ERP Functional Lead (Materials Management)

Job Title

ERP Functional Lead (Materials Management)

Reporting To

ERP Solution Delivery Manager

Contract Type

Permanent Full Time

Location

By Agreement

About Us - Our Business:

Glen Dimplex is a privately owned, international group headquartered in Ireland which operates across four main product areas: Heating & Ventilation, Consumer Appliances, Flame and Precision Cooling. Glen Dimplex is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of electric heating appliances and is a global leader in the development and delivery of low carbon solutions for space and water heating, cooling, and ventilation.

Our purpose is to be a leader in the transition to a more sustainable world. This is underpinned by our ‘Empower Now’ Sustainability strategy. On our sustainability journey, we will listen to our stakeholders, learn about new processes and technologies, partner with experts that will challenge us, empower our staff to go further, and set long‑term goals that are embedded into our business plans.

The Glen Dimplex Group IT team is responsible for the optimisation of live IT solutions and the delivery of new technologies across the Glen Dimplex global subsidiaries. 40% of Glen Dimplex subsidiaries operate SAP S/4Hana as their core ERP system. This role will be involved in optimising the existing SAP S/4Hana landscape and the future rollout of SAP S/4Hana to subsidiaries currently operating legacy ERP systems.

This is an exciting and varied role, where you will be working alongside a diverse team of technical consultants, business analysts, project managers, and stakeholders across the wider business. You will also be interfacing with senior management, business partners and SMEs on a regular basis.

Responsibilities:

• Manage requirements gathering and solution design with both business and technical audience.
• Capture and translate business requirements into technical design and a working solution.
• Perform configuration for Materials Management processes working with other team members to ensure integration with other modules in the SAP S/4Hana landscape.
• Provide business process design and documentation expertise, recommend business process and/or system improvements using formal and informal techniques. Lead the development and implementation of these improvements/ new processes.
• Produce high quality functional specification documents and work closely with the SAP S/4Hana development team throughout the development process.
• Serve as an expert on Materials Management processes and best practices in SAP S/4Hana.
• Identify areas of continuous improvement to maximise business benefit of the SAP S/4Hana solution

• Support the handover of new enhancements and projects to the end user, support user acceptance testing, perform training and develop training documentation.
• Support the data migration & cutover activities of projects for Materials Management.
• Serve as an escalation point for production issues.
• Lead the testing of SAP S/4Hana MM enhancements and projects, including functional unit testing, system integration testing and supporting user acceptance testing.

About You - Key Skills and Experience:

• 6 to 8 years’ working with SAP (preferably SAP S/4Hana) Materials Management module.
• Holds an SAP MM certification and is skilled at SAP MM module configuration and writing functional specification documentation for developments.
• Holds a strong understanding of Data required to support Materials Management processes.
• Possesses strong process knowledge in Materials Management.
• Experience with SAP EWM preferred but not essential.
• Can identify and analyse problems, recognise potential improvements, propose, and implement solutions.
• Comfortable presenting on a 1:1 basis and to groups.
• Self‑motivated, dynamic, and results‑driven.
• Team player, comfortable with all levels in an organisation
• Thrives on challenge and change.
• Attention to detail without losing bigger picture.
• Ability to deliver under pressure.

Our Values and Culture and Benefits:

The Glen Dimplex values are important guiding principles and define the way all employees across the Group work: We Think Customer, We Care About People, We Value Innovation and We Keep It Simple. Our core values are ingrained in our DNA and play an active part in everything we do. Each one reminds us to stay true to ourselves whilst driving us to create innovative products and solutions for our customers.

At Glen Dimplex, we are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all. We are focused on creating an inclusive culture and believe that it is essential to creating a dynamic and supportive workplace. We are committed to fostering a culture that embraces and celebrates differences in race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, and ability. We believe diverse perspectives and experiences are essential to our success as a company and a team.

We believe in investing in our employees’ well‑being and recognise the importance of work‑life balance. We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees’ physical, mental, and financial health. Our benefits package includes:

• Competitive salary Generous annual leave allowance
• Private Health Insurance
• Pension and Death in Service Benefit
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Supportive Family Leave policies.
• This role can be located in Newry; Dublin or Southampton office
• 4 days on site & one day working from home

We also offer additional benefits such as:

• Generous discounts on Company products.
• Bike to Work / Tax Saver initiatives.
• Regular wellbeing talks supports and resources.

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