Mars Retail & E-commerce

Product analyst - SAP WM & Logistics

India In person Full-time
  • Location: HYD-Mars India
  • What are we looking for?
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
  • Relevant SAP, Warehouse Management, Logistics, or business analysis certification is preferred.
  • Experience supporting Warehouse Management and Logistics business processes.
  • Experience with enterprise Warehouse Management and Logistics solutions; experience with SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, SAP WM, SAP EWM, or comparable platforms is preferred.
  • Experience gathering requirements and preparing functional and process documentation.
  • Experience supporting testing, deployment, cutover, hypercare, and change-management activities.
  • Experience working with business stakeholders, technical teams, and delivery partners.
  • Experience supporting regional or global initiatives is preferred.
  • Min 8 yrs of experience with core SAP WM & EWM Knowledge:
  • 2 End-to - End SAP WM/EWM implementation /Rollout experience with strong business process and configuration knowledge.
  • Organization Structure: Defining and mapping warehouse numbers, storage types, storage sections, picking areas, and storage bins.
  • Master Data Management: Configuring material masters, storage bin structures, hazard ratings, and capacity checks.
  • Warehouse Processes: Setting up internal routing, physical inventory procedures, replenishment strategies, and slotting/rearrangement, Batch management
  • Strategies: Advanced configuration of put away and picking strategies (e.g., FIFO, LIFO, fixed bin, large/small quantities).
  • What will be your key responsibilities?

Business Analysis & Product Support

  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand operational needs, pain points, and improvement opportunities.
  • Gather, analyze, document, validate, and manage business requirements.
  • Translate business needs into functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and solution requirements.
  • Support prioritization and refinement of enhancements, incidents, technical debt, and product backlog items.
  • Conduct impact assessments and contribute to business cases for new initiatives.
  • Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions to drive clear decisions and solution alignment.
  • Convert user feedback and operational insights into product enhancements, backlog items, and continuous-improvement opportunities.
  • Plan and support user workshops, demonstrations, feedback sessions, training, and adoption activities.
  • Build strong relationships with warehouse, logistics, distribution, and business users to understand operational priorities and adoption barriers.

Warehouse Management & Logistics Expertise

  • Provide business-process and product expertise across Warehouse Management, Logistics Execution, Inventory, Distribution, and connected Supply Chain capabilities, independent of any single technology platform.
  • Support inbound, outbound, inventory, shipping, receiving, and warehouse execution processes.
  • Support process harmonization and adoption of enterprise and global standards where applicable.
  • Identify opportunities for simplification, automation, control improvement, and better user experience.
  • Support business process design aligned with enterprise, regional, and cluster operating requirements.
  • Act as the functional subject matter expert for assigned WMS and Logistics capabilities.

AMEA DT CoE Responsibilities

  • Support the AMEA DT CoE in driving solution consistency, governance, and functional best practices.
  • Contribute to process standardization and template alignment across clusters and regional initiatives.
  • Participate in solution reviews, design validation, and governance activities.
  • Promote reusable solutions and help reduce unnecessary regional customization.
  • Develop and maintain functional standards, playbooks, process documentation, and knowledge assets.
  • Share lessons learned and reusable practices across projects, deployments, and sustainment teams.
  • Contribute to capability building and continuous improvement within the CoE.
  • Contribute to capability roadmaps by connecting business priorities, user needs, operational insights, technology opportunities, and enterprise direction.
  • Evaluate relevant AI, analytics, Copilot, digital-assistant, and emerging-technology opportunities in partnership with business and technology teams, aligned with enterprise standards and responsible-use requirements.
  • Identify and assess automation opportunities across warehouse, logistics, inventory, and distribution processes, and support benefit definition and tracking.
  • Ensure documentation, knowledge transfer, and reusable CoE assets are completed and maintained across projects, deployments, releases, and sustainment.
  • Develop and maintain business process flows, functional specifications, solution documentation, work instructions, training materials, test assets, support runbooks, and knowledge articles.

Solution Delivery & Deployment Support

  • Participate in regional, global, and transformation initiatives.
  • Support discovery, fit-gap assessments, solution evaluations, and estimation activities.
  • Contribute to solution design, configuration validation, and deployment-readiness assessments.
  • Coordinate and support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and defect resolution.
  • Support cutover planning, data readiness, go-live, hypercare, stabilization, and transition to sustainment.
  • Work with Deployment Managers and business teams to support adoption and operational readiness.
  • Coordinate with delivery partners and project teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Support business readiness, stakeholder alignment, communication, training, and adoption planning through deployment and stabilization.
  • Assess business, process, data, integration, control, and user impacts associated with regional, global, and transformation initiatives.
  • Support business integration and process harmonization across clusters, regions, enterprise platforms, third-party logistics providers, and connected Supply Chain capabilities.

Sustainment & Operational Excellence

  • Support Level 2 and Level 3 functional issue resolution within the agreed support model.
  • Analyze recurring incidents and problems to identify root causes and long-term corrective actions.
  • Support release planning, change assessment, and change-management activities.
  • Monitor solution health and identify opportunities to improve performance, control, reliability, and user experience.
  • Drive continuous improvement and automation opportunities using operational and business insights.
  • Ensure effective transition of project deliverables into steady-state support with clear documentation and ownership.

Integration & Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Solution Architects, BRMs, Deployment Managers, CoE colleagues, business teams, and delivery partners.
  • Support integration activities involving warehouse and logistics processes.
  • Work with adjacent capabilities including Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, Production Planning, Quality Management, and Transportation solutions.
  • Participate in cross-functional, regional, global, and integration initiatives as required.
  • Ensure process and solution decisions remain aligned across integrated Supply Chain capabilities.
  • What can you expect from Mars?
  • Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
  • Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
  • A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
  • An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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