Job Description

Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands.
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
Purpose & Scope:
SAP PTP Sr Analyst will be part of the Enterprise Applications Team contributing to Development and support of SAP Procure to Pay (PTP-AFS), MM (Material Management) And ITD (Inventory to Deliver) Processes.
Based in Bangalore, India, this Sr Analyst role will be working in partnership with SAP Global Technology group leveraging hands on SAP Configuration and functional skills to manage on-going business needs.
This role is responsible for Configuration, Support, Unit testing and documentation of all (RICEFW) FSD and will be involved in deployments/rollouts and day-to-day continuous improvements and problem management for critical areas in SAP PTP/MM system support for maintainability, performance & scalability.
As a Ralph Lauren Sr Analyst, you will be a part of a growing Enterprise applications community that is Global in scope and operates across all of Ralph Lauren's regions & application disciplines.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Understand Business Requirements and create functional specifications documents for optimal solution and development estimates.

• Liaise with ABAP developers, BI, Integration and other technical teams to support data conversions & interfaces, reports, enhancements and forms development, and help in debugging/troubleshooting of day to day production issues.

• Creation of unit test plans & technical unit testing.

• Perform impact analysis and performance tuning on SAP development objects, identify opportunities for continuous improvement

• Participates in system & integration testing and production go live activities

• Contribute towards SAP development best practices for CoE to optimize SAP Ecosystem.

• Manage design conflicts across projects

• Work with SAP Support to identify and implement SAP Notes, bug fixes etc.

• Strong work experience on 3rd party interfaces (IDOC)

• Having Knowledge on the Retail business.

• Having work experience on S4 Hana (with Fashion) will be added advantage.

• Supports SAP application solution development

Experience, Skills & Knowledge
Professional Skills:

• Strong SAP PTP (AFS) / MM Functional skills.

• Hands on functional configuration is a Must.

• Able to debug code, excellent collaborative skills with development teams.

• Strong organizational skills and detail-oriented with ability to handle multiple priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Must have proven ability to support multiple projects on an aggressive timeline.

• Knowledge of Procure to Pay with preference of AFS experience.

• Knowledge of Procurement Planning/MRP processes is a plus.

• Must have xe2x80x9ccan doxe2x80x9d attitude and be able to work independently.

• Strong time management skills.

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize activities on assigned tasks.

• Ability and willingness to learn.

• S4 Hana will be added advantage.

Certifications:

• SAP related Certifications are a Plus.

Experience:

• Minimum 7 years of hands-on SAP Configuration and implementation work experience

• Minimum Two SAP Implementation or rollout experience.

What you bring (Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree and Minimum Seven or more years of SAP PTP / MM work experience with S4 Hana.

• Extensive experience in SAP PTP and MM Space (Sound knowledge of configuration, IDOCs, SAP -Purchase requisitions, PO, STO, Dropship, Third party, Contract manufacturing and Vendor manged inventory Functionality, familiarity with EDI Order processing, ASN, Billing and Material Ledger processes.

• Experience working in SAP AFS ECC systems with integration to other systems (Logility, PKMS,3PL, Ariba, etc)

• Experience in working across multi system / technology and integration scenarios with SAP systems

• Previous large transformation SAP program experience desired, AFS & strong functional and technical knowledge of SAP.

• Must have the ability to work in a global delivery model

• Demonstrates ability to communicate to partner with multiple IT domains

• Demonstrates ability to support multiple projects and tasks on an aggressive timeline

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