Principal IT Business Analyst - SAP IBP

Overview

Principal IT Business Analyst for SAP IBP at MiniMed's Global Diabetes Capability Center in Pune, partnering with implementation vendors and supporting SAP IBP applications, integrations, enhancements and releases.

What you'll do

• Partner closely with implementation vendors and system integrators during SAP IBP deployment activities.
• Contribute to solution discussions, design reviews, functional validation, and deployment planning.
• Provide internal IT leadership and governance for design, configuration, master data, integrations, and enhancements across SAP IBP workstreams.
• Ensure SAP IBP solutions align with enterprise architecture standards and long-term business objectives.
• Be accountable for detailed document requirements, requirement traceability, and translation into functional requirements.
• Support business requirement clarification and ensure alignment with enterprise standards and operational needs.
• Participate in fit-gap sessions, testing activities, defect triage, and deployment readiness reviews.
• Ensure successful knowledge transfer from implementation partners to internal support teams.
• Serve as a key IT support lead for SAP IBP applications and related integrations.
• Support incident management, root cause analysis, defect resolution coordination, and issue prioritization.
• Partner with business users and support teams to troubleshoot planning, integration, and data-related issues.
• Monitor application stability, integration performance, and operational health of SAP IBP services.
• Coordinate support activities across internal IT teams, SAP partners, and third-party providers.
• Participate in production support processes including incident management, service requests, problem management, defect tracking, and support governance.
• Drive small enhancement initiatives and continuous improvement activities across SAP IBP planning capabilities.
• Evaluate opportunities to optimize planning processes, reporting, integrations, and user experience.
• Support backlog management and prioritization of enhancement requests.
• Coordinate testing and validation activities for system changes and releases.
• Support change management and training activities related to enhancements and process updates.
• Support SAP IBP quarterly release planning, regression testing, and impact assessments.
• Coordinate upgrade testing activities with business and IT stakeholders.
• Assess impact of SAP roadmap changes, new functionality, and integration updates.
• Support validation and documentation activities required for regulated environments where applicable.
• Assist in development and execution of SIT/UAT testing strategies.
• Support integration activities between SAP IBP and SAP S/4HANA environments.
• Collaborate with integration and middleware teams supporting SAP Cloud Integration (CI/CPI), SAP BTP RTI/SDI frameworks, and APIs and enterprise integrations.
• Help ensure data quality, integration reliability, and process continuity across planning systems.
• Assist with troubleshooting complex integration and master data issues.
• Partner with supply chain, manufacturing, planning, and business process teams globally.
• Act as a trusted advisor and functional liaison between business stakeholders and IT delivery teams.
• Support user adoption, operational readiness, and ongoing business engagement activities.
• Contribute to governance meetings, operational reviews, and roadmap planning discussions.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field.
• 10+ years of SAP supply chain planning experience.
• Strong hands-on experience supporting SAP IBP environments including Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Inventory Optimization.
• Experience supporting large-scale SAP transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of supply chain planning processes including demand forecasting, supply planning, inventory optimization, and S&OP / Integrated Business Planning.
• Experience supporting SAP IBP integrations with SAP S/4HANA.
• Hands-on experience with SAP Cloud Integration (CI/CPI) and SAP BTP enterprise integration frameworks.
• Experience supporting application operations, incident management, enhancements, and release activities.
• Experience coordinating testing activities including SIT and UAT.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with implementation partners and cross-functional global teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in Medical Device, MedTech, Life Sciences, or regulated manufacturing industries.
• Experience supporting greenfield SAP transformation programs.
• SAP IBP certification(s).
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
• Familiarity with Agile and IT service management processes.
• Experience working within validated or regulated application environments.

Details

• Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India.