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Benefits include:

• 30 days annual leave plus special leave
• Group accident insurance
• Brand-new, modern worksite
• Option for job bike leasing
• Subsidized canteen
• Subsidized company pension scheme
• Relocation Assistance

Position Summary

Our client is one of the world's most successful distributors of semiconductor products and related services. They are also an S&P 500 listed group. Employees in 70 countries set new standards every day in terms of innovation and quality, having been established in this market for 100 years.

Their state of the art distribution centre in Bernburg (Leipzig area) is due to go live in early 2025. This €250m Distribution Centre is managed by a bespoke SAP EWM System. This is the next generation of warehouse management and operations. Over the next 6 months, significant testing and debugging will take on site to ensure that the facility is ready to go live in Spring 2025.

Would you like to play an integral role in getting this facility up and running? Once the site gores live, you will then be supporting the day to day activities on site, providing essential technical support and maintenance services to this warehouse management system, liaising with shopfloor operatives and senior management to ensure the efficient running of the system and the associated processes: resolving issues in a timely and efficient manner; providing guidance on best practice; training and setting up new users; optimising and further testing the system to widen its capabilities.

This role will be part of the local IT support team, responsible for running the application landscape of the Bernburg site, monitoring and trouble shooting.

Your Profile:

• Very good understanding of end-to-end Logistics business processes
• Very good understanding of Logistics application environments including the IT Infrastructure set-up as well as the up- and downstream system integration.
• Multi-year experience in SAP EWM application support or any other modern warehouse management system would be preferred.
• Experience in cross-department/cross-system root cause analysis and defining of workaround solutions
• Deep knowledge of SAP EWM core functionality and customizing would be preferred
• Experience with material flow related process know-how and applications would be preferred
• Knowhow of defining functional design specifications for enhancements would be preferred
• Strong analytical skills
• Structured working methods and ability to work independently with personal responsibility and an proactive approach
• Solid teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Good communication skills
• ABAP skills is a not a must but nice-to-have
• Fluent in German and at least basic English skills

Main Responsibilities:

• Support the Logistics operational shifts
• Part of the control tower team and the IT application support team to ensure operations in the warehouse
• Technical monitoring of all application interfaces and of the warehouse management system related alerts, errors, KPIs
• Extracting of reports and preparing of specific analyses
• Work with an IT ticket system documenting incidents and enhancements
• Analysis of incoming incidents and assignment to the responsible party
• Classifying of an incident looking at severity, impact, dependencies, incident types, etc.
• Analysis of root cause of an incident considering master data, WMS documents, customizing/coding, operational data, etc. in alignment with all involved stakeholders
• Evaluation and implementation of workarounds and ad-hoc support to the Logistics team
• Escalation of incidents if they represent a thread to the operations
• Interface to 3rd Level Support and application development team
• Interface to SAP Cloud Support team, in-house IT Infrastructure teams and other application teams like SAP-ERP, SAP-MES, SAP-GTS, etc.

To Apply

If you have the skills and experience to succeed in this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply online and one of our Consultants will contact you to conduct an initial pre screen interview if selected. If you would like to discuss the role before applying, contact Paul Mc Quade at Futures Recruitment in Leeds for more info.

Experience:

• SAP EWM: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in 06406 Bernburg (Saale)