SAP Systems Analyst at Medline Industries, Inc. in Northfield, Illinois

Job Description:

Job Summary
A great opportunity to work with a great company! Medline Industries has enjoyed DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH for 53 of the past 54 years! That's not a typo! And we've been again named to the Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces, and we're again on the list of Becker's Great Places to Work in Healthcare.

Medline Industries, Inc. is seeking a talented individual with knowledge of and experience working with enterprise SAP and Custom Applications using techno-functional skills. The Systems Analyst will work closely with our Sales, Marketing and Customer Service departments to continue building our quoting tool used by Medline's sales force. The individual must possess the willingness and capability to read and analyze our custom ABAP solutions at the source code level. They will participate in systems implementation and support including configuration, testing, documentation, and user support for all applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Work with a team of system analysts and business sponsors to gather business requirements for enhancements and new features for our sales rep quoting tool as well as our annualized smart wizard application.
• Turn those business requirements into user stories that can be refined, estimated and developed.
• Participate in backlog refinement where user stories are further groomed in preparation for sprint planning.
• Participate in sprint planning by explaining the enhancement or feature you are leading and gather all necessary estimates from the developers and architects for sprint capacity planning.
• Work with developers during the sprint to assist with data needed, testing and technical questions.
• Test features and bug fixes in our development and test environments.
• Deliver new features to the business in the form of a demo.
• Work with the team to migrate those changes to our production systems.
• Participate in all scrum ceremonies - daily stand up, retrospectives, backlog refinement and business sponsor demos.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a Systems Analyst role
• Minimum of 3 years of previous experience in a developer role using ABAP
• Experience in SAP customer master, material master and pricing related transactions for data analysis and testing
• Experience debugging functions and programs within SAP
• Basic knowledge of XI (PI) and Web Services, API Gateway
• Gather business requirements from business sponsors
• Convert business requirements into user stories
• Ability to write well written user stories for JAVA, UI and ABAP developers both near and offshore
• Liaison and work with developers and SAP configuration analysts to configure/develop solutions for SAP/Custom Applications
• Develop test plans and test scripts for quality delivery of new functions and features.
• Participate and provide direction in migration planning activities and deployment to production environments.
• Provide post-implementation support for implemented solutions during bi-monthly night time migrations.
• Ability to demo completed work to the business sponsors.
• Ability to work through sprint planning and solution planning with developers.
• Provide daily support for sales force and business users using quoting application
• Strong communication (verbal and written) skills (ability to articulate business solutions and at the same time have the ability to communicate with technical teams to develop and configure solutions)

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or equivalent work experience
• Experience with JAVA or other Web UI languages
• Be able to write basic SQL queries against database to run reports

About Medline:
Medline is the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies in the United States, providing more than 550,000 products that serve the entire continuum of care. Our innovative products and programs can be found in most hospitals, extended-care facilities, surgery centers, physician offices, home care dealers, home health agencies and retail outlets.

Founded in 1910, Medline has grown from a small manufacturer of aprons, surgical gowns and uniforms to a thriving $17 billion global enterprise because of our dedicated people, entrepreneurial spirit and honest values.

Again named one of the country's "Best and Brightest Companies to Work For," and once again named to Chicago Tribune's Top Workplaces, Medline has experienced fifty-plus years of consecutive annual growth, and is headquartered in Northfield, IL.