Senior IT Architect SAP

At Gentherm, we say, “It’s about the person.” We’re with you on a cold winter day when you turn on your heated seat and steering wheel or helping manage patient body temperature in the operating room, recovering room or intensive care units. We take a human approach with everything we do.

As the global market leader of innovative thermal management and pneumatic comfort technologies for the automotive industry we embrace the opportunity to create and deliver extraordinary solutions that make meaningful differences in everyday life. We do this by improving health, wellness, comfort and energy efficiency.

We embrace an entrepreneurial spirit and combine that with our global leadership to deliver results. Working at Gentherm provides you the opportunity to not only shape the future of the automotive and medical industries, but also influence your career throughout the company. You will be engaged, challenged and inspired by our team to deliver leading thermal technologies that positively impact lives around the world.

SENIOR IT ARCHITECT, SAP

IMPACT and OPPORTUNITY

Join our dynamic team and play a key role in shaping the future of our supply chain and manufacturing operations! In this role, you'll support both logistics departments and the shop floor in designing and developing efficient, forward-thinking business processes within SCM and production. Your core responsibilities will include the implementation, integration, and continuous optimization of system processes. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and ensure operational excellence. Strong communication skills are essential, as you’ll be part of a global team working across regions and time zones.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Visualize available standard functionalities of SAP MM, WM, PP, SD
• Work directly with business partners to gather requirements for enhancements and deliver solutions to business issues in the overall logistic area
• Responsible for designing, configuring, documenting, delivering, supporting, and testing SAP logistics solutions (i.e. materials management, production planning, warehouse management, production and sales and distribution) to meet business requirements
• Design functional specifications and work with developers to oversee the timely completion and efficiency of development objects, conduct unit, and integration testing and maintain documentation
• Collaborate with representatives of other IT/functional areas to ensure end to end process integration and consistency
• Identify opportunities to standardize processes and system configuration enterprise wide and ensure compliance across all implementation to these standards
• Ensure business application systems are developed in a way that complies with established standards, methodologies and best practices.
• Advise management of the project status and problems, or potential problems, on a regular basis
• Assist in designing the logistic roadmap including migration to SAP S4/HANA

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor in Information Systems
• 3 years of experience in at least two areas of SAP MM/WM/PP/SD customization and consulting with logistics business partners
• Strong communication skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• At least one additional language (German or Spanish for US; English for CN)
• ABAP development skills; not only debugging, but at least 2 years development
• Develop BADIs, user exits, enhancements in a global system
• Experience with S4 / HANA
• Strong ERP process knowledge
• EDI knowledge ANSI X.12, EDIFACT, ODETTE, VDA

NICE TO KNOW

COMPETENCIES:

• Deliver Results
  • Understand the mission and output of your team; set SMART objectives and deliver
• Drive Change
  • Focus on agility and commitment to continuous improvement; Understand and act on internal and external drivers of change
• Build Capability
  • Foster a culture of learning and development; Support individual growth through continuous feedback to achieve personal and professional goals
• Cultivate Innovation
  • Openly embrace, create, implement and support new and innovative ideas, processes and technology that deliver business results

Gentherm is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.