Global SAP Instance COE Manager

Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for a Global SAP instance COE  Manager . In this role you will be part of a global team working on challenging, meaningful projects impacting core business activities. Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster and simpler way. Bunge is committed to operating and thriving in the digital world - creating world class agile teams where teammates are empowered and encouraged to collaborate and test and learn to succeed.

At Bunge, people don't just come here to work, they come here to grow - solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers. Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, generous paid time off program, flexible work arrangements, and opportunity to progress. Our hybrid work environment provides a balance of in-office and remote work.
Most importantly, in all we do we live our values:
•    Act as One Team by fostering inclusion, collaboration, and respect
•    Drive for Excellence by being agile, innovative and efficient
•    Do What's Right by acting safely, ethically, and sustainably

Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Global Center or Excellence (COE) professional to join the Global SAP Functional & Process COE team in the Business Technology (BT) organization. The Global SAP instance COE Manager will be responsible for overseeing the proper management and overall governance of a multi SAP instance environment. This role will drive alignment and best practices to manage the overall architectural landscape of SAP applications and solutions. This role will partner closely with SAP and non SAP teams, other BT professionals, Business teams and third party vendors. The role reports to the Senior Director  in the Global SAP Functional & Process COE organization. 

Essential Functions:

• Single point of accountability for the management of the SAP instances across the different regions.  The instances must be managed as they are one:
  • SAP instance management
  • SAP administration
  • Database administration
  • Upgrades and maintenance
  • Performance tuning
  • Monitoring
  • Security and access
  • Leveraging best practices in order to manage the instances following a harmonised set of governance and practices or procedures
• Lead/ Manage release management process in line with audit & compliance requirements and instance policy and procedures
• Lead (regression) testing group in line with the release management
• Works closely with all functions under the Global CEO to ensure alignment and standardization plus equally responsible to ensure proper testing, validation and documentation of all code, program and configuration changes 
• Align on tools governance, check points and approach to move changes from development, quality assurances systems to production instances
• Ensure proper level of scrutiny, testing, validation and documentation of all codes, program and configuration changes 
• Enhance the overall quality and quantity of automated testing tools across business units
• Ensures the team is fully aware and they follow these standards across the different instances of SAP or regions
• The goal is to manage and deploy solutions following one set of standards, governance and approach
• Provide strategic direction on future SAP landscape architecture, instance consolidations and greater global integration
• Responsible to manage a number of service or hardware providers across the regions and SAP instances  

Education/Experience:

• Degree required in Computer Science or other related technical degree or qualification
• 15  years of demonstrated experience in managing complex SAP environments  
• 15 years SAP basis experience
• Strong and current skill in high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)
• Strong and current skill in database administration (HANA DB).
• Knowledge of third party integration tools or solutions as well as SAP BTP / SAP PI PO
• Fluent in English
• People management skills (across diverse geographical region)
• Certification in Project Management or ITIL - nice to have

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