Lead Consultant - SAP S/4HANA – IT Product Expert – Asset Maintenance

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Role Title: Lead Consultant - SAP S/4HANA – IT Product Expert – Asset Maintenance Location: Chennai We are one purpose-led global organisation. The enablers and innovators, ensuring that we can fulfil our mission to push the boundaries of science and discover and develop life-changing medicines. We take pride in working close to the cause, opening the locks to save lives, ultimately making a massive difference to the outside world. AstraZeneca (AZ) is in a period of strong growth and our employees have a united purpose to make a difference to patients around the world who need both our medicines and the ongoing developments from our science. In this journey AZ must continue to work across borders and with partners and new colleagues in a fast and seamless way. The ambition, size and complexity of the organisation, coupled with the opportunities afforded by new technology, has led the Board to approve a large-scale transformation programme – Axial. The Axial Programme will be powered by S/4HANA a new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system which will be implemented right across the organisation and will provide our business with standardised processes, enhanced financial management, common data and real time reporting, transforming the way we work through our entire supply chain - from bench to patient. The new system will be used by more than 20,000 employees daily, is foundational to all AZ entities and is central to most core business processes. This is a once in a generation programme for AstraZeneca and will shape our ways of working globally for many years to come. The Axial programme needs the best talent to work in it. Whether it’s the technical skills, business understanding or change leadership, we want to ensure we have the strongest team deployed throughout. We are aiming to deliver a world class change programme that leaves all employees with a fuller understanding of their role in the end-to-end nature of our global company. This programme will provide AZ with a competitive edge, to the benefit of our employees, customers and patients. The Product expert owns end-to-end solution design within the Production to Despatch Door IT Design Team. The role defines, maintains and improves AstraZeneca’s global template in line with fit-to-standard principles and SAP standard. As the central design authority, the role aligns business processes, SAP design, master data, integrations, reporting and compliance into a scalable, deployable global Asset Maintenance template. Working with Process Leads, site SMEs, Architecture, Data, Integration, Testing, Deployment and SI/SAP partners, the Product Expert ensures integration with Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Procurement, Inventory/Warehouse Management, EHS and Reporting. The role ensures the global solution is documented, governed, validated and tested to programme and AstraZeneca compliance standards. It leads design decisions through governance, handles risks and assesses local requirements without compromising the global template. During deployment, the role supports localisation, data migration, cutover, business readiness and hypercare, helping sites adopt the standard design while meeting GxP, validation, data integrity and change control requirements. The role also shapes a future-ready global maintenance template by applying expertise in digital and mobile maintenance, connected worker solutions, predictive maintenance, analytics, IoT and AI. What you’ll do • Own and lead the SAP S/4HANA Asset Maintenance solution design, ensuring it underpins the global standard process and integrates effectively across the wider ERP landscape • Act as the IT design authority for Asset Maintenance, translating business capability requirements into fit-to-standard SAP design decisions

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