Platform Manager SAP Americas

R10065794 Platform Manager SAP Americas (Open)

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Platform Manager SAP Americas

Location: Remote

Job Description Summary: The Platform manager is responsible for overseeing the design, development, and continuous improvement of technology platforms within Enterprise Applications that supports multiple SAP products within the product line. This role ensures the platform’s scalability and alignment with business and technical needs.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

• Define and implement the strategic vision and technology choices for the platform, aligning with the product line’s goals

• Define, implement and follow the technical roadmap of the platform,  obsolescence management  plans and implementation of any changes/updates to meet current and future business requirements

• Responsible for the application of a global technology set in terms of best practices, architectures, tools, processes, documentation, to be applied across the platform and in accordance to the guidelines and organizational policies of Air Liquide

• Ensure the quality of the software produced by the team 

• Participate in the strategic capacity planning and resource management of the team, in collaboration with Product Line Directors and Product Managers to support requests of resources for the product teams

• Assist with the planning of the high-level release schedule across teams & secure effective interdependency management

• Collect & consolidate relevant KPIs/insights to report on value delivered at product line level

• Assist with the oversight of SAP related roll-out activities in close collaboration with GDS/DDS teams

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Are you a MATCH?

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science and/or Business Administration or Equivalent

Required Length & Type of Experience:

• 10+ years of experience implementing SAP products, including experience with S/4 HANA 

• 5 years of hands-on experience in configuring SAP within a specific domain

• 5 years of business and functional requirements analysis experience

• Experience with troubleshooting and debugging complex integrated applications.

• At least 5 SAP full life cycle implementation projects serving in a hands-on and lead capacity

• Extensive experience with medium to large SAP initiatives

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: 

• Experience using verbal and written communication skills effectively, including the ability to work across teams, and the ability to interact with business and technical stakeholders while implementing SAP, as well as other complex projects

• Deep strategic planning capabilities combined with a strategic thinking & value-driven mindset (roadmap creation, product vision articulation, value monitoring…)

• Experience in people management, preferably within a multiple-teams structure as well as Functional and/or Technical Lead experience

• Strong communication & stakeholders management skills

• Strong Business Process Knowledge

• Good industry knowledge and insights into key challenges for the domain/family

• Experience in Product Management

• Experience in managing roll-out plan of IT projects/programs/products

• Ability to work with large, distributed teams onshore and offshore with diverse competencies, skills, and abilities

• Ability to work in a fast-paced/high-pressure culture

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees. 

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children,  including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates. 

Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees’ dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

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Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Information
 

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. 

Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com.

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