Associate Manager- SAP Application Security

Job Description

Associate Manager- SAP Application Security

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.

• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centres focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centres are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Centre helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview

As a SAP Security associate, you will be responsible for handling SAP Authorization and user administration’s, ensuring the SAP application are complaint, secured and monitored. With limited guidance you should be handling authorization requirements, and manage the role creation, updates and maintenance. Assist in user administration related queries, extracting security reports and troubleshooting authorization issues.

What will you do in this role:

• Perform day-to-day SAP user administration tasks- user creation, role assignment, password resets, user locking/unlocking, and mass user maintenance.

• Troubleshoot authorization issues using SU53, ST01/STAUTHTRACE, and reviewing authorization trace logs.

• Design and maintain single, composite, and derived roles compliance to Segregation of Duties (SoD) principles.

• Perform Risk Analysis on role and user level.

• Create and maintain security documentation, role matrices, and test scripts.

• Extract Security reports and assist the audit queries.

• Support day to day security requests.

What should you have:

• 1–3 years of hands-on experience in SAP Security & GRC.

• Working knowledge of SAP user administration and role maintenance.

• Understanding of SAP authorization concepts – Authorization Objects, Fields, Profiles (composite/single), Derived roles, and Parent-Child role concepts.

• Understanding with organizational level and parent-derived role concepts for mass maintenance (Company Code, Plant, Sales Org, Purchasing Org, etc.)

• Experience in user creation, maintenance, provisioning/de-provisioning of roles

• Basic understanding of SAP tables related to security (USR*, AGR*, UST*) and SUIM reports.

• Basis understanding of SAP SOD and SOX compliance.

Nice to Haves

• Exposure to IT Service Management Tools (ServiceNow/Remedy), Demand Management Tools (Jira) and collaboration tools (Confluence, MS Teams) is preferred.

• Good Communication skills and collaboration with Functional, Technical and business users.

• Knowledge on how various ERP modules connected within SAP

• Adaptable mindset in enhancing skills on new areas (SAP Cloud areas)

Technologies

SAP ERP Applications - SAP ECC or S/4, GRC.

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are

We are in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

03/16/2026

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