Consultant, SAP Basis

Hydro Global Business Services (GBS) is an organizational area that operates as an internal service provider for the Hydro group. Its ultimate purpose is to deliver relevant IT, financial and HR business services to all business areas within the company.

What you will be doing

ROLE PURPOSE:

SAP S/4HANA is the new selected strategic ERP system of Hydro Extruded Solutions, which is rolled out continuously within the business area. The application runs from cloud. The technical operation efforts and basis support are delivered in strong collaboration between teams from different service providers such as Accenture and IBM and HES SAP cloud operation team.

The role covers the operational activities on ERP platforms (majority of it in SAP HANA, with much less emphasis on Oracle, MS DAX) and responsible of the ERP solutions’ availability, integrity, performance, security, maintenance. As the SAP Solution is running on cloud, the role also involves 3rd party management activities (with SAP and IBM as selected cloud service providers).

This role grants various opportunity to suhpport and deliver technical solutions in SAP systems, possibility to work together with integration experts, functional consultants and cooperate with our service providers’ representatives. This role also has a key part in the Solution Manager implementation, with emphasis on CHARM management, wave imports, monitoring solutions (jobs, interfaces, business processes).

Responsibilities:

• Working on BASIS related issues as per business priorities
• Ensure the technical aspects of SAP solution are in line with best practices (printer management, integrations, batch queue management, transport management)
• Disaster recovery planning
• Ensure the SAP installation meets compliance requirements (Security, Authorization, Change management)
• Act as hands-on System administrator (system monitoring, transport, environment management)
• Execute technical issue troubleshooting and resolution - involving and driving SAP support (3rd party management)
• Participate in project deployment like SAP implementation, upgrade, migration rollout.
• Act as a BASIS / technical focal point for rollout projects, ensuring continuous alignments with project representatives to align on their demands
• Participate and support the creation of deployment planning.
• Drive the planning of technical upgrades alongside all systems in collaboration with the Release Management (as the Release Calendar includes the technical activities also)
• Work together with FI, MM, SD, functional consultants, integration experts and ABAP developers
• Align with SAP on outages and security notes implementations. Support the communication process regarding the outages
• Attend on scheduled service calls and reviews with service providers
• Improvement and maintenance on service processes, tools and system documentation
• Act as SOLMAN IS Operator, responsible for scheduled imports
• Support the implementation process of SOLMAN CHARM transport management, participate in testing and act as a focal point for local users regarding process know-how distribution
• Act as SOLMAN Change Control Manager supporting the timely resolution of these high priority incidents.
• Act as a technical counterpart of SOLMAN monitoring implementation project
• Willingness to work in different shifts to cover European and US time zone support
• Support, manage and configure Security Bridge system
• Handle and report the security alerts sent by Security Bridge

What will make you successful?

Work Experience :

• 8+ years experience in SAP Basis Administrator role
• Experience with SOLMAN CHARM processes including Cross-System Object lock
• Experience in IT Operations according to ITIL best practices
• Experience with ERP solutions
• Structured, analytic, problem solving oriented
• Excellent communication skills, able to resolve multi-cultural communication gaps
• Strong internal drive and motivation to push issue resolution and follow up properly
• With clear goal setting, ability to work individually, making decisions within the remit of this role and use “management by exception” principle
• Also a good team player, recognizing those situations where sharing workload (supported by appropriate information sharing) is beneficial

Licensing/Certification:

• SAP Technical certificate or equivalent experience in SAP Basis
• ITIL foundation certificate is a must
• ITIL advanced certificate is an advantage
• Project management experience is an advantage

Technical Knowledge:

• SAP Basis experience
• SAP Solution Manager experience with CHARM

Industry Experience: Global ERP (SAP, preferably SAP HANA) experience

Education: MSc. or BSc. in relevant IT, Engineering or Informatics field

Functional Knowledge: Understanding of an SAP based ERP environment and infrastructure

Language: Fluency in English is a must

What we offer you

• Working at the world’s only fully integrated aluminum and leading renewable energy company
• Diverse, global teams
• Flexible work environment
• We provide you the freedom to be creative and to learn from experts
• Possibility to grow with the company, gain new certificates
• Attractive benefit package

Equal opportunities

At Hydro, we believe diversity makes us stronger. We welcome diverse experiences and perspectives, and invite all qualified candidates to apply. We review every application fairly and strive to provide equal opportunities for everyone to grow and succeed.

Apply before: 10/09/2026