General Mills

Position Title

Senior Technical Engineer

Function/Group

Digital and Technology

Location

Mumbai

Shift Timing

General

Role Reports to

Manager, SAP Development

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

ABOUT GENERAL MILLS

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

The Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile@scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.

The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the provided Link

Purpose of the role

The Digital and Technology team of General Mills India Centre is looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual to contribute to the Global Digital Transformation initiative at General Mills in capacity of a Sr. Technical Engineer.

The SAP Sr. Technical Engineer is responsible for the design and delivery of solutions across the GMI ecosystem, focusing on the implementation of SAP and integration with applications across the system landscape.

Individual will be a highly motivated thinker, collaborator to influence stakeholders in transforming the SAP Development processes and development practices.

The role also requires working as individual contributor to

• Energizes others to go the extra mile
• Sets and example of effective self-development
• Challenge self and others to identify creative approaches to solution
• Focus time and energy on most important priorities
• Proactively develop solution to mitigate the risk & maximize the opportunities
• Create the atmosphere of trust in work group.
• Model and insist of multi-perspective approach on all projects & customer interaction
• Challenge and question with courage
• Demonstrate the judgment to maintain systems & processes that are working well
• Holds self & other accountable for getting the job done with excellence
• Encourage his/her group to continuously expand their knowledge base

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• This role is an Individual Contributor role for SAP Development team responsible for custom developments.
• Individual should be able to provide technical consultation to the functional team and derive the technical solution keeping in mind the end-to-end business process, the scalability and sustainability of the change and the performance factors.
• The individual should be able estimate, plan and break the large development work into smaller work deliverables and delegate the same to the junior team members and ensure the effective delivery of the same.
• The Individual should have a deep technical understanding on Core ABAP, PI, ALE/IDOC, Workflow, Layouts, UI/UX etc.
• The individual should have deep functional understanding on all the SAP modules. (MM, SD, FI, CRM, TM, APO etc.)
• The individual should be able to mentor and guide team members in technical, functional and process related areas.
• They should have an experimental mindset and should look out for the latest from SAP and find feasibility of GM adaptation.
• The individual should also be proficient the latest offerings of SAP (ABAP on Hana, S4 Hana, C4 Hana, Fiori etc.)
• The Individual should be able to strategize and collaboratively implement integrated Process improvements across teams.
• The Individual should drive SAP best practices within the team (Code Review, DDIC & Change Control) and coach and onboard the stewards for the monitoring and implementation on the same.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education – Full time graduation from an accredited university
• Strong technical and functional knowledge (Core ABAP, MM, FI, SD, CRM, APO, TM).
• Strong knowledge and work experience in Future skills (ABAP on HANA, S4 HANA, C4 HANA & UI5/Fiori)
• Have worked on in lead roles in larger implementation projects.
• Understand more broadly how their applications/technologies integrate with others outside of their own work group
• Have built credibility based on their own track record and experiences within own work/customer group (and starting to build outside of that)
• Leveraged as a go-to resource in area and regularly mentors/coach others in their area of expertise
• Understand business value proposition and incorporate into own work
• Actively engage in broad (external/internal) IT Department initiatives, such as technical forums, communities of practice, recruiting or affinity group
• Worked on developing and implementing process improvements and SAP best practices across teams.
• Skill proficiency expectations

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 9 years, 11 preferred – SAP Development experience
• Cross Functional Development experience on Global SAP projects.
• Lead ABAP team on large SAP projects
• Application Design/Integration Development with SAP Products.
• Led Process improvement/CI initiatives