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Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Product Analyst - SAP WM & Logistics

Enterprise ApplicationsPosted on Nov 5
Full-timeHyderabad, Telangana, India

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline is required.
  • Relevant certification in SAP, Warehouse Management, Logistics, or business analysis is preferred.
  • Experience supporting Warehouse Management and Logistics business processes is required.
  • Experience with enterprise Warehouse Management and Logistics solutions is required; experience with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP WM, SAP EWM, or comparable platforms is preferred.
  • Experience gathering requirements and preparing functional and process documentation is required.
  • Experience supporting testing, deployment, cutover, hypercare, and change-management activities is required.
  • Experience working with business stakeholders, technical teams, and delivery partners is required.
  • Experience supporting regional or global initiatives is preferred.
  • At least 8 years of experience with core SAP Warehouse Management and Extended Warehouse Management knowledge is required.
  • Two end-to-end SAP Warehouse Management or Extended Warehouse Management implementation or rollout experiences, with strong business-process and configuration knowledge, are required.
  • Knowledge of defining and mapping warehouse numbers, storage types, storage sections, picking areas, and storage bins is required.
  • Knowledge of configuring material masters, storage-bin structures, hazard ratings, and capacity checks is required.
  • Knowledge of configuring internal routing, physical-inventory procedures, replenishment strategies, slotting and rearrangement, and batch management is required.
  • Advanced configuration knowledge of put-away and picking strategies, including FIFO, LIFO, fixed-bin, and large- or small-quantity strategies, is required.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand operational needs, pain points, and improvement opportunities.
  • Gather, analyze, document, validate, and manage business requirements.
  • Translate business needs into functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and solution requirements.
  • Support prioritization and refinement of enhancements, incidents, technical debt, and product-backlog items.
  • Conduct impact assessments and contribute to business cases for new initiatives.
  • Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions to drive clear decisions and solution alignment.
  • Convert user feedback and operational insights into product enhancements, backlog items, and continuous-improvement opportunities.
  • Plan and support user workshops, demonstrations, feedback sessions, training, and adoption activities.
  • Build relationships with warehouse, logistics, distribution, and business users to understand operational priorities and adoption barriers.
  • Provide business-process and product expertise across Warehouse Management, Logistics Execution, Inventory, Distribution, and connected Supply Chain capabilities, independent of any single technology platform.
  • Support inbound, outbound, inventory, shipping, receiving, and warehouse-execution processes.
  • Support process harmonization and adoption of enterprise and global standards where applicable.
  • Identify opportunities for simplification, automation, control improvement, and improved user experience.
  • Support business-process design aligned with enterprise, regional, and cluster operating requirements.
  • Act as the functional subject-matter expert for assigned warehouse-management-system and Logistics capabilities.
  • Support the AMEA Digital Technology Center of Excellence in driving solution consistency, governance, and functional best practices.
  • Contribute to process standardization and template alignment across clusters and regional initiatives.
  • Participate in solution reviews, design validation, and governance activities.
  • Promote reusable solutions and help reduce unnecessary regional customization.
  • Develop and maintain functional standards, playbooks, process documentation, and knowledge assets.
  • Share lessons learned and reusable practices across projects, deployments, and sustainment teams.
  • Contribute to capability building and continuous improvement within the Center of Excellence.
  • Contribute to capability roadmaps by connecting business priorities, user needs, operational insights, technology opportunities, and enterprise direction.
  • Evaluate relevant artificial intelligence, analytics, Copilot, digital-assistant, and emerging-technology opportunities with business and technology teams, aligned with enterprise standards and responsible-use requirements.
  • Identify and assess automation opportunities across warehouse, logistics, inventory, and distribution processes, and support benefit definition and tracking.
  • Ensure documentation, knowledge transfer, and reusable Center of Excellence assets are completed and maintained across projects, deployments, releases, and sustainment.
  • Develop and maintain business-process flows, functional specifications, solution documentation, work instructions, training materials, test assets, support runbooks, and knowledge articles.
  • Participate in regional, global, and transformation initiatives.
  • Support discovery, fit-gap assessments, solution evaluations, and estimation activities.
  • Contribute to solution design, configuration validation, and deployment-readiness assessments.
  • Coordinate and support system-integration testing, user-acceptance testing, regression testing, and defect resolution.
  • Support cutover planning, data readiness, go-live, hypercare, stabilization, and transition to sustainment.
  • Work with Deployment Managers and business teams to support adoption and operational readiness.
  • Coordinate with delivery partners and project teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Support business readiness, stakeholder alignment, communication, training, and adoption planning through deployment and stabilization.
  • Assess business, process, data, integration, control, and user impacts associated with regional, global, and transformation initiatives.
  • Support business integration and process harmonization across clusters, regions, enterprise platforms, third-party logistics providers, and connected Supply Chain capabilities.
  • Support Level 2 and Level 3 functional issue resolution within the agreed support model.
  • Analyze recurring incidents and problems to identify root causes and long-term corrective actions.
  • Support release planning, change assessment, and change-management activities.
  • Monitor solution health and identify opportunities to improve performance, control, reliability, and user experience.
  • Drive continuous-improvement and automation opportunities using operational and business insights.
  • Ensure effective transition of project deliverables into steady-state support with clear documentation and ownership.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Solution Architects, BRMs, Deployment Managers, Center of Excellence colleagues, business teams, and delivery partners.
  • Support integration activities involving warehouse and logistics processes.
  • Work with adjacent capabilities including Materials Management, Sales and Distribution, Production Planning, Quality Management, and Transportation solutions.
  • Participate in cross-functional, regional, global, and integration initiatives as required.
  • Ensure process and solution decisions remain aligned across integrated Supply Chain capabilities.

Desired Qualifications

  • Relevant SAP, Warehouse Management, Logistics, or business-analysis certification.
  • Experience with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP WM, SAP EWM, or comparable enterprise platforms.
  • Experience supporting regional or global initiatives.

About the Company

Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Mars makes confectionery, food, and petcare products and also operates pet health services through networks like Banfield, VCA, BluePearl, and Royal Canin. Its products are marketed under familiar brands such as M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Skittles, Dove, Orbit, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Whiskas, and Cocoavia, sold globally to consumers and pet owners. The company differs from competitors by combining a broad, diversified portfolio with a global, family-owned structure guided by the Mars Principles (Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, Freedom), which drives its operations and partnerships. Mars aims to help communities prosper and to grow its business while improving social and environmental outcomes, using its scale to support responsible practices across the world.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$27B
Headquarters
McLean, VA
Founded
1911

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