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• Designs business processes and innovation change initiatives in partnership with the relevant local, global and/or central business departments with great autonomy.
• Facilitates delivery of IT services to process partners in assigned area of responsibility.
• Ensures strategic alignment with BMW Group core IT processes.
• Establishes strong partnerships with both business and IT process partners which culminates into the delivery of sustainable solutions to complex problems.
• Communicates with BMW Colleagues continuously through direct communications and project results (both small and large).
• Negotiates agreements with business and support functions in assigned area of responsibility.
• Seeks to take initiative and proactively pursue duties within assigned space.
• Mentors other resources on tasks and responsibilities. Develops and builds application tables, panels, programs, and reports for ERP (SAP) based systems and projects in assigned area of responsibility.
• Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues in assigned area of responsibility.
• Operates at the highest technical level of all phases of ERP/SAP client/server enterprise application activities.
• Analyzes existing and future planned initiatives, short, mid, and long- term planning with prioritization of requirements based on local and BMW Group strategy Prepares, facilitates, and sustains the local business prioritization process and the input to the global prioritization process.
• Ensures effective systems change control, problem management, and incident management; thereby reducing risk, ensuring quality, and business continuity.
• Ensures the integrity, reliability, and reproduction of our internally and externally developed software products.
• Ensures the IT security and compliance of both planned systems as well as existing systems under operational control in assigned area.
• Develops and manages project plans to include defining deliverables, budget adherence, key milestones and critical paths.
• Reports and manages risks as well as progress of Lead Sagas, Sagas, Epics and User Stories in assigned area of responsibility.
• Manages efforts to design, develop, train, and deploy systems and procedures for assigned area of responsibility.
• Ensures target achievement is consistently attained in assigned area.
• Ensures that all aspects of information protection, data, and systems security pertaining to area of responsibility adhere to BMW Group Policies and architectures.
• Promotes the use of standard processes and solutions within assigned area of responsibility.
• Promotes and facilitates the use of the Agile methodology for all initiatives and tasks in assigned area of responsibility.
• Manages the software integration, external interface development, and technical documentation in assigned area of responsibility.
• May code individual modules and complex functions in ERP (SAP) systems and applications.
• Understands and models VPS (Value Added Production System) Principles and concepts of Standard Work and Problem Solving.
• Adheres to 5S and Safety Standards and Principles.
• Performs other duties assigned by management.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering or the equivalent of 4 years of experience in the management of information technology application development, maintenance and support.
• 5+ years of demonstrated success in IT or equivalent success in an IT related function.
• 5+ years of experience planning, analyzing, designing, developing, testing, implementing, operating, documenting and training of IT applications.
• 5+ years of experience in implementing/configuring IT systems.
• 5+ years of experience working in a customer service orientated environment.
• 5+ years of experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• 2+ years writing software for enterprise ERP systems in Java/ABAP. N/A E) Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
• 5+ years knowledge of programming languages - C/ C++, Python, JAVA, HTML, JSP, J2EE, ABAP, SAPUI5/Fiori, SQL, Oracle, UNIX/LINUX (preferred).

BMW Manufacturing Company is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of BMW MC to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all qualified persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.