Sourcing Business Process Analyst

Sourcing Business Process Analyst

About Advanced Energy

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS), enables design breakthroughs and drives growth for leading semiconductor and industrial customers. Our precision power and control technologies, along with our applications know-how, inspire close partnerships and innovation in thin-film and industrial manufacturing. We are proud of our rich heritage, award-winning technologies, and we value the talents and contributions of all Advanced Energy's employees worldwide.

Position Summary:

The Sourcing Business Process Analyst serves as the primary liason between Global Commodity Management, other Supply Chain functions, and IT in the design of business information systems, incorporating new updates to ERP systems (SAP S4/HANA) to improve company work-flow, production, efficiency and effectiveness. In addition to developing and implementing price, Lead Time, processes, procedures, and other supporting business infrastructure, the analyst provides day-to-day support, ongoing process improvement and implementation of new functionality.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and Solution Definition:

• Update and maintain SAP S4/HANA: Vender Master, PIR, Source List, and Qouta Arrangement data as directed from the GCM.

• Identifies system strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement with automation and mass update methods.
• Combines a strategy of promoting business innovation with major business process improvements.
• Analyzes work samples and methods; measuring work performance; workflow, and work methods; developing new procedures.
• Understand the various dataset tables in SAP and how they interact with each other for speed and problem solving.
• Assists user community in analyzing and defining needs; creates detailed specifications from which programs will be written.
• Reviews and edits requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution.
• Develops functional specifications and system design specifications.

• Technical Recommendation and Testing:

• Oversees testing and implementation of new functionality that affects business software applications including the ERP and PLM master data.

• Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner.
• Works with affected personnel to identify required changes and communicates necessary changes to development.
• Communicates needed changes to development team.

• Project Execution:

• Assists in enforcement of project deadlines and schedules.

• Takes input from supervisor and appropriately and accurately applies comments/feedback.
• Communicates and applies project standards, manages resources in accordance with project schedule.
• Consistently delivers high-quality services to internal customers.
• Understands the components of running a fiscally successful project.

Other responsibilities:

• Architects and designs change management business processes and workflows, and integrates and aligns these with the capabilities of PLM and ERP Business System modules.
• Responsible for analyzing impact of issues/solutions on other areas of the company.Creates, documents, updates, and trains on any process changes.
• Works with IT to provide input and technical expertise for development and support of PLM and ERP systems.
• Performs work as assigned by supervisor.
• Performs work in accordance with defined business processes and with the strategic direction of the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or computer information systems, or equivalent education and/or experience.
• Minimum of three to five years of production planning, material management or configuration management experience in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
• Minimum of two years experience working with ERP systems, preferably SAP.
• Proven Project management (independent management of projects from beginning to completion).

Project & Process Management:

• Ability to independently manage projects from planning through completion.
• Ability to build relationships with and influence a diverse range of coworkers.
• Ability to provide leadership among key contributors without benefit of direct line authority.
• Demonstrated experience performing business process mapping and coordination of activities necessary to implement cross functional solutions of the different teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks.
• Ability to solve problems efficiently and effectively
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment.

Technical:

• Understanding of relational databases.
• Experience of ERP systems, mainly SAP S4/HANA.
• Knowledge of software programs (e.g., MS Office, SAP, Adobe Acrobat).
• Knowledge of industry standards relevant to ECO's, product assembly guidelines, product testing procedures, and electrical circuits.
• Ability to envision appropriate information architecture and document organization for a variety of projects .
• Ability to gather and organize information from various sources and individuals.
• Ability to quickly grasp advanced technological concepts and translate them for appropriate audiences, including a highly technical audience.
• Proven ability to use professional and technical concepts appropriate to business engineering to design field support solutions.

As part of our total rewards philosophy, we believe in offering and maintaining competitive compensation and benefits programs for our employees in order to attract and retain a talented, highly engaged workforce. Our compensation programs are focused on equitable, fair pay practices including market-based base pay, an annual pay-for-performance incentive plan, we offer a strong benefits package in each of the countries in which we operate.

Advanced Energy is committed to diversity in its workforce including Equal Employment Opportunity for Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

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