SOLUTION OWNER - SOURCE TO PAY

Asahi Europe & International is part of Asahi Group Holdings, a global beer, spirits, soft drinks and food group with leading positions in European and Asia-Pacific markets, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japan. As of November 2020, Asahi Europe & International Group runs 19 production facilities in 8 countries across Europe, and is the custodian of some of the best beer brands in the world, including Asahi Super Dry, Pilsner Urquell, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Grolsch and Kozel. Within the Asahi Group, the remit of Asahi Europe and International is also to develop and manage all export markets globally, outside of Japan and Oceania. Covering 90 markets and with over 10,000 passionate colleagues on board, the business is well positioned to inspire people around the world to drink better.

Main purpose of the job

The Solution Owner has end to end accountability to deliver IS services and initiatives in her/his functional area. This includes business processes knowledge, managing relationship with super users, application vendor management and performance monitoring. With support of the application team, PMO, release management, application architecture and other IS functions is taking full ownership development of dedicated application portfolio under regional strategy.

Solution owner will focus on following key areas:

Understands business processes in his/her area and together with functional stakeholders drives synergies where relevant

Takes accountability for application development and projects in dedicated functional area

• Partners in business processes and IS solutions, highlighting opportunities to improve business performance
• Partners closely with corporate services (procurement, finance, etc) departments
• Demand gathering, classification, approval process, defines use cases
• Designs solutions within architecture guidelines and continuously evolve regional solution set
• Ensures proper project governance is in place
• Project Management
• Champion regional design and ensures proper integration and retirement of local solutions
• Facilitates testing of new functionalities, testing case creation and testing execution based on AEI testing standards
• Change management and super user training to ensure value realization
• Ensure constant link with service owner and drives project transition to application support
• Implementing small application changes

• Ensuring all application changes passed proper change control governance and are documented
• Project Management
• When required, ensure communication of maintenance releases is communicated to relevant parties
• Development and execution of application roadmaps/strategies

Works closely with application delivery to manage day-to-day support of application services ensuring they are being delivered in a timely and cost efficient way, while keeping regional governance, change control and security standards.

• Escalation point for specific services
• Subject matter expert for dedicated application portfolio

Develop and engage key/super user network across AEI to facilitate change management and end user training for business applications

Interested in Emerging Technologies like Agentic AI.

Accountabilities and deliverables

1. Takes full accountability on dedicated application portfolio (Development and Maintenance). Managing internal and external resources to maximize overall business value and ensure sustainability.
2. Manages AEI project initiatives and application changes and resources. Ensures active change management and value realization.
3. Manages and engages network of stakeholders and key/super users within geographies where appropriate.

Qualification criteria

• Master degree or equivalent in Technology or business related
• 5+ years of professional experience with exposure to IT processes methodologies and best practices
• International experience advantage (accountability for delivering in/to different countries)
• Business processes in functional area, IT Technologies, Requirements gathering and solution design, Solutions lifecycle, ERP and other systems deployment, analytical and problem solving skills, service oriented mind-set, project management experience
• Proficiency in English, Microsoft and MS Office
• Experience with the following subjects (no specialist role)
  • SAP ECC Materials Management – Procurement (f.i. Release strategies), and high level understanding of related modules (SD, FI, ….)
  • Vendor Invoice Management / OpenText
  • SAP Ariba
  • E-invoicing
  • SAP S/4 HANA

Diversity & Inclusion Statement 

We are committed to nurturing a workplace where we celebrate and respect difference, and support everyone to be true to who they are! At Asahi Europe and International, we believe you can SHINE AS YOU ARE, no matter your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We want to support you to be courageous in your individuality and to know that whoever you are and whatever your circumstances, you can belong with us without having to conform. 

Ready to Make an Impact? 

If you’re looking for a role where you can truly shape the future of in-house design and lead creative that stands out, we’d love to hear from you. 
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