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The Position
Job Description
As a Senior ERP Business Analyst, you will independently manage end-to-end business analysis workstreams within the SAP Sales and Distribution (SD / Market Plan to Cash) functional area. You will tackle complex business problems with emerging ambiguity, demonstrating a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical business domain, related enterprise technologies, and cross-module interdependencies. In this role, you will apply advanced BA tools and techniques to translate business requirements into strategic implementation plans and solution designs. You will act as a trusted advisor to cross-functional teams, shape stakeholder perspectives, and drive the design, validation, and delivery of scalable SAP solutions. Additionally, you will mentor junior analysts and actively contribute to the ERP Community of Practice (CoP).
Description of the Area
This role supports the Marketing Plan to Cash (MP2C) value stream and is aligned with the ASPIRE roadmap, a multi-year global initiative aiming to define and develop functional ERP roadmaps that simplify, standardize, and automate core business processes leveraging SAP industry best practices. The team focuses on delivering high-impact Order-to-Cash offerings and integrating SAP SD seamlessly across global enterprise platforms.
Job Responsibilities
Scope / (Content Leadership): Independently manage end-to-end business analysis workstreams for the SAP SD (Market Plan to Cash) domain without guidance. Adapt and adhere to Roche standard frameworks, mentor junior and intermediate BAs, and drive/lead practices in end-to-end process design and optimization. Work in close partnership with business stakeholders to define, design, build, test, and deploy functional ERP solutions based on SAP ECC and S/4 HANA best practices.
Accountability / Problem Solving: Perform root cause analysis on complex business issues and lead Key Design Decisions. Accountable for creating comprehensive documentation (functional and technical specifications, test plans) and configuring, building, testing, and deploying SAP SD solutions alongside implementation partners, as well as coordinating production changes and providing L3 support for live operational systems.
Stakeholder Management: Build strong, trusted partnerships across business and IT teams. Facilitate design workshops, resolve conflicts, manage expectations, and coordinate changes across cross-functional departments in the Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and gain endorsement across global IT and business teams.
Impact / Strategy: Translate business requirements into strategic implementation plans and global solution roadmaps that maximize business value and minimize solution duplication. Evaluate solution alternatives and ensure continuous product increments aligned with long-term domain goals.
Complexity / (Product Size): Manage requirements and system interdependencies across complex multi-solution enterprise landscapes. Oversee and ensure integrations between SAP SD and adjacent applications, including SFDC, SAP Hybris, 3PL/4PL integration solutions.
Business / Technical Ability: Apply deep domain and technical expertise in SAP SD customizing, configuration, and interface monitoring (iDoc, XML, Web Services, RFC, CIF). Ensure strict adherence to Roche IT standards, including security, privacy, IT Quality, GxP compliance, and Computer System Validation (CSV) requirements.
Qualifications
Education / Experience
Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent…