SAP Logistics & Commercial Team Lead

SAP Logistics & Commercial Team Lead

About the AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. 

At AstraZeneca, we're proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity. 

About the team

Enterprise Capabilities & Solutions is a organization passionate to help our partners achieve their goals with exciting applications and solutions delivered using agile practices.

We live to serve our colleagues by providing support to anyone in AstraZeneca that is willing to innovate and explore new solutions.

We partner with our IT colleagues in the Business Facing Groups (BTGs) and across all of AZ IT to deliver to their needs.   We have teams in our Global Technology Centres in Chennai and Guadalajara, plus across Europe and America which provide a close working partnership where needed.

Our engineers are top talents that are always looking to learn new skills and apply them to the projects we develop and support.

About The role

Join us as an SAP Logistics and Commercial Team Lead at AstraZeneca, a world-leading Pharmaceutical company operating in over 100 countries. In this role, you will lead a team of functional consultants for a large SAP support and maintenance project, spanning several SAP landscapes across continents. With your broad functional knowledge in MM and/or SD and your experience leading teams, you will organize tasks and ensure their completion while fostering the development of your team.

The SAP Logistics & Commercial Team Lead will be accountable for:

• You will work closely with business technology groups, PMs, Architects and collaborate with Chennai counterparts to resolve any SAP issues reported by the business users and deliver all enhancements as required. You will manage workloads, participate in global capability meetings, review solutions designed by the team members, and proactively work with other IT/Business groups to identify and resolve recurring issues.
• Ensuring compliance within the team in regards to the AZ ways of working and framework.

Requirements

Essential

• Functional understanding for their respective work stream (MM and or SD) and experience on configuration.
• Solid organizational skills and good problem-solving abilities.
• Experience leading people and advising the work of others.
• Good understanding of business processes in the life sciences / pharmaceutical domain related to O2C and P2P scenarios.
• At least 5 years of proven experience as a functional consultant participating in incident and change management.
• Good understanding of standard integration with other systems for EDI/B2B (commercial) and logistics (3PL).
• Ability to translate requirements into high-level solutions into detailed functional specifications.
• Exposure to highly customized SAP environments and working on interfaces with Non-SAP systems.
• Good understanding of GXP and SOX requirements. Should have working experience in a validated environment.
• Experience of various Estimation Techniques needed
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Well versed in English and Spanish. Good spoken and written skills.
• Proactive approach to problem solving.
• Experience working in a globally distributed team and ability to manage conflicts

Desirable

• Additional Controlling submodules as Product Costing / Profitability Analysis
• Hands-on experience in other functional SAP core modules different than MM and or SD.
• Participation in full SAP implementations / Upgrades.
• SAP certification
• Abap (debugging)
• Specific country localizations (ie, Electronic Invoicing, Taxbra)
• PM / Lean Qualifications

📌Strong English communication skills required.

📌 Positions are open to Mexican Citizens and official residents of Mexico.

📍 Location: Guadalajara (hybrid - Expectation of working in the office 3 days a week)
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working give us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility.

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next!

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.

Where can I find out more?

Our Social Media:

Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/1603/

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AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer.

AstraZeneca will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. AstraZeneca only employs individuals with the right to work in the country/ies where the role is advertised.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.