IT Business Analyst/SAP Configurator SD/TM

Ball Horticultural Company - West Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

West Chicago, IL

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

About the position

The IT Business Analyst/SAP Configurator at Ball Horticultural Company is responsible for the design, configuration, and maintenance of business systems utilizing SAP's sales, production, transportation, supply chain, and FICO modules. This role involves collaborating with business and IT management teams to ensure efficient business procedures and to identify innovative technical solutions that enhance customer, employee, and supplier experiences while driving sales and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Propose innovative IT solutions to address business needs by understanding business processes and requirements and applying the best of class software, hardware and/or services.
• Develop IT solutions by writing functional specifications and coordinating the development with IT staff (programmers, configurators, network, infrastructure, management, etc.).
• Enhance current SAP processes by configuring SAP S/4 SD and TM to meet business requirements.
• Assure successful implementation and adoption of IT solutions by the business by coordinating testing, documentation, training, change management and communication with the business.
• Timely support of daily business issues by communicating with the business, providing assessments, proposing and prioritizing solutions.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in design, implementation and support of business systems including Business analysis, process design and writing of functional specifications.
• SAP configuration of Sales & Distribution including strong understanding of SAP sales order management, delivery, billing, customer master and integration with MM and FI.
• SAP configuration of Basic Transportation Management including freight units, freight orders, and freight settlement.
• Business-specific customizations such as customer portal, supplier portal, pricing tools and their interactions with standard SAP.
• Full systems life-cycle implementations using development methodologies and controls (i.e. Agile or ITIL).
• BS in Computer Science, Business, Agriculture, or equivalent work experience.
• Development & reporting tools SAP S/4 HANA tables, CDS Views, Analysis for Office & ALV.
• Availability for monthly maintenance windows, periodic QA refreshes, and project go-lives that are outside normal business hours.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of selling, importing, and transporting perishable products with a short shelf life including greenhouse floral products, fresh produce, or cut flowers.
• Experience in a broker industry where products are drop-shipped from third party suppliers to customers.
• Experience working on projects using third party IT resources, either domestic or international.
• SAP configuration of materials management and/or production modules (SAP S/4 HANA, MM and/or PP).
• Experience with testing automation tools.

Benefits

• Profit sharing
• Paid holidays
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Employee assistance program