Functional Configuration Lead - SAP Materials Management
Lake Zurich, IL

Job Description

Position Summary

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Essential brands. Innovative products. Smart investment. Winning team. This is what you will find at ACCO Brands. We are passionate about building a culture that is committed to the success of our employees. If you are looking for an organization that offers rewarding opportunities and is dedicated to team orientation, learning and development, and flourishes with success, we invite you to be a part of building our company for the future.

ACCO Brands is seeking a talented individual to join the Information Technology team as a Functional Configuration Lead-SAP Materials Management (MM) at the Lake Zurich, IL headquarters.

This functional lead will be responsible for applying business and technical expertise to support, design and implement existing or new or revised business functionality into our SAP systems and related third party systems. This role will lead and support projects across multiple business functions specializing in Materials Management and also be accountable for change requests, and production support within the scope of the functional area of the job. The applicant should have ability to transform and to support advanced business functions and business requirements into design, build and implement systems / technical solutions for the specified functional area. This person will be the key resource to drive continuous improvement and Best Practices on SAP modules in support of the company vision and roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

* Integrates SAP functional development and support capabilities within the North American support framework.
* Interacts with the non-information technology related business areas to identify requirements and requests help prioritize, scope, implement and support solutions.
* Sets expectations, manage expectations, challenge requirements and help establish priorities.
* Documents, analyzes and provides solutions based on business requests for additional features, functionality, integrations, etc.
* Investigates best practices, and participates in the selection & implementation of technology solutions.
* Designs, builds, implements and supports applications and activities related to the specified functional area, including configuring SAP and integrated third party applications.
* Plans and executes all activities of implementation and support of applications by understanding of project implementation / support methodologies and tools based on ACCO standards.
* Implements, executes and reviews appropriate testing & quality assurance activities.
* Provides functional and technical support for mission-critical applications for the specified functional areas.
* Develops and maintains user documentation for delivered solutions in order to facilitate ongoing production support activities and user training.
* Drives continuous process improvement with use of technology solutions by demonstrating value-add propositions and effective communication of IT value to the business.
* Interacts with management to assess needs, assign priorities, and learn new technologies and techniques as appropriate.

Position Qualifications

* Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent technical work experience is required
* Minimum 8 years in a dynamic business environment performing system and / or business analysis and design
* Minimum of 5 years of experience with SAP configuration and support in the relevant functional area and/or experience with at least 3 full SAP system implementations
* Expertise in configuration of procurement/purchasing processes such as purchase requisition, purchase order process, good receipts, and invoice verification/validation and vendor payments.
* Expertise with PP/MM Integration touchpoints such as MRP groups, subcontracting, and vendor consignment, planned order/purchase requisition or purchase requisition to Purchase Order conversion
* Experience in P2P Processes, Pricing procedures (Condition types, tables, Access sequences), RFQ's, Contracts, Scheduling Agreements and maintaining the schedules, Quotations
* Configuration experience on the core concepts of MM like the "Automatic Account Determinations" and also creating customized Movement types and linking them to the G/L Accounts
* Solid understanding of SAP "Best Practices" regarding SAP MM and SAP industry templates
* Moderate to Extensive experience in integration of other functional areas such as FICO, SD, PP, SCM and other SAP modules with SAP MM
* Operational knowledge of various development technologies and methodologies beyond SAP
* Ability to travel up to 10% domestically

About Us

You know our brands. You love our brands. You just may not know they are ours.

If you have touched a Five Star® notebook, a Swingline® stapler, a Quartet® dry erase board, or a Kensington® computer mouse, you have touched part of ACCO Brands Corporation. With annual revenues of nearly $2 Billion, ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO) designs, markets, manufactures and sells branded academic, consumer and business products globally. The power of our brands, our unmatched global customer reach, and our strategic market strengths put us in a position to achieve global leadership and growth. We're proud of our long history of industry leadership and innovation and are focused on delivering exceptional value to our customers by providing unique, cutting-edge, branded products.

Apply and build your future with ACCO Brands.

More information about ACCO Brands, the Home of Great Brands Built by Great People, can be found at www.accobrands.com.

Equal Opportunity EmployerACCO Brands is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. The Company provides equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.