Platform Owner ERP Indirect Procurement

**The Future Begins Here**

At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet.

Bengaluru, the city, which is India’s epicenter of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda’s recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.

**At Takeda’s ICC we Unite in Diversity**

**_ OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE _**
- Expertise in the area of SAP Ariba Procure to Pay
- Leads the analysis of complex business problems and manages business requirements within area of responsibilities.
- Leads development of scope definition and business priority-setting.
- Proactively identifies technology solutions to meet business objectives, taking into account the implications of change on the organization and all stakeholders.

**_ ACCOUNTABILITIES_**
- Provides technical and functional expertise in the area of Indirect Procurement (mainly SAP Ariba P2P)
- Establishes and manages the relationship with Finance, Procurement, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Systems teams
- Manages requirements gathering, prioritization and negotiation with business stakeholders in order to ensure the total solution delivered meets or exceeds expectations.
- Maintains and influences business process design; validates and interprets business needs by conducting feasibility studies and drafting business cases and use BPM Tooling
- Solves unique and complex problems with a broad impact on the business and interprets ways of prioritizing opportunities to streamline business and/or system processes.
- Uses knowledge of business operations, investigates and identifies operational needs, problems and opportunities and uses Business Process Mapping to phrase and manage requirements or organizational improvements.
- Provides leadership to project team to deliver mid-size and moderate complex system implementations, within cross functional projects that allow the business to reach its strategic objectives in a cost effective way.
- Makes decisions that impact, the work of employing organizations, achievement of organizational objectives or/and financial performance.
- Has authority and responsibility for a significant area of work, including technical, financial and quality aspects and may represent the organisation.
- Ensures documentation according to Takeda Quality Management System (QMS), Software Development Life Cycle and Project Life Cycle standards.
- Ensures delivered solutions are compliant with associated federal regulations (SOX, OFCCP, labour laws, GMP, GxP, GCP, etc.).
- Establish relationships with relevant colleagues from Global Functions within the Global IT Organization and leads change in analysing and guiding on solutions within ongoing processes.

**_ DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS _**

**Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise**
- Uses knowledge of business operations, investigates and identifies operational needs, problems and opportunities and uses Business Process Mapping to phrase and manage requirements or organizational improvements.
- Ensures documentation according to Takeda Quality Management System (QMS), Software Development Life Cycle and Project Life Cycle standards.
- Deep expertise in configuration / customizing of SAP Ariba P2P

**Leadership**
- Manages requirements gathering, prioritization and negotiation with business stakeholders in order to ensure the total solution delivered meets or exceeds expectations.
- Provides leadership to project team to deliver mid-size and moderate complex system implementations, within cross functional projects that allow the business to reach its strategic objectives in a cost effective way.

**Decision-making and Autonomy**
- Makes decisions that impact, the work of employing organizations, achievement of organizational objectives or/and financial performance

**Interaction**

Maintains and influences business process design; validates and interprets business needs by conducting feasibility studies and drafting business cases and use BPM Tooling
- Establish relationships with relevant colleagues from Global Functions within the Global IT Organization and leads change in analysing and guiding on solutions within ongoing processes.

**Innovation**
- Ensures delivered solutions are compliant with associated federal regulations (SOX, OFCCP, labour laws, GMP, GxP, GCP, etc.).

**Complexity**
- Solves unique and complex problems with a broad impact on the business and interprets ways of prioritizing opportunities to streamline business and/or system processes.

**_ EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:_**
- ** Essential**
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 6 to 8 years of Technical and Functional Expertise in SAP