Assistant OneBASIS Landscape Manager

Job Title:Assistant OneBASIS Landscape Manager

Location: Bangalore

ABOUT UNILEVER:

Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life – giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you.

JOB PURPOSE

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world.  Unilever has four large and complex landscapes and several global applications. Furthermore, new functionality distributed amongst existing and new landscapes is added continuously and often implemented through global project initiatives. Therefore, the size and user basis, the complexity and the dependency between the system components are growing.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

The Assistant OneBASIS Landscape Manager has a critical role with high responsibility. His/her primary objective is to ensure resilience and business continuity and keep up the system’s performance as per business standards. Also, the person will be responsible to patch/upgrade systems to latest versions, so the environments are current in terms of supportability. 

• KEC – Ensure that the systems are kept in the latest versions, based on the baseline provided by engineering team. This requires meticulous planning and coordination with various teams and alignment with various key stakeholders. Work closely with ITM team to ensure that changes are planned and scheduled in respective windows and approvals are obtained well in advance. Plan multiple technical changes along with other scheduled changes to ensure that all the changes are fitted into the change window, executed and tested and released to users on time.  

• Technical know-how – individual should have an appetite to upgrade self in technology space. SAP Basis and Infrastructure knowledge is a must to have to perform this role, and you should update skills on a day to basis to adapt the changing technology around us.   

• Vendor Management – As part of day-to-day operations continuous involvement with vendor team is mandated. It is expected that person should be able to drive multiple initiatives with team along with the day-to-day operational activities. Some focus areas are incident management, change management and priority incident resolution. As an Assistant OneBASIS Landscape Manager, it is expected that you generate value from your vendor partners and ensure that you generate savings in terms of cost and efforts. 

• Stake holder Management – As an Assistant OneBASIS Landscape Manager, you are supposed to manage multiple flavours of systems and interact with resources in multiple geographies and regions. You will be aligned to service delivery managers of various regions and systems and need to ensure that you understand and manage business expectations along with them. You also will be responsible to run governance forums and update major stakeholders on the progress of the programs and operations on a timely basis.  

• In case of priority and business critical incidents you are expected to work through the period of incidents and ensure systems/performance are restored on time within the defined SLAs. In the aftermath of performance incidents and system outages, he/she provides input to the root cause analysis. For this purpose, works closely together with the other teams and vendors like SAP, Microsoft, IBM etc. 

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

SAP BASIS / DB Technical Management exposure

Team Lead Position in managing Landscape or Similar Programme 

Support roles in a mission critical system environment (24X7)   

Skills

SAP Basis / S4HANA Technology skills 

Flexibility and Agility to manage Proactive engagement 

Organisational Awareness 

Rigorous Approach/Attention to Detail 

Stakeholder & Vendor Management  

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

Please Note:

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