About the Role:VF Corporation is seeking an exceptional SAP Master Data Management Product Owner to join our SAP ERP team in Shanghai, China. This role is pivotal to our SAP S/4 Transformation program in the APAC region, which aims to enhance flexibility, improve customer services, and reduce complexity by implementing industry best practices and adopting the SAP clean core strategy.Key Responsibilities:
Lead Implementation: Contribute to the implementation of the new S/4 solution, managing resources (both internal and external), timelines in the master data (articles, customers and vendors) space
Adopt Best Practices: Promote the adoption of industry best practices by leveraging S/4 standard capabilities.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitate collaboration across teams, manage and reconcile multiple stakeholder views, resolve conflicts, and address diverse audience perspectives.
Global Solution Alignment: Coordinate with global MDM team, make sure that master data processes are aligned with corporate solutions
Data Cleansing: Drive master data cleansing approach and for articles, customers and vendors and oversees successful migration to new S/4 platform
Specific Duties:
Business Process Translation: Translate business processes and requirements into system functionality.
Collaboration: Foster collaboration and trust to influence cross-functional teams, ensuring strategies are executed through reliable processes.
SAP MDG Expertise: Maintain deep knowledge of SAP capabilities in Articles, Customers and Vendors master data management for the fashion industry. Knowledge of integration technologies and protocols (IDOCs, BAPIs, APIs…) is requested
Master data management SME: Serve as the Subject Matter Expert on master data management flows and solutions, ensuring all requirements are met per fashion industry best practices
Documentation: Collaborate with business and team members to identify and document processes, functional specifications, test plans/scripts, and deployment plans.
Security Role Definitions: Define security roles for users in the SAP MDG space and participate in the segregation of duties
Support Transition: Coordinate with application support to ensure a seamless transition from Hypercare activities.
Audit Controls: Manage and satisfy SAP audit controls and pertinent SOX program requirements.
Hands-on Experience: Hands-on experience with SAP MDG, S4 HANA and Fiori user interface preferred.
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related area preferred, or equivalent work experience.
Experience: 6+ years of experience with SAP, with specific focus on MDG in the footwear and apparel industry. Experience in the implementation of SAP for a multinational group in the APAC region is required.
Skills: Ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure and time constraints. Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical skills are required; ability to apply systems knowledge to troubleshoot and analyze new issues is critical.
Leadership: Experience in supporting MDM operations for Product & Technology groups preferred.
Self-Starter: Must be a self-starter, able to work independently with a proactive working style.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Language: professional English (written and spoken) is a must
Special Requirements:
Travel: Travel by air and overnight, as required (20% of the time).
