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At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you’ll do
You are a developer with a passion for mathematical optimization in a modern cloud world? You want to have a direct and positive impact on the world’s most critical supply chains? You are looking for your next challenge?

Companies need a high degree of flexibility and adaptability to react to supply chain disruption and resilience. SAP Supply chain planning and optimization solutions take this need into account. With SAP's leadership, these intelligent planning solutions are being implemented in leading industrial companies worldwide, revolutionizing business processes to become more efficient, sustainable, resilient, and environmentally friendly.

We are looking for a Developer (Associate) (f/m/d) in the Supply Chain Optimizer team within the SCM Optimization & Data Science unit. As such you will work in our cross-located product engineering team (Walldorf, Munich, Montreal).

In your role as a Developer (Associate), you work closely with a cross-functional and cross-located team ensuring high quality of the delivered supply chain planning procedures. You have the opportunity to:

• Support the conception and development of future supply chain planning solutions on modern cloud architecture
• Design, implement, test, and maintain functionality and planning algorithms
• Use agile methodologies such as test-driven development and pair programming to ensure superior product quality
• Be a vital contributor to the full development cycle by discovering requirements together with our (internal) customers and partners in industry

Come join us in reshaping the future of Optimization at SAP.

What you bring

• Bachelor or master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field
• First working experience in software development is a plus
• Enthusiasm for programming and practical experience in it
• Interest in supply chain, mathematical optimization and related business processes
• Background in operations research is beneficial
• A creative, analytical, and solution-oriented mind-set
• Motivation and result driven attitude with strong customer focus
• Good teamwork and communication skills
• Fluent in verbal and written English and German

Meet your team
Our team develops modern planning solutions by using optimization and artificial intelligence methods that industrial companies worldwide use to plan and optimize their business.
The planning procedures are characterized by high scalability concerning the volume to be planned (procedure efficiency), broad functionality and seamless integrations into SAP applications. The solution will natively exploit SAP’s state-of-the-art capabilities in SAP Cloud Platform deployed on Kubernetes.

You can expect a quick onboarding and learning experience as well as a mentorship to ensure, that you get up-to-speed as-soon-as-possible. Within the team we count on self-motivation, continuous learning and helping each other and at the same time each can work on their own pace, which gives them flexibility to balance their professional and personal life.

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Requisition ID: 425583 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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