Specialist, SAP Functional Team – SAP Ariba / Vendor Master

Job Description

Specialist, SAP Functional Team – SAP Ariba / Vendor Master

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview

We are hiring an Ariba / Vendor Master Specialist to join our Source to Settle (StS) team in an internal, permanent position. You will be supporting new company code/plant deployments and multi market support. This is a hands-on role combining SAP configuration, solution design, production support, testing, documentation and end user enablement. You will work closely with the Merger and Acquisition Value Team, Business Development Value Team, Finance, Tax, Compliance, Master Data and IT teams, and with external vendors as needed.

What will you do in this role:

• Designing and shaping the global Ariba and MDG solution in line with M&A objectives and StS strategy.
• Configuring and maintaining SAP functionality in Ariba, MDG or S/4HANA and supporting different integrations or interfaces.
• Delivering enhancements, plant rollouts and master data related projects end to end: produce functional specs, coordinate builds, testing, cutover and post go live support with internal teams and vendors.
• Providing 2nd/3rd line production support: investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, apply fixes and restore service with minimal business impact.
• Ensuring master data processes and solutions meet regulatory, tax, sustainability and quality requirements for the business and regulated environments.
• Define/execute functional and integration tests, support UAT, and create user guides and knowledge transfer documents.
• Engaging stakeholders and managing vendor relationships: gather requirements, align expectations and oversee vendor deliverables and timelines.
• Supporting change and release management using JIRA and ServiceNow (SNOW) or similar ITSM tools; contribute to continuous improvement and master data governance.

What should you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, IT, Finance, Accounting or related field.
• 6+ years strong technical experience in SAP ECC, Sap Ariba and Sap MDG; SAP ECC or S/4HANA configuration experience required.
• Integration experience with external master data systems.
• Proven experience producing functional specs, configuration guides, and delivering enhancements or projects.
• Strong testing and production support skills (integration/regression testing, UAT, root cause analysis).
• Familiar with JIRA and ServiceNow (SNOW).
• Excellent English verbal and written communication; able to manage multiple priorities and interact with senior stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating with vendors and Application Maintenance/support teams.

Nice to Have

• xRay (or equivalent) testing experience and familiarity with HP/ALM.
• Healthcare or pharmaceutical (life sciences) industry experience.
• Experience with Agile methodology and tools.

Required Skills:

Accountability, Agile Methodology, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Application, Knowledge Transfer, Life Science, Production Support, SAP Ariba, SAP Configuration, SAP MM Material Management, SAP HANA Administration, SAP MDG Master Data Governance, SAP S/4HANA, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Stakeholder Relationship Management, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are:

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for lives, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for:

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Required Skills:

Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, System Integration, Testing

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

04/11/2026

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