Sr Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance

What Application Development & Maintenance contributes to Cardinal Health

We have a career opening for a Sr Engineer of Rebates & Incentives for our Pharma IT division.   We are open to a remote worker in this role. We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer to support the SAP Pricing and Rebates and Incentives team.  This position will work with the different business teams on these areas to design and improve the SAP and Vistex supported solutions.

• Software Engineering is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and supporting applications, systems and IT products required to achieve the company's business objectives.
• Demonstrates knowledge of software development techniques and fluency in software languages and application programming interfaces.
• Demonstrates general understanding of hardware/software platforms including but not limited to operating systems, databases, application servers, web servers and integration technologies.
• Plans and executes system implementations that ensure success and minimize risk of system outages or other negative production impacts.
• Demonstrates conceptual knowledge of architecture standards and database and operating systems.
• Demonstrates problem solving ability that allows for effective and timely resolution of system issues including but not limited to production outages.
• Analyzes production system operations using tools such as monitoring, capacity analysis and outage root cause analysis to identify and drive change that ensures continuous improvement in system stability and performance.
• Demonstrates knowledge of software development, life cycle, modeling of business processes, application design patterns, business/functional documents. Estimates to high level business requirements and provide options analysis.

Responsibilities

• Execution and management of the SAP SD Pricing functionality for the Pharma business segment includes price procedure setup, condition types, routines, etc.
• Vistex experience in modules like Rebates and Incentives or Chargeback/Billback modules is also a plus.
• Support the integration with other application like EDI/Vendavo/etc. related to Pricing and RNI area.
• Provide leadership in planning/sequencing of end-to-end design workshops and support facilitation of workshops, leveraging knowledge of industry best practices and application of global SAP implementation experience.
• Guide complex fit/gap analysis, effort estimates and design decisions and validate fit/gap analysis and design decisions completed by less experienced team members; ensure deviations from “out of the box” functionality have sufficient business justification and positive value proposition
• Work on SAP Build Projects that are prioritize by business to either enhance the current platforms or create new SAP instances as required.
• Solution ownership of defects, enhancements, and new build project for RNI.
• Identifying synergies and optimization areas within the RNI domain and manage the execution.
• Understand the solution and be able to test it as required.
• Keeping up with emerging technologies and changes in business processes. 
• Maintain strategic relationships with all key stakeholders.
• Customer focused and deep understanding of business needs.
• Driving end-user satisfaction by using specific metrics.
• Provide leadership and direction to the teams during problem solving and crisis management.
• Provide solution leadership, organizing, and overseeing projects.
• Influencing internal and external clients to leverage out of the box solutions and reducing customizations.
• Help in completing effort estimates, preparing proposals, and collaborating with functional partners to deliver solutions for value-add business functions.
• Collaborating with other process tower leaders (OTC, PTP, RTR, and non-SAP systems) to ensure a cohesive solution without impacting cross functional and downstream processes or applications.
• Provide support in preparing and conducting prioritization meetings (for enhancements and defects) with the RNI functional partners.
• Ensure all critical RNI processes are properly monitored and alerted; and automate recurrent incidents.
• Closely follows the strategic direction set by the segment and executes on priority goals.
• Closely work with infrastructure teams to ensure a reliable and stable operations.
• Complies and enforce adoption of Solution Manager, Charm Management, HP ALM and other standard tools.
• Accountable for IT Controls, SOX compliance, and Audit findings on the SAP Pharma platform
• Responsible for the KPI's and BPM metrics that support current and future Pharma business units on SAP

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in related field preferred or equivalent work experience preferred
• 5+ years experience in related field preferred.
• Some functional and configuration knowledge in Vistex modules along with pricing functions with focus on Contracts, Agreements workbench, Supplier rebates, Customer rebates, Chargebacks and Compliance modules preferred 
• Experienced in all global SAP aspects, including defining & assigning Enterprise Structure, Master data, Sales Order processing and purchasing functions preferred.
• Interfaces: Should have hands on in interface in different system like SAP to SAP and SAP to Non-SAP preferred
• Experience in Vendavo application preferred
• Strong collaboration and leadership skills preferred.
• Strong business acumen in Pharmaceutical wholesale distribution space preferred.
• Strong experience in translating business requirements into technical capabilities and solutions preferred.
• Proficiency with ASAP (Accelerated SAP) Waterfall and Agile methodologies preferred.
• Strong experience in completing effort estimates, preparing proposals, and collaborating with our functional partners to deliver quality business solutions preferred.
• Experience providing direction to the teams in managing and troubleshoot complex interfaces involving multiple systems (e.g. SalesForce, Order Express (Web Order Entry), Manhattan, SAP MDG, IBM MDM, IDM, EDI, ECM, IronPort, PlanetPress, etc.) and middleware applications preferred.

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Manages department operations and supervises professional employees, frontline supervisors and/or business support staff
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
• Ensures employees operate within guidelines
• Decisions have a short-term impact on work processes, outcomes, and customers
• Interacts with subordinates, peer customers and suppliers at various management levels may interact with senior management
• Interactions normally involves resolution of issues related to operations and/or projects
• Gains consensus from various parties involved

Anticipated salary range: $121,600 - $173,700

Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 04/10/2025 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

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