Senior Manager - SAP Analytics Cloud

Job description:

Are you ready to turn enterprise data into critical action with SAP Analytics Cloud and Datasphere? Step into a high-impact role where your leadership will shape how insights flow to decision makers and, ultimately, improve outcomes for patients and our business!

You will lead end-to-end delivery of advanced data analysis systems that harmonize data, standardize reporting, and bring predictive capabilities to life. Working within an agile, outcomes-focused team, you'll connect strategy to execution-guiding solution design, coaching engineers, and ensuring adoption of dashboards and applications that matter to the enterprise.

Based on a permanent basis, you will be empowered to lead the end-to-end journey from requirements to value realization. Do you thrive in a fast paced environment where you can set a vision, roll up your sleeves when needed, and see tangible results in how the business operates?

Accountabilities:

• Solution Design and Delivery: Lead the design and hands-on delivery of analytic applications, interactive dashboards, and benchmark models using SAC and Datasphere for import and live scenarios-ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and governed.
• Build unified, harmonized data models in Datasphere. Use SAP BDC to improve data handling, connection, and process automation. This unlocks enterprise analytics at scale.
• Integrated Analytics: Connect, model, and harmonize data from SAP and non-SAP sources to enable cross-system analytics through SAC; integrate SAC dashboards with Datasphere datasets for consistent, up-to-date insights.
• Advanced Reporting and UX: Design comprehensive, multi-tab reports with queries, visualizations, and drill-downs; champion standard processes in data visualization, accessibility, and user experience to drive adoption.
• Customization and Performance: Orchestrate data automation in Datasphere and customize SAC applications using JavaScript and other scripting languages; continuously optimize performance, remove bottlenecks, and recommend enhancements.
• Predictive and Advanced Features: Drive adoption of SAC predictive scenarios, Smart features, R-visualizations, and external libraries to create immersive, insight-rich user experiences that inform smarter decisions.
• Team Leadership and Coaching: Coordinate delivery teams and handle junior developers across the lifecycle; mentor and coach team members, build robust ways-of-working, and uphold software quality and documentation standards within agile and scrum environments.
• Collaborator Engagement and Change Adoption: Collaborate closely with business collaborators and product owners to assemble requirements, set clear expectations, and ensure engagement throughout delivery; translate complex needs into integrated analytics solutions that support end-to-end processes and deliver measurable business value.
• Delivery Governance and Impact: Own delivery timelines and outcomes, ensuring solutions move from concept to sustained adoption and measurable impact-progressing from immediate wins to enterprise-scale influence.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or a related field.
• 10-15 years of relevant experience, with at least 2-3 years as a Senior Consultant or in a comparable SAP SAC/Datasphere-focused role.
• Understanding of SAP Finance and/or Operations processes (valued).
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and delivering SAC solutions for reporting, including integration with SAP Datasphere.
• Validated hands-on experience with SAP Datasphere and SAP BDC for data management, integration, and automation.
• Expertise in SAC predictive functionality, Smart features, advanced story canvases, data blending, cross-calculations, input controls, and linked analysis.
• Advanced skills in connecting SAC/Datasphere to SAP HANA and other external databases.
• In-depth knowledge of data integration and ETL processes across SAC, Datasphere, and related analytics platforms.
• Advanced coding and scripting abilities in SQL, Python, and JavaScript for dashboard customization and data automation.
• Experience with SAC scripting for custom widgets, analytics applications, and automated data flows in Datasphere.

Team & Stakeholder Management:

• Strong background in overseeing team management, coordinating worksheets, handling delivery, and mentoring team members within agile environments.
• Experience collaborating across various business teams to translate requirements into robust analytical solutions.

Other Skills & Attributes:

• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, and ability to thrive in an agile, dynamic environment.
• Upbeat, organized, and self-motivated approach to work.
• Fluency in business English.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Understanding of SAP Finance and/or Operations processes (valued).
• Certification in SAC Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Low-Code/No-Code Developer, or related (appreciated).

Skills

Datasphere, Hana, SAC, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP HANA