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ComputerWeekly.com, July 27, 2010 (Online)
Pharmaceuticals company Bayer has signed a five-year global enterprise agreement with SAP to support the company’s IT strategy to standardize globally on the SAP ERP package. Through its implementation of SAP Bayer is hoping to increase market share and profitability in an environment of global supply chains and a high degree of international competitive pressure. The software will also be used to help the company reduce operational costs by means of a scalable and efficient software landscape across the business. The global enterprise agreement includes software, maintenance and strategic consulting services as well as on-site support through the SAP MaxAttention support option. Through the life the contract Bayer will be able to call on SAP software and services as needed to support its implementation strategy. Bayer has partnered with SAP since 1984. ComputerWeekly writes that as part of a developer partnership agreement in 2000, SAP became Bayer’s most important strategic software partner, according to SAP.
User Experience Designer-Mobile
For personal consideration contact: kevin.daprile@sap.com
PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
Taking the design of SAP’s Enterprise Applications to the next
level of design excellence is the core business of the SAP User Experience Group. Our mission is to provide a world-class user experience for end users of SAP business applications. The objective of this position is to work in close collaboration with product management and development to design and develop industry leading applications for mobile devices such as
BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, iPad, etc. The user experience designer works within a team to translate business requirements into effective UI design. He/she designs the next generation user experience for SAP based on user research, human-factor principles, platform style guides, market and sales drivers, business requirements, and technical requirements. He/she identifies and drives opportunities to improve aspects of the software-development process related to the user interface, including streamlining and
automation. Along with fellow members of the User-Experience team, the user interface designer has a key role in assuring best-quality and best-practice user interface design throughout the product lifecycle. SAP is the global market leader for business software and thus contributes a considerable part of the world’s economic power grid. At SAP you get your chance to put your ideas into action with maximum impact.
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
- Involvement in user research activities, including participatory design sessions.
- Interpreting business requirements into effective UI specifications.
- Definition, creation, production and review of user interface and usability requirements.
- Performing and reporting on task analyses.
- Creating conceptual design models.
- Creating interaction models and task flows.
- Defining information organization and screen layouts.
- Creating and demonstrating iterative prototypes (hi and low fidelity).
- Involvement in design validation activities and recommendations reporting.
- Communicating effectively within UX- and product management/ development community.
- Contributing to project planning and infrastructure initiatives
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Graduate level training in: Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Industrial Design or
other related disciplines.
- Strong online or electronic portfolio which demonstrates expert-level proficiency in visual and
interactive design for business and/or consumer audiences.
- Experience in major aspects of product definition: developing user profiles, use scenarios,
task flows, prototypes, and information architecture.
- Knowledge of current and upcoming desktop and cloud-based technologies.
- Knowledge of major mobile platforms such as iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Experience with developing user profiles, use scenarios, task flows, prototypes and
information hierarchies.
- Must have experience with two or more formal UI evaluation and requirements methods.
- Design ideation/conceptualization processes, task analyses, field studies, formal UI/UE
- Design reviews, standards and guidelines definition, and design validation testing
- Demonstrated ability to learn and design for complex business tasks and supporting
technologies.
- Must be a solid team player with good writing, presentation and time management skills
- Must be able to work effectively with teams to prioritize UI issues and review the results of
user research. Experience with Mobile design
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