SAP Manager - Houston, United States - Cooper Machinery Services

Cooper Machinery Services

Verified Company

Houston, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Job Title:
SAP Manager

FLSA Status:
Exempt

Group:
Regular-Full Time

Department:

IT

Location:
Houston, TX

About Cooper Machinery Services:

Cooper Machinery Services provides natural gas compression equipment and services to customers globally in the Oil & Gas, Power, Transportation, and Marine sectors.

With a proud heritage dating back to 1833, Cooper Machinery Services is the OEM for legendary product lines including Cooper-Bessemer, Ajax, Superior, Gemini, TSI, CSI, Enterprise, and Joy.

Headquartered in Houston, TX, but with commercial and services hubs around the world, Cooper Machinery Services provides world-class services to more than 22,000 units in its installed base.

Our strength is our people. Each employee plays an integral role in our success and growth.

With a commitment to our vision that strong relationships drive strong results and better business, our people make Cooper Machinery Services legendary.

Job Overview:

The SAP Manager at Cooper Machinery Services is responsible for overseeing the integration, optimization, and strategic deployment of SAP solutions across all relevant modules (SD, MM, PP, FI).

This role involves leading the design, development, and delivery of comprehensive SAP solutions, ensuring they align with business goals and deliver significant value.

This role involves managing workload, coordinating support efforts with other teams, monitoring project progress, and ensuring the successful execution of special projects assigned by the Executive Team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Solution Design and Delivery:
Lead the design and architecture of SAP solutions, ensuring they meet business requirements and strategic objectives.
Oversee or be responsible for the design, development, and delivery of offerings across multiple areas of expertise.
Develop and present innovative implementation strategies, considering clients' budget, cash flow, and timetovalue.
Collaboration and Stakeholder Management:
Develop and maintain strong relationships with key vendors, SAP partners, and other external stakeholders.
Collaborate with
IT leadership to ensure SAP solutions align with overall technology and business strategies.
Facilitate technologyagnostic business capability/process workshops.
Project Leadership and Execution:
Lead the delivery of a solution business blueprint that satisfies business requirements and enables timely and profitable delivery on projects.
Demonstrate the ability to lead across the full lifecycle of large transformation projects, with detailed understanding of all functions and phases required to deliver the program outcomes.
Coordinate and maintain change control and testing processes to ensure system integrity and performance.
Mentorship and

Knowledge Sharing:

Actively participate as a mentor/SME/resource for the internal team and provide input into deliverables as appropriate.
Contribute learnings and content from delivery programs to enrich the organization's body of knowledge for the domain or industry.
Functional and Technical Support:
Provide functional support, prepare unit test plans, test scripts, create test data, test and deploy quality work products, and perform golive and postproduction support.
Handle Master Data and Transactional Data Integration from a nonSAP system to SAP.
Drive system, project, or enhancement adoption.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
Minimum of 5 years' SAP Functional Analysis or solution architect experience in ECC 6.0 or later.
Extensive prior experience as an OTC team lead or architect.
Experience with SAP Security and User Management.
Proven analytical, critical reasoning, and problemsolving skills.
Must be resultsoriented with a cando attitude demonstrating adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
Excellent interpersonal skills, including effective written and oral communications.
Strong knowledge of SAP Best Practices.

Competencies:

Technical Expertise: Deep knowledge of SAP modules (SD, MM, PP, FI) and SAP ECC 6.0 or later.
Analytical Skills: Strong problemsolving and critical reasoning abilities.
Leadership: Proven ability to lead large projects.
Collaboration: Effective collaboration with stakeholders, internal customers and partners.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Project Management: Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects, with strong planning and prioritization skills.
Strategic Thinking: Align SAP solutions with business strategies and innovate implementation methods.
Adaptability: Flexible and resourceful in changing situations.
Knowledge Sharing: Mentor team members and contribute to organizational knowledge.

Cooper Machinery Services is an equal opportunity employer and gives all qualified applicants consideration of employment without reg