Company Description

As a global key player in yeasts and fermentation, Lesaffre designs, manufactures and markets innovative solutions for Baking, Food taste & pleasure, Health care and Biotechnology.

Family group born in northern France in 1853, now a multi-national and a multicultural company, Lesaffre is committed to working with confidence to better nourish and protect the planet.

In close collaboration with its clients and partners, Lesaffre employs 11 000 people in more than 50 countries.

Lesaffre achieves a turnover of 3 billion euros.

Job Description

In order to reinforce our BI & Data Team, we are looking for our new SAP Data Engineer. Reporting to our SAP BI Manager, you will integrate the new BI Center of Excellence. You will work in close cooperation with corporate BI project managers, Data analysts, Data engineers, as well as with other Data, Digital and Tech teams (SAP, Solutions, Infrastructure, Security).

In a very diverse environment, your main activities will be to:

Drive SAP S/4HANA data extraction strategy to SAP Datasphere, in a multi-system environment, mainly using mainly standard SAP extractors (CDS views). This includes connectivity activities, optimizing and rationalizing SAP extractions at Group level. BW Bridge scenario is also part the scenario, for the short term.

Collaborate with other internal Data stakeholders by providing relevant solutions for their data use cases.  It also includes guidance definition and enforcement about BI usage within the Group.

Implement the relevant solution, by modelizing in Datasphere, replicating to other data platform, following the best practices, that you contribute to define.

To do so, the SAP Data engineer will have to propose/implement/manage projects key-success factors, with a pragmatic approach, and a customer satisfaction mindset:

• Planning (taking into consideration business needs and operational constraints)
• Priorities (to balance short/medium/long term actions, as well as urgent/important topics)
• Resources (internal and external teams availabilities management, functional and technical interactions and dependencies)
• Communications (to management, project teams, internal customers, to report key elements, and foster adoption)
• Documentations (about project status report, focused on: to do list, done list, decisions to be made, risks to be managed … procedures, memo to ease successful project deliveries)
• Training ensuring training of internal customers
• Operations monitoring (subcontracted to our SAP BI hosting partner);
• Support (to answer business questions, and fix issues when need be)

Key competencies

• Strong expertise in SAP table architecture including CDS views
• Strong data modeling skills
• Mastering ETL processes, ideally experience with SAP Datasphere
• You have a professionnal English
• You are familiar with international environments 
• Knowledge of data governance best practices, ensuring compliance and data reliability

Nice to have

• Experience with Snowflake
• Experience in datavizualization tools, SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI.

Additional Information

What can Lesaffre offer you:

• We are a successful family-owned company with long-standing history where people truly matter.
• We promote a sense of fulfilment with a genuine mission: nourish and protect the planet.
• You will experience intellectual challenges within a multi-expertise network.

At Lesaffre, diversity is a strength that enriches our culture and our teams. We are committed to offering you a work environment where you can thrive, regardless of your background, gender, age or abilities. We encourage all applications, as we believe that diverse perspectives strengthen our ability to innovate and meet the challenges of tomorrow.