Job Description

About the Company

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Opella is a global consumer healthcare company, formerly known as Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, focused on over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and self-care products. It became an independent company in April 2025, backed by Sanofi and private equity firm CD&R.; Opella is currently the third-largest player globally in the OTC and vitamins & supplements market and operates in over 100 countries. The company has a workforce of around 11,000 employees and a strong portfolio of more than 100 well-known brands, including Allegra, Dulcolax, and Doliprane.

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About the Role

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The SAP Basis Expert will be responsible for managing the SAP platform and integrated tools, ensuring optimal performance and security while coordinating with various stakeholders on maintenance tasks and improvements.

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Responsibilities

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- Own Basis Business as Usual Activities for SAP platform and integrated tools.
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- Build technology roadmap for basis initiatives and improvement action plans to provide sustainable SAP platform.
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- Coordination and interactions with Infrastructure team (T-Systems) and any stakeholders of projects related with SAP Basis Maintenance tasks, like SAP upgrades, System Refreshes, and any other activities related with implementations which requires SAP Basis expertise.
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- Develop expertise on SAP technologies and procedure, review system performance statistics, perform configuration modifications and fixes.
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- Review complex problem situations and identify preventive measures / improvements to processes, procedures or tools, and implement these as required. Follow-up RCA (Root Cause Analysis) reports.
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- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of all operational security and emergency procedures.
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- Ensure a way to solve security issues in SAP Landscape.
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- Creation, planning and modification of cutover activities for Upgrades, Refreshes, and basis platform tasks.
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- Configure and define archiving objects in SAP system.
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- Maintenance of Central SAP Logon entries, certificates, SSO and Webdispatcher to be sure the users can connect to the environments securely.
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- Ensure documentation of the whole team is available and updated, updating every time is needed.
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- Coordinate Tasks to manage EWA or SAP recommendations to have the system updated and secure.
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- Analyse SAP Security Notes monthly and coordinate with development and Integration Team the implementations.
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- Develop expertise on administration for SAP HANA, S/4, BW4HANA 2.0, BO, BTP, PI/PO, BO Data Services, SAP Solution Manager, Cloud ALM.
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- SAP BTP Management, Cloud integration with ERP landscape, Security management, artifacts management, updates and deployments of SAP BTP Services.
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Qualifications

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- 10+ years work experience on SAP Basis, including similar technical platform management activities.
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Required Skills

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- Knowledgeable in SAP BASIS and platform management.
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- Knowledgeable in SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Cloud Connector.
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- General expertise in IT infrastructure technologies (SQL, Hana, Oracle DB, Servers, OS...) and Cloud services (AWS, Azure).
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- Deep Knowledge in SAP performance optimization and parametrization (Basis, Hana, SQL statements, etc.).
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- Significant experience with integration technologies (ALE/RFC/Idocs, PI/PO, WebServices, OData, Tibco, Informatica, ...).
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- Significant experience in IT service management and tools (ITIL, ServiceNow, Solution Manager).
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- Experience in Project Management, involving Agile and Digital methodologies.
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- Ability to manage multiple and parallel SAP platform lifecycles.
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- At ease with Microsoft Office tools, and in general with IS tools.
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- Can communicate solutions, ideas, suggestions to a variety of stakeholders effectively and comprehensibly.
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- Deep understanding of Application and technology Architecture.
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- Knowledge of technological trends.
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- Solid technology expertise in SAP technology and integrated tools.
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- Proven successful experience in SAP ERP production (S4/Hana), related landscape and lifecycle (migration, new module implementation...).
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- Conceptual and analytical thinking – ability to extract, analyze, and document complex business and technical requirements or strategies.
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Preferred Skills

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- Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
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- Demonstrated conflict resolution & problem-solving skills in a global environment.
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- Strong appetite to learn and discover, entrepreneur mindset.
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- Adaptable and open to change.
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- Team player, service-oriented.
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- Analytical and synthetic, able to formalize solutions, positive writing skills.
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- Strong oral and written communication skills with leadership attitude, autonomy and results driven.
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- Role model our 4 values: teamwork, integrity, respect, courage.
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📌 SAP Basis Expert (Hyderabad)
🏢 Opella
📍 Hyderabad