Job title: SAP Release Management

• Location Hyderabad
• Job type: Fulltime

About the job

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one overarching mission - to work passionately, challenging ourselves and our industry every day, to build a healthier future by helping people, help themselves, bringing “Health in Your Hands”.

Our teams are building trusted & loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide, enabling better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. To fulfill this mission, we are embarking our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees in this journey because this is what will make us become the “Best Fast-Moving Consumer Healthcare (FMCH) Company In & For the World”.

We strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view.

To achieve this, we need strong talent who will help us shape the future of our Consumer Healthcare business and challenge our industry. At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we aspire to create a work environment where people can thrive, grow, and be at their best every day. Our priority is working with integrity to improve the health and well-being of people and communities where we operate, working towards making a positive impact in the world.

What you’ll be doing:

This role sits within the SAP Center of Excellence team at Consumer Healthcare (CHC) Digital. We are a dynamic team passionate about accompanying Sanofi CHC through its most exciting and challenging journey as it seeks to become a fully carved in P&L within Sanofi.

We are a team composed of professionals that come from different backgrounds, both internal and external to Sanofi. We believe in our team’s mission, accountability, a team spirit supportive of each other and a profound respect for diversity.

We are seeking to construct a best-in-class digital organization, where the ERP will be a solid and adaptive backbone of our systems, and our supporting functions applications are innovation technology solutions that give our business the (digital) wings to fly every day!

SAP Release Management - Main responsibilities:

• Manage and deliver ERP (SAP S4 HANA) releases.
• Own ERP release methodology, target continuous improvement of Release management ways of working from ideation to adoption, end of end without disruptions in the operation, and in cooperation with Technical Basis and SOLMAN Expert and other stakeholders.
• Ensure the sustain, evolution and governance of Release supporting toolset such as Solution Manager, JIRA, Confluence with strong emphasis in innovation and adoption of emerging technologies.
• Align, build, and maintain the SAP release calendar keeping all consolidated planning up to date.
• Establish and maintain the right level of governance, leading the Global Release meeting, conducting quality gates, milestone reviews and Business Go/No-Go reviews. Proactively report any releases risks and come with necessary mitigation plans.
• Provide guidance to the project teams to ensure smooth execution of release to production.
• Communicate with stakeholders to identify any issues or risks that may affect the release schedule or quality of the SAP platform.
• Ensure the release notes are always setup and communicated with digital and business stakeholders as a part of release management process.
• Perform post-release analysis to identify any issues that occurred during the release process and develop plans to prevent similar problems in future releases.
• Organize recurrent alignment with major rollouts and live country projects (sharing changes to methodology, outages, etc..).
• Keep alignment with Quality and Compliance team and make sure the information are well distributed to all Projects.

Experience:

• 8+ years of overall experience.

• Minimum 4+ years work experience as SAP Release expert in complex landscape, preferably in a FMCG and/or FMCH context.
• Solid experience in SAP release management, with a deep understanding of SAP S4HANA architecture and its modules, integrated systems and with technical knowledge to handle technical dependencies and conflicts.
• Good understanding of S4HANA upgrade process and supporting toolset such SAP Readiness Check with at least one contribution to the delivery of a Major release with upgraded systems in scope.
• Contributed in the design and adoption of retrofit, freeze and downtime strategies.
• Hands on in related supporting tools such Jira, Solution Manager, Confluence, Service-now to support application lifecycle activities.
• Experience in Focused Build or SAP Cloud ALM is a plus.
• Familiar with SAP activate methodology is a plus.
• Solid understanding of project management methodologies, software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies and agile practices.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
  • At ease with Microsoft Office tools, and in general with IS tools.
  • Experience with multi-geography, multi-tier service design and management.
  • Conceptual and analytical thinking – ability to extract, analyse, and document complex business and technical requirements or strategies.

Soft skills:

• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated conflict resolution & problem-solving skills in a global environment
• Strong appetite to learn and discover, entrepreneur mindset
• Adaptable and open to change
• Team player, service-oriented
• Analytical and synthetic, able to formalize solutions, good writing skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• With leadership attitude, autonomy and results driven
• Role model our 4 values: teamwork, integrity, respect, courage

Education: Bachelor’s Degree (B.A.) or equivalent in Information Technology or Engineering

Languages: Fluent spoken and written English

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!