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**Your role**

The Application Consultant for the SAP EHS area acts as end-to-end responsible for Environment, Health, and Safety Management topics to provide state of the art solutions and services. This includes the implementation of appropriate systems enhancements following established processes to meet customer requirements. The Application Consultant will interact with our Business facing organization to plan, prepare, execute and monitor projects as well as individual Change Requests. This will be done by leveraging technical skills provided by external partners.

In this role we require an excellent knowledge of SAP EHS and the adjacent modules combined with a good understanding of associated P2P (Procure to Pay) and MDG-M processes integrated with ERP systems. Thus he/she should be in the position to consult business partners to find suitable and sustainable solutions meeting customer demands.

Service Performance Monitoring of the Application Managed Services provided by our strategic partners belongs to the role to meet the agreed KPIs. This includes periodic reviews and the use of defined processes to hand over new services.

At Merck Environment, Health, and Safety Management is connected to all relevant ERP systems to centrally create, change, and distribute, or to consolidate master data across the complete enterprise system landscape. The integration of all those components and the participation in architecture design decisions is also part of this position.

**Responsibilities (optional)**

Operational Vendor Management & Reporting
- Manage vendor service performance against below processes
- Establish the required improvements plan as per identified gaps and/or defined requirements Secure timely issuance of periodic performance report and annual service reviews

Incident Management
- Lead the resolution of critical or complex incidents including related crisis management when appropriate Coordinate communication and coordination with the relevant stakeholders (Infrastructure, GIAM team, business key users, etc)

Problem Management
- Lead master plan and priorities toward ticket elimination and automation Proactively suggest possible solutions and propose an action plan for improvement to management

Change and Release Management
- Secure Change Management processes in line with relevant SOPs

**Who you are**:
**Education/Professional Experience**
- Bachelor/Master degree or equivalent in Computer Sciences and/or Business Administration

**Languages**
- English mandatory (written and spoken) An additional language (German) is an asset

**Skills & Competencies**
- Good interpersonal and organizational skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to make decisions and act autonomously
- Expert knowledge regarding the use of functionality within SAP EHS
- Expert knowledge regarding the use of functionality within SAP MM-IM and MDG-M
- Good knowledge in SAP Regulatory Content Implementation & Update (Serc)
- Good knowledge in Product Safety, Specification Management
- Good knowledge in WWI Layouting, Report Shipping
- Good knowledge in Dangerous Goods Management
- Good knowledge in Substance Volume Tracking Basic knowledge in GLM (Global Label Management) or other Label Systems

**IT Process roles (optional)**
- Operational Vendor Management & Reporting
- Incident Management
- Problem Management
- Change and Release Management
- Project Delivery and Service Introduction
- Application Life Cycle Management
- Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing
- Information Security - Patch Management, Information classification
- Operational Compliance - DP, GxP (user management), licenses management, training plan and execution, FSA - error management of iDocs, BI session, transaction error

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