SAP SD Consultant

Who we are and what we do

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.

We're made up of 11 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.

Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Orion, which won Publisher of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards; Little, Brown; John Murray Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Headline; Quercus; Octopus, and Bookouture. They publish fiction and non-fiction in digital, audio and print format, from the world's best and most diverse authors, including Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O'Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling, Colson Whitehead, and Malala Yousafzai. Hachette Children's Group publishes a wide and vibrant range of books for children across all age ranges, while Hachette Learning is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools.

Hachette UK is part of Hachette Livre, the world's third-largest trade and educational publisher. As well as our headquarters in Carmelite House, London, and our state-of-the-art book distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, we have recently opened five new offices in Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The UK region also includes offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, the Caribbean, and Ireland.

It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and TV are the foundation of the UK's creative industries.

What you'll be doing

Senior SAP SD Consultant with significant experience. Multiple full life cycle SAP projects (rollouts and enhancements).

Experience working from requirements gathering, design, build, UAT, and integrated tests to hypercare.

- Great ability to translate business scenarios into SAP solutions and help customers with digital transformation journey.

- Significant experience in SD/MM as a user,

- Experience as a business consultant in requirements gathering and solution definition

- Configuration and test experience necessary to both be able to complete own items and take on responsibilities currently with IT TEAM

- Responsibility for SAP Support, enhancements and implementation projects as required. (Project/role mapping will be dependent on experience)

• ensuring all incidents be resolved within the agreed SLA
• Troubleshooting incident and problem resolution, maintaining the highest levels of customer satisfaction possible
• Preventative maintenance tasks to ensure IT systems are operational and secure and to prevent future incidents

A team player who loves to be hands-on, especially in an SAP ERP environment.

Who we are looking for

• Experience as SAP Consultant in projects such as greenfield implementation, rollouts,
• global templates, enhancements, BAU support and SAP version Upgrades. Worked in
• projects overseas with multicultural teams, including on-shore/off-shore teams.
• Strong experience with data migration (master and transactional) using LSMW and
• loading programs. Knowledge of LTMC data load for S/4 HANA.
• Hands-on experience with SAP SD customising: Organisational Structure, sales
• documents, contracts, billing types, returns, outputs, pricing (very strong), texts,
• accounting, item categories, schedule lines, ATP, partner determination, batch
• determination, intercompany, credit management, routes, deliveries, EDI, copy control
• and variant configuration. BAPI, job management, user-exits debug, test function
• modules. RICEF developments and design of functional specifications. Integration with
• FI,CO,QM,PP,MM and BW and Salesforce.
• Technical Strengths: ABAP Debug, use of User-Exits, function modules, formulas,
• enhancements points, interfaces design, BAPI search and usage, EDI, IDOCs.
• Knowledge and hands-on customizing of several sales scenarios: sales from stock,
• make-to-order, third-party sales, free of charge, service sales, pro-formas, returns,
• future deliveries, outline agreements, consignments, intercompany sales, etc.

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension schemes
• Rent deposit loans
• 2 community days per year
• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Wide-ranging training library
• Development programmes (including mentoring)
• Up to 70% off book purchases
• A charity bookshelf
• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!

This role can be based at our London or Didcott office, with a blend of in-office and homeworking.

Our commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org