Principal Solutions Architect I

**Job Description**:
**Position Title**
- Principal Solutions Architect - SAP Platform,

**Function/Group**

Digital and Technology

**Location**

Mumbai

**Shift Timing**

Regular

**Role Reports to**

D&T Head - Core Platforms

**Remote/Hybrid/in-Office**

Hybrid

**ABOUT GENERAL MILLS**

**We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. **With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

**JOB OVERVIEW**

**Function Overview**

The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the provided Link

**Purpose of the role**

This role performs work that is highly complex, varied in nature, and spans multiple functional areas.

It also seeks to ensure optimum utilization of existing core platforms and their integration while considering and / or facilitating the justified deployment of new technologies in response to business requirements.

As a Principal Solution Architect, you will be part of our SAP Platform & Strategic Initiatives team. In this role you are responsible for guiding strategic thought leadership across our SAP ecosystem, including functional & technical design & architecture, coaching & mentoring broader D&T talent, and successful delivery of strategic initiatives

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- Lead or advise on Supply Chain (Plan, Source, Make, Customer and Deliver Pillars) solutions roadmap and projects.
- Understand supply chain business processes and requirements related to SAP solutions by engaging through D&T with business partners and SAP practitioners at enterprise level.
- Conduct comparative research and recommend strategies with regards to SAP technologies to propose and implement solutions for business needs.
- Assist in hiring SAP related resources, vendor selection, product selection, strategy related to SAP solutions
- Perform discovery projects by engaging with business units and SAP team members to find the best possible solutions for GMI.
- Lead, consult or participate in end-to-end implementations while also engaging as a functional solution architect in other parallel SAP projects
- Craft adaptable, comprehensive, and feasible solutions by creating necessary blueprint documents for functional requirements and technical specifications.
- Lead, review and/or participate in solution design, build, test and go live activities on SAP Supply Chain solutions implementations, rollouts, or upgrade projects.
- Effectively delegate responsibilities to team members (within and outside our direct team), provide them with repeatable processes, and verify the quality of their work.
- Review current standards and continuously revise to ensure best practices.
- Serve as the conduit through D&T to enable businesses and technology.
- This is considered a senior role within the SAP Practice and SAP Strategic Initiatives team..

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**
- Bachelor or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting, or Business from an accredited institution or equivalent
- 15+ years of progressive SAP solutioning hands on experience leading up to architect level work.
- Deep expertise on one or more SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4 modules such us, Materials Management (MM), Inventory Management (IM), Sales and Distribution (SD), Transportation (S/4 TM), Condition contract management (CCM)
- Experience on S/4 implementations with focus on specific supply chain areas, examples production planning, procurement, production execution, inventory management, order management, pricing, transportation management, integration with trade planning systems and/or other S/4 capabilities.
- Functional and technical strategic thought leadership.
- Hands on experience with complex and large-scale SAP project implementations.
- Interpersonal skills to engage with all levels of Business and IT
- Strong mentoring skills to elevate other team members within and outside of our GM