IT RECRUITING & STAFFING COMPANY OF THE YEAR
SAP Business Analist Supply Chain @ Meat & More
AMKP03946
Function
- Analysis: You analyze questions and issues, then collaborate with key users and the SAP implementation partner to explore possible solutions. By gathering relevant information and acting as a liaison between the business and the implementation partner, you ensure that needs are clearly communicated and necessary data is provided in a timely manner. With your functional knowledge of applications and processes, you also identify opportunities for optimization within the department’s SAP environment.
- Maintaining Roles and Rights: You map out the various tasks and processes within a department in detail, down to the transaction level, and define a structured role hierarchy. By creating and regularly updating a responsibility matrix, you ensure that employees are assigned the correct roles and rights in SAP based on their functions. This helps maintain appropriate access rights within SAP, contributing to a secure and efficient working environment.
- Training Key Users: You share your extensive knowledge of SAP modules with key users and business champions, enabling these departments to operate independently with SAP. You keep your own knowledge of SAP functionalities up-to-date, follow market developments, and train key users to enhance their SAP skills. Additionally, you explore new possibilities within SAP and transfer this knowledge to the organization to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Validating / Testing: In collaboration with key users and business champions, you validate and test the solutions delivered by the implementation partner. You check if the delivered work meets the specified requirements, perform unit tests and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and document new functionalities. You also ensure clear communication with the business, resulting in high-quality work that meets end-user needs.
- Participating in Projects: You actively participate in projects within your field, supporting IT in optimizing information systems and data flows. You also assist the business and organization in improving business data and work processes, always adhering to the agreed terms and the company’s needs. Through your contribution, you continuously achieve optimizations that enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.
- Daily Support: You support daily operations by resolving support queries from key users, ranging from KIR (Keep It Running) questions to Change Requests (CR) for minor optimizations. This includes following up and analyzing tickets, estimating the required effort, working on change requests in collaboration with the implementation partner, and accurately recording and communicating queries and issues to the business. This helps ensure continuous adjustment and optimal, efficient service.
- Knowledge Building: You proactively build knowledge within the business domains for which you are responsible in SAP, aiming to continuously implement improvements. This involves keeping up with new SAP functionalities and innovations, attending relevant training courses, and self-studying new developments and market trends. You use this knowledge to implement innovative solutions that enhance the performance of the business domain.
Profile
Experience and Background
- You have a bachelor’s or university degree in ICT or Economics (e.g., business engineering, commercial sciences, TEW) or equivalent experience;
- You have initial extensive experience with SAP;
- Experience in modeling processes using BPMN;
- Knowledge of food processing and/or the retail market is a plus.
Competencies
- You are capable of training others;
- You have strong communication skills to translate business questions into actionable items for the implementation partner;
- You have a very pragmatic approach, and your ‘hands-on’ mentality means you like to actively contribute to projects;
- You are resilient under stress;
- You can build both formal and informal networks and know how to engage all stakeholders;
- You have a structured approach but are also proactive and flexible enough to work in a rapidly evolving environment.
Language Skills
- You have active knowledge of Dutch, both spoken and written. Knowledge of English is a plus.
Offer
- Stable and growing company: Meat&More has grown strongly with their brands such as Neighborhood Butchers and Bon'Ap. The company has grown in 30 years to a company with 180 retail outlets and more than 1,500 employees;
- Meat&More is a Belgian company with short decision lines;
- Innovation and sustainability: The company is committed to sustainability and innovation within the food sector. As an employee, you will contribute to their mission to bring healthier and more sustainable products to the market;
- Good working atmosphere: Meat&More is known for its pleasant work culture where teamwork and respect are key;
- Training and advancement opportunities: The company invests in the training and development of its employees. This includes an own internal academy;
- At Meat&More they resolutely opt for a thorough talent approach. In the past, the company won the Talent Mobility Award, a prize for Belgian organizations that focus on the agility of talent. In 2019, they were nominated again with a different case.
Keywords
SAP Business Analist Supply Chain @ Meat & More
Meat&More is a rapidly growing family-owned company in the food industry, founded in 1990 with its headquarters in Aalter. The company operates in both retail and food production, focusing on providing hassle-free meals for its customers. They achieve this through two strong store brands: Buurtslagers and Bon'Ap. With over 1,500 employees and 180 store locations across Flanders, Meat&More is one of the largest food companies in the region. The company focuses on ready-to-eat and ready-to-heat products, offering a wide range of items that go beyond just meat, including sandwiches, salads, and daily meals. As a food company, they stand out due to their centralized approach and efficient operations. Meat&More is fully vertically integrated, handling everything from the receipt and storage of raw materials, quality control, and the entire production process, all the way to the processing of the final product, storage, and transportation to the stores.
Bon'Ap is a meal store chain that has grown to more than 45 stores since 2013, mainly in East and West Flanders. Bon'Ap offers a wide range of fresh meat, ready-to-eat meals, fresh soups, and even festive dishes. The stores are specifically designed to ease the burden on families by offering complete meals, perfect for any time of the day. The open kitchen in the store allows customers to see how the freshly made products are prepared.
Buurtslagers, a part of Meat&More, has been in existence for more than 30 years and is known for high-quality meat at competitive prices. With more than 140 locations in supermarkets such as Delhaize, Carrefour, and CoMarkt, Buurtslagers offers a wide range of meat, preparations, and ready-made meals. The chain remains true to its mission: good food, every day. Thanks to efficient distribution, prices remain low while quality stays high, giving customers valuable choices.