SAP Production&Planning Analyst

The focus of an SAP Production&Planning Analyst is to actively facilitate work between business and IT groups to translate, manage, and prioritize requirements and enable creation of value-added IT solutions. For this reason, they need to deeply understand the business environment and processes of the business area being supported.

The SAP Production&Planning Analyst must also understand external influences on the business organization, such as competitors, regulatory requirements, best in class practices and economic factors.

What your responsibilities will be

• Ensure the implementation and continuous improvement of SAP Planning best practices, standards, and governance across planning processes and solutions.
• Participate in IT projects related to SAP Planning implementations, enhancements, and transformation initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders.
• Contribute actively to projects executed under both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, ensuring alignment with project objectives, timelines, and quality standards.
• Support and lead planning-related initiatives by gathering business requirements, analyzing processes, and translating business needs into effective SAP Planning solutions.
• Perform end-to-end Planning activities within SAP, including requirements analysis, solution design, configuration, build, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Coordinate and execute user acceptance testing (UAT), ensuring that delivered solutions meet business requirements and comply with defined standards.
• Develop and deliver user training sessions, documentation, and knowledge transfer activities to facilitate adoption of new functionalities and planning processes.
• Provide functional and technical support to end users in their daily operations, troubleshooting issues and ensuring an efficient and reliable planning environment.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and continuous improvement within SAP Planning solutions.
• Monitor system performance and data quality, proactively identifying risks, issues, and enhancement opportunities to maximize business value.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, education, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions).

• Degree in Mathematics, IT Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering or similar.
• You have at least 2-3 year of experience in a similar role, working in projects of SAP for production planning. Valuable experience in GXP environments.
• Availability to travel based on business needs.

Required Skills

• Functional knowledge of SAP PP.
• Being able to generate functional specifications for projects or enhancements.
• High level of spoken and written English.
• Team work player.

Desired skills

• S4H knowledge
• Basic functional knowledge of SD, MM, WM, PP/DS.
• IBP planning cycle knowledge.
• SAP configuration & customizing knowlegde.
• Technical troubleshooting & incident resolution.
• Integration architecture knowledge.
• Results oriented.

Would you like to join an international team working to improve the future of healthcare? Do you want to enhance the lives of millions of people? Grifols is a global healthcare company that since 1909 has been working to improve the health and well-being of people around the world. We are leaders in plasma-derived medicines and transfusion medicine and develop, produce and market innovative medicines, solutions and services in more than 110 countries and regions.

We believe that diversity adds value to our business, our teams, and our culture. We are committed to equal employment opportunities, fostering an inclusive environment where diversity makes us outstanding.

Help us lead one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. We are a world leader in plasma-derived medicines with a presence in more than 100 countries, and a growing global team of over 20.000 people., It is a brilliant opportunity for you, Grifols is fully aware that its employees are one of its major assets. We are committed to maintaining an atmosphere that encourages all our employees to develop their professional careers in an excellent working environment.