and integration of products for sample preparation, cell separation, cell analysis, imaging, and cell culture needs. These developments have led to cutting-edge cell and gene therapies – transformative methods that mobilize the body’s own cells and genetic blueprint to tackle diseases such as cancer and autoimmune conditions. Today, our more than 18,000 solutions play a vital role in paving the way for the medicine of tomorrow.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field
- 5+ years of leadership experience in Information Technology
- 7+ years of relevant consulting or operations experience in SAP
- Experience managing SAP projects and driving process changes
- Experience with SAP or another Tier 1 ERP, including ERP integrations, EDI, and portals
- Significant experience with SAP SD, MM, PP, WMS, PS, and/or FI modules
- Experience training users and driving change adoption across diverse user communities
- Ability to independently learn and master ERP and other information technology systems through documentation and testing
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
- PMP or similar certification, or relevant ERP project management experience
- Experience deploying changes in high-compliance medical, pharmaceutical, biotech, or food-industry environments
- Experience with SAP full deployments or M&A integrations into SAP environments
- Strong leadership, team management, communication, executive engagement, and problem-solving skills
What We Do
For over 30 years, Miltenyi Biotec has been a major provider of products and services that drive biomedical research and boost cell and gene therapy. More than 3,500 employees in 28 countries combine excellence in research with innovative products to create cutting-edge solutions that make cancer and other disease history. Our expertise spans research areas including immunology, stem cell biology, neuroscience, and cancer, and clinical research areas like hematology, graft engineering, and apheresis. At Miltenyi Biotec, scientists, engineers, software developers and many other professionals work together to improve human health by providing smarter cellular technology solutions to researchers and clinicians worldwide.
