Sr Supply Chain Analyst / SAP IBP Business Process Owner

Fresenius Medical Care is a healthcare company seeking a Sr Supply Chain Analyst / SAP IBP Business Process Owner. This role involves overseeing SAP Integrated Business Planning to support supply chain processes and collaborating with IT and cross-functional teams to enhance planning performance.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as business superuser and functional lead for SAP IBP (Demand, Supply, Inventory, S&OP, Control Tower, Scenario Planning)
• Translate business needs into functional requirements, system design inputs, testing scenarios, and enhancement requests
• Ensure SAP IBP configuration, master data, planning views, key figures, and dashboards align with business requirements
• Act as first escalation point for SAP IBP planning and system issues
• Support and improve integrated planning processes including demand planning, supply planning, inventory planning, and S&OP
• Drive standardization of planning processes across regions, products, and supply chain sites
• Define planning governance, calendars, review cycles, and exception management processes
• Partner cross-functionally to improve visibility, alignment, and decision-making
• Maintain SAP IBP enhancement pipeline based on business value and user feedback
• Lead requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, and user story development
• Partner with IT and SAP teams on system enhancements, integrations, and roadmap initiatives
• Improve forecasting accuracy, service levels, inventory optimization, and planning efficiency
• Lead UAT for SAP IBP releases, enhancements, and system changes
• Develop training materials, process documentation, and user guides
• Train planners and cross-functional users on SAP IBP functionality and planning best practices
• Establish and support a superuser network to drive adoption and issue resolution
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of SAP IBP master data and planning inputs
• Monitor and resolve data quality issues impacting forecasts, supply plans, and reporting
• Support development of dashboards, KPIs, alerts, and planning analytics
• Define governance standards for data, planning assumptions, and system changes
• Analyze key data to identify options for managing and developing the overall network and strategy
• Support with analysis on key elements including demand, capability, and cost
• Analyze customer types, demand geographies, asset utilization and efficiency, and activity-based costing
• Assist in development of network strategy recommendations including optimal use of current assets, investments in new technology, expansion of capacity, etc
• Develop compelling business cases for projects / programs based on analytics, through scenarios, cost / time / resources analysis
• Facilitate development of bottom up functional business / operation plans
• Support in development of comprehensive implementation plan, includes capacity studies, studies for future state operations, detailed allocation plans, route and/or cross dock optimizations, customer or territory re-alignments and execution plan for each project
• Partner with Materials Management on overseas global inbound analysis, aid in management of network inventory, support as necessary with supply and demand analysis
• Collect, format, cleanse and analyze internal or external data
• Manage and Maintain SQL Database
• Develop continual data refresh, to enable up to date modeling analysis
• Maintain Master Data
• Provide network modeling expertise
• Provide sufficient documentation for modeling efforts to enable explanation of optimization journey
• Builds productive working relationships
• May provide assistance to junior level staff with general tasks that require a better understanding of functions, as directed by immediate supervisor
• May refer to senior level staff for assistance with higher level problems that may arise
• Escalates issues to supervisor/manager for resolution, as deemed necessary
• Review and comply with the Code of Business Conduct and all applicable company policies and procedures, local, state and federal laws and regulations
• Assist with various projects as assigned by direct supervisor
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 3+ years of SAP IBP experience as a superuser, functional lead, or business system owner
• Experience with SAP IBP implementation, enhancement, or support activities
• Experience working cross-functionally with Supply Chain, IT, Finance, and Operations teams
• Strong knowledge of SAP IBP modules: Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Optimization, S&OP, Control Tower, Scenario Planning
• Understanding of SAP IBP architecture including planning areas, key figures, master data, and planning versions
• Strong Excel skills; experience with Power BI, Tableau, or SAP Analytics Cloud is a plus
• Strong understanding of supply chain KPIs (forecast accuracy, service levels, inventory turns, capacity utilization)
• Ability to translate system outputs into business insights and decisions
• Experience in process design, documentation, and continuous improvement
• Strong facilitation skills for workshops and cross-functional alignment
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority
• Experience leading training, testing, and adoption activities
• Strong ownership mindset with focus on process standardization and business impact
• Bachelor's Degree required. MS preferred in Business, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering or other related field
• 3-5 years of Supply Chain / Logistics, Engineering, Business Analysis or equivalent combination of education and experience required
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to solve complex problems, generate ideas, and develop creative solutions
• Proficient in MS Office Suite, SQL, VBA – working with formulas, large data tables, pivot tables, charts, queries, custom functions, data management and analysis
• Must have experience using AIMs modeling software or equivalent Supply Chain Guru and/or LogicNet Plus
• Experience with statistical and / or data-mining tools (Minitab, SQL Server etc.)
• Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, etc.)
• Knowledge of a variety of Supply Chain systems, network modeling, simulation, ERP, WMS, mapping software and routing software
• Ability to manage, plan, organize and work through multiple assignments within effective timeline
• A high attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced global team environment with other technical teams
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
• Experience integrating SAP IBP with SAP ECC or S/4HANA preferred
• Healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical device, consumer goods, manufacturing, or multi-site distribution environments
• Experience in supply chain transformation, S&OP maturity improvement, or planning digitization initiatives
• Experience building superuser networks and governance frameworks
• Familiarity with Agile tools (Jira, ServiceNow) and structured enhancement processes