Company Description

About us:  

Metro Global Solution Center (MGSC) is internal solution partner for METRO, a €31.6 Billion international wholesaler with operations in 32 countries through 625 stores & a team of 85,000 people globally. Metro operates in a further 10 countries with its Food Service Distribution (FSD) business and it is thus active in a total of 34 countries.

MGSC, location wise is present in Pune (India), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Szczecin (Poland). We provide HR, Finance, IT & Business operations support to 31 countries, speak 24+ languages and process over 18,000 transactions a day. We are setting tomorrow’s standards for customer focus, digital solutions, and sustainable business models. For over 10 years, we have been providing services and solutions from our two locations in Pune and Szczecin. This has allowed us to gain extensive experience in how we can best serve our internal customers with high quality and passion. We believe that we can add value, drive efficiency, and satisfy our customers.

Website: https://www.metro-gsc.in
Company Size: 1250-1300
Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Type: Privately Held
Inception:  2011

MDG Technical Senior Consultant - The domain ‘Supplier Management’ owns various solutions in Supplier Management, including supplier master data, the supplier web portal, contract & condition management and supplier evaluation and selection. We are end-to-end responsible for these solutions that are used by METRO countries.

Your role will be in supplier master data where you can support the digital transformation from a legacy in-house solution (MMS) to a modern SAP S4/HANA based supplier master data solution based on SAP MDG (Master Data Governance). This solution is currently being deployed within the METRO countries and will be part of the foundation of the future METRO IT landscape.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the in-house MDG-S technical expert, ensuring the stability and performance of MDGS solutions.
• Collaborate with business teams, service manager and service provider to define technical requirements and enhancements to ensure the proper integration of business processes.
• Coordinate and technically validate the deliverables from the service provider.
• Support system integration with SAP ECC, S/4HANA and non-SAP systems via SOA, IDOC, and API.
• Participate in system design, configuration reviews, and change control processes.
• Troubleshoot system issues and lead root cause analysis with the service provider.
• Ability to continuously evaluate and optimize MDG processes to improve efficiency and performance. 
• Support system upgrades in collaboration with Basis, GRC (user and rights management) and infrastructure teams.
• Ensure proper transport management, versioning, and documentation.
• Support testing activities: functional testing, SIT, UAT, defect management.
• Support data migration activities related to supplier master data.
• Prepare and review project documents such as design documents, configuration documents, technical/functional specification documents and present them to the stakeholders. Ensure updated documentation for primary support areas.
• Demand /Requirement Management - Ensure daily monitoring of assigned Incidents and Change Requests to avoid any slippage or SLA breaches.

Required key competencies and technical skills:

• Minimum 5-8 years SAP technical expertise, with at least 4 years in SAP MDG (Business Partner/Supplier)
• In-depth knowledge of S/4HANA and SAP Master Data Governance (MDG)
• Strong skills in ABAP (including object-oriented), BRF+, FPM, API, and Web Dynpro.
• Hands on experience in core components of SAP MDG, Consolidation, Solution Manger, Document Management, DQM, Archiving.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Strong team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of SAP BODS is an advantage.
• Basic understanding of SAP BTP is a bonus.
• SAP MDG certification (preferred)
• Being a team player and collaborating well with colleagues from IT and business across all METRO units and countries.

Qualifications

• Any Graduation or higher degree in Computer, Information Technology, or any IT degree (B.Sc(IT), MCA, B.E., B.Tech, B.Sc(Comp) etc.)
• Good communication skills to communicate with customers, team members, and stakeholders.
• Very good fluency in English (written and verbal)
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.