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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.

Architecture Advisor

Location: Muscat, Oman or Doha, Qatar

Language: Fluent English, Arabic considered a plus.

What you'll do:

The Customer Advisory Architecture Advisor (AA) works closely with SAP’s Sales organization and the Partner ecosystem to define the account strategy. AAs are responsible for bridging the gap between the customer’s business strategy and relevant solutions through crafting the to-be business and solution architectures and designing a transformation roadmap at the enterprise level to facilitate the customer’s adoption of Cloud-based architectures. They are trusted advisors for the customer to achieve their desired to-be SAP-based Enterprise Architecture.

As an Architecture Advisor (AA), you will focus on the following key areas:

Account Planning & Architecture Management Responsibilities

• Support the assessment of current customer solutions from SAP and potential areas of opportunity for faster solution adoption & consumption, as well as footprint expansion.
• Engage with customers to support sales cycles throughout the Customer Value Journey as an integral member of the SAP account team.
• Drive business and IT architecture definitions to ensure consistency, cooperation, and alignment with SAP organizations, the customer, and partners.
• Provide a linkage from the customer to SAP product development leadership.

Creating an SAP Architecture Vision for the Customer

• Support building customer demand through appropriate thought leadership positioning.
• Understand customer’s business process map and business model with industry reference architecture focus.
• Understand customer’s current enterprise landscape and future needs.
Drive the positioning of standard cloud architectures (plug & play) leveraging standard cloud solutions.

Building Key Customer Architecture Deliverables: Business & Solution Architecture, Target State, Transformation Roadmap

• Drive business architecture and capability mapping to solution design.
• Ensure IT feasibility of the business capabilities mapping to SAP solution architecture.
• Support customer cloud transformation roadmap definition (business and application focus).
• Drive customer cloud/hybrid transformation roadmap definition (standard cloud application and technology focus).

Being a Trusted Architecture Advisor for the Customer

• Align living roadmap with current adoption/solution consumption.
• Support living roadmap governance & adaptation based on evolution of customer needs and SAP solutions.
• Drive solution expansion by highlighting value & linkages to the broader SAP Portfolio

What you bring:

• Considerable experience with software/IT organizations as an IT Architecture or Enterprise Architecture Advisor and/or specific expertise with software solutions through Solution Management, Sales, Presales, Adoption/Consumption, Consulting or Business Development, demonstrating successful outcomes over multiple years.
• Represent SAP as the trusted advisor within SAP and/or the market.
• Deep knowledge of Cloud, Hosted Services, SaaS/ PaaS models and Cloud-based commerce/ business networks.
• Proven professional networks in the market to drive pipeline and revenue growth for SAP.
• Proven track record of success in the selected industry area, if required.
• Proven leadership and project management experience.
• Proven experience of driving tangible outcomes in Enterprise Architecture for customers.
• Fluency in English; any other language is an asset.
• Fluency in Arabic is desirable.
• Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required, MBA or equivalent degree required from accredited university preferred.
• Togaf or SAPIEA-10 certifications and Experience in using EAM tools is an added value for candidates

Meet your team:

At the core of our mission, the Architecture Advisor team is dedicated to guiding our customers through their cloud business transformation journey. Our experts work collaboratively to deliver tailored, consistent value to every customer, ensuring they achieve the best results from their cloud investments.

We are passionate about enhancing the end-to-end customer experience. By focusing on improving the adoption and consumption of SAP’s products and services, we help customers unlock the full potential of their technology solutions.

What sets our team apart is our deep understanding of each customer’s unique industry landscape. By speaking our customers' language, we build stronger foundations of trust and credibility. This allows us to engage with them in more meaningful ways, addressing industry-specific needs, challenges, and opportunities. The better we understand our customers, the easier it becomes to foster lasting relationships that drive real business transformation.

Whether helping customers overcome obstacles or identifying new growth avenues, the Architecture Advisor team is committed to delivering value every step of the way.

Skills you’ll use:

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: 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.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 398008 | Work Area: Presales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

About Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.

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We help the world run better

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.

Do you love to work with people in a very dynamic environment? Do you like to be challenged by newest applications? Do you want to see global players and their unique business? Then this offer fits perfectly to you. We focus with 100% commitment on engaging with and delivering for our customers to make them successful. For us, the customer comes first.

Center of Expertise EMEA support our Premium Engagement customers in their digital transformation. We sustain the adoption of SAP software and ensure that our customers can successfully plan, implement, integrate and operate their software, including continuous improvement, quality management, problem solving and knowledge transfer.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

A key competency of this role is the ability to translate SAP customers’ business problems and ambitions into practical tactical and strategic roadmaps charting the deployment of digital solutions SAP offers.

• Be the key SAP architect for our global customers when it comes to Enterprise Architecture Transformation Planning following proven methodologies.
• Act as advisor to the customer with a broad application, Line of Business (LoB) or industry understanding.
• Review the as-is situation and goals of a customer holistically (e.g. industry, LoB), and translate them into an appropriate business-driven IT-roadmap and architecture design based on SAP’s offerings and SAP’s cloud strategy, with a clear focus on customer success.
• Challenge existing solutions / approaches / concepts, to generate a state-of-the-art and future-ready outcome.
• Identify clear value drivers and develop compelling outcome-based value propositions to guide customer’s decision-making.
• Operationalize the customers’ business strategies, identify relevant components, approaches, input, etc. to derive the best possible solution and help our customers to leverage the differentiating benefits of our cloud solutions.
• Clarify expectations from various stakeholders, especially in very difficult cases; create a solution which integrates diverse points of view and serves as a starting point for future SAP business. Collaborate with customers, partners and SAP teams for the best possible implementation.
• Take a step back if required and re-define the concepts so that a constant improvement is guaranteed (agility in solution design).
• Drive knowledge management and innovation activities based on this experience with customers. Document successful approaches, tools etc. and makes them available at SAP internally.
• Support our customers on their transformation to SAP S/4HANA / Intelligent Enterprise.
• Fully understand and leverage the capabilities of SAPs technology platform(s).
• Take the lead of delivery of complex remote and onsite services together with our experts for global customers with focus on system optimization, conceptual planning and road mapping as well as empowering the customers with newest best practice knowledge.
• Collaborate and co-innovate with the respective development teams.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Required skills

• Very strong knowledge with a proven projects record in any of the following areas where you acted as a team lead or solution architect:
  • Finance
  • Or Logistics (e.g. MM, EWM, TM)
  • Or Digital Supply Chain (e.g. PP, QM, PM)
  • Or Supply Chain Planning (e.g. APO, IBP, PPDS)
  • Or other SAP solution areas

• Good knowledge of SAP cloud solutions and products roadmap (S/4HANA or Digital Supply Chain as an example)
• Overall SAP Corporate Strategy and SAP Product Strategy Knowledge
• Knowledge of the latest SAP Strategy and its related pillars including the capability to discuss this with the customer
• SAP Products and Methods Knowledge:
  • Advanced knowledge of SAP Product Portfolio (on premise and cloud solutions, S/4HANA)
  • Industry Solutions (in related industry area) - Leverage industry and SAP reference architectures
• Certification / competence in one or more of the following is highly desirable:
  • S/4HANA Functional Modules as mentioned above.
  • Project Management (e.g., SAP Activate, PMI or SAP internal certification)
  • SAP Professional Architect
  • TOGAF
  • Signavio
  • Lean-IX
• Ability to work under pressure, in critical situations and under tight deadlines
• Ability to deliver clear, concise presentations and present complex information in a clear and precise manner
• Willingness and ability to travel to customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Preferred skills

• Experience in working with cross-cultural teams or individuals
• Experience in working with cross-functional teams

WORK EXPERIENCE

• University degree in computer science, business information technology, mathematics, physics, engineering or equivalent
• At least 8-10 years of SAP projects with responsibility for Solution Architecture or ideally Enterprise Architecture experience

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: 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.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 415273 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

We help the world run better

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.

Do you like to help others? Hint – you actively listen to connect people with solutions

Do you like telling stories? Hint – from beginning to the end, people actively listen to you

Do have a creative side? Hint – bringing a story visually to life is exciting for you

Do you like working on a team? Hint – you offer a point of view and collaborate well in a group

Do you wish you had more influence? Hint – you have domain expertise in finance and would love to show it off

If you relate to the above questions, you just might have a future as part of Presales Solution Advisory organization!

In Solution Advisory, we listen and get to know a customer’s business. We learn what needs to change and why. We help business leaders ideate and think through what is possible. We help them envision how technology and automation could support their winning strategy. We connect their vision and needs to a solution designed with SAP Cloud applications and technologies.

That’s where YOU come in!

The Team

We foster a supportive team environment and work as integral members of SAP account teams which serve our customers. You would be joining one of the most elite presales teams in Middle East North . You will work with some of the most innovative technologies in the industry. You will be empowered and supported to do what is right for our customers while expressing your creativity and ingenuity. Our Solution Advisors shine doing what they love to do – help people, tell stories and connect opportunity to a solution…with PASSION!

The Role

The primary role of the Finance Solution Advisor would be to focus on presenting the value of SAP Finance and Risk Management portfolio. This Solution Advisor would possess advanced/expert-level knowledge of Finance Operations, Financial Planning & Analytics, Accounting & Financial Close, Treasury & Working Capital Management, This advisor would also be able to understand the deep integration and financial experience. In this role, the advisor will be asked to learn Best Run Finance to help position the intelligent enterprise and showcase the value to both the C Suite and Office the CFO.

The Solution Advisor interacts with prospective customers through executive meetings, discovery conversations, solution demonstrations, executive presentations, and follow-up discussions. The primary role of the Solution Advisor during an active sales cycle is to gain acceptance from the customer that the SAP solution can solve the customer’s problem and is the right choice over the other competitive offerings. During these cycles they may also take on the role of a Solution/Deal Captain. In addition to deal support, a Presales Senior Specialist collaborates with Sales and Industry Value Engineering teams to plan and execute business development strategies using Design Thinking tools and techniques.

The Solution Advisor is knowledgeable in finance business processes and adoption of new technologies. Additional value would be derived from having experience with cloud implementation best practice

As a specialist in the Finance and Risk Line of Business space, you will focus on one or more of the following areas:

DEAL SUPPORT:

• Compose and deliver superior sales presentations covering SAP and partner software solutions to prospective customer audiences. The presentations must articulate the sales message, differentiate SAP, and leave a strong and positive impression to audiences which can include senior company executives.
• Prepare and deliver value-based software demonstrations/presentations in support of sales cycles. Preparation includes personalization of materials to ensure delivery of a simple, appealing and compelling customer presentation.
• In advance of a demonstration or key presentation, conduct discovery sessions with representatives from the prospective customer to build relationships with the customer and understand their unique needs.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of SAP solutions and appropriate industries to maintain credibility with prospective customers. Provide proof points with relevant customer stories.
• Support RFI & RFP completion in support of customer proposals.
• Ability to effectively present to customers in a virtual environment using virtual technologies (Zoom, Teams, etc.).
• Provide limited post-sale support to key customers primarily to the project/implementation team to ensure a smooth transition.
• Able to lead as a Solution Captain when deals require complex solutions across multiple LOBs to support a successful customer presentation or demo.
• Effectively leverage support teams who are there to support solution advisory success. (Global / Regional Solution Specialists, Center of Excellence, Industry Value Engineer, Solution HuBs, Deal Advisors, Solution Experience, Product Management).

DEMAND GENERATION:

• Support one-to-many sales and marketing events both on-site and virtually.
• Lead & support Design Thinking workshops to promote new and innovative solutions for customers and prospects.
• Collaborate with the sales team to identify whitespace opportunities at accounts.

SOLUTION ADVISORY READINESS:

• Develop close relationships with market unit sales teams to promote effective sales methodologies.
• Participate in demo scenario design and planning and assist in configuration as needed. Participate in new product release input and testing and training of peers.
• Serve as a champion for or participate as a leader in Line of Business or Solution Hubs and provide knowledge transfer to colleagues as needed.

While people might not use word “Guru” out loud to describe you, it is what they will be thinking!

Qualifications and Experience – Do yours line up?

Hint: you don’t have to be an expert in everything and it’s okay if you haven’t had a Presales role in the past. If what you’ve read so far excites you, we want to talk!

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience SAP Finance implementation or relevant Finance/Accounting role
• Experience in one or more of the following functional areas: Finance Operations, Financial Planning & Analytics, Accounting & Financial Close, Treasury & Working Capital Management, Enterprise Risk and Managemen
• Experience in Finance operations is a plus
• Demonstrates 5-7 successful engagements implementing Financial Solutions
• Expert knowledge/expertise on end-to-end processes/solutions for banking, cash, and treasury risk management is a plus
• Public accounting or internal audit experience a plus
• Experience in sales and sales processes
• 3-5 years of presales experience preferred
• Excellent presentation and communication skills English: proficient
• Business level local language: expert

Education:

• Bachelor equivalent: minimum requirement
• Master equivalent: preferred MBA
• Certified in SAP finance-related solutions is highly recommended

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: 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.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 403808 | Work Area: Presales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

We help the world run better

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.

SAP Ariba Business Process Consultant

Company Description

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries innovate through simplification. From the back office to the boardroom, warehouse to storefront, on premise to cloud, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.

About Us

Do you want to work for the leader in Cloud Procurement solutions?

Join SAP Ariba, the Cloud Procurement solutions suite of SAP, and contribute to our journey to change the way companies do business together. We are changing the nature of business by transforming business connections into smart cloud-based collaboration. We do this by delivering an unsurpassed experience to our customers, buyer and sellers, and we are looking for a team member to help take customer experience on the Ariba solutions to the next level.

We can offer a very dynamic work environment that is on a growing path and where we are able to offer career opportunities that leverage the individual talents of our people. Our philosophy is that our organization is successful when our people are happy and feel empowered.

Job Overview
As a member of the SAP Ariba Consulting organization, the Senior Business Process Consultant is involved in transforming businesses through the implementation and use of the leading Cloud procurement solutions of SAP Ariba. He/she applies a strong understanding of business and procurement processes, as well as solid solution expertise, to deliver high quality projects and support our customers in the successful adoption of our solutions.

Core to the Senior Business Process Consultant skill-set are strong analytical and problem solving capabilities, good communication and presentation skills, an ability to deal with changing environments and to operate independently, in order to provide the client with world-class service on a consistent basis. The Senior Business Process consultant does have a proven track record of delivering high quality results in a professional environment. High energy and motivation combined with an appetite for learning.

The Senior Business Process Consultant is responsible for achieving sound, high quality deliverables on time and within budget. He/she can work on all aspects of the implementation process including participation in the sales process in developing scope of work and requirements gathering, in managing the client relationship, managing the project and coordinating the technical resources. The Senior Business Process Consultant does understand the commercial aspects of an engagement and feels personally responsible for delivering a successful and profitable project to the customer.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Business Process Consulting

• Assist customers through the lifecycle of an SAP Ariba implementation.
• Support the blueprinting process, gathering customer requirements and expectations
• Support the design process with customers leveraging Ariba best practices as appropriate.
• Assist customers in the development of processes and procedures which leverage Ariba solution functionality being deployed.
• Influence the opinions and decisions of clients leveraging proves best practices
• Execute system testing and provide guidance on user acceptance testing
• Develop positive relationships with the customer team.
• Use knowledge of customer’s business and industry to assess findings and shape solutions.
• Speak to a variety of customers from different departments, at different levels and in large or small groups (e.g. customer project manager, technical team).
• Make independent judgments within own area of competence.
• Provide progress information and escalate project issues to the project manager to help ensure deliverables are on time and within budget.
• Successfully execute tasks and activities at all project phases and build an exemplary track record in providing customer satisfaction.

Project Stream Responsibility

Depending on seniority, the Senior Consultant will also take on more responsibility on projects. This could include leading a stream, multiple streams or a project. Responsibilities could include:

• Plan and manage project tasks and resources to ensure deliverables are on time and within budget, and meet quality standards to achieve high customer satisfaction.
• Work with Managers and Senior Managers to establish customer satisfaction programs and other Key Performance Indicators.
• Develop and deliver a project plan that will enable profitable delivery of the value proposition sold
• Manage internal and external resources to optimize client impact.
• Serve as liaison between customer and Ariba internal teams
• Identify and address resource needs.
• Identify and escalate, as appropriate, project issues
• Act as the point of contact for issue escalation
• Provide timely project communication and facilitates regular status meetings
• Deliver project cost and revenue forecasts

Competencies
SAP Ariba Solution Expertise

• Quickly learn new Ariba solutions in order to present them credibly and confidently to customers
• Apply a broad knowledge of the Ariba solutions to solve customer problems and challenges.
• Gather solution and industry knowledge by leveraging the appropriate resources internally and externally
• Contribute to continuous knowledge tracking and development.
• Synthesizes learning’s into a logical story using quantitative/qualitative data and/or sound reasoning.
• Be eager to continuously increase knowledge and skills through formal training programs and on-the-job learning

Written and verbal communication:

• Express thoughts, expectations and ideas effectively and concisely, both in verbal and written communications
• Employ communication effectively to influence team members, leaders and customers

Teamwork

• Proactively collaborate with teammates to anticipate and respond to issues that could impact solution delivery

• Execute with minimal guidance and show strong initiative.
• Display proactive communication
• Adapt style to changing circumstances.
• Provide coaching and guidance to internal or client team members.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business/computer sciences OR Master’s degree in any science
• A minimum of seven (7) years of experience in IT- or procurement-consulting
• Knowledge of procurement operations and/or e-procurement tools
• Extensive experience with SAP Ariba solutions (Supplier Lifecycle and Performance Management, Sourcing, Contracts)
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate workshops with strong facilitation and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to pro-actively identify project risks and issues and to solve them applying strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Based in UAE working on projects in Middle East
• Flexible to work during Middle East business days (Sunday to Thursday) as needed
• Ability to travel in MENA or Europe 80%
• Fluent in English

Qualifications that are a plus:

• Master’s degree in business or computer sciences
• Demonstrated ability to successfully work with multi-functional teams
• Experience with SAP Procurement solutions (e.g. SAP SRM, ECC/MM, other)
• Work experience using project management methods (e.g. PMI)
• Knowledge of other languages (especially Arab is a plus but not essential)

SAP Ariba Business Process Consultant

Company Description

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries innovate through simplification. From the back office to the boardroom, warehouse to storefront, on premise to cloud, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.

About Us

Do you want to work for the leader in Cloud Procurement solutions?

Join SAP Ariba, the Cloud Procurement solutions suite of SAP, and contribute to our journey to change the way companies do business together. We are changing the nature of business by transforming business connections into smart cloud-based collaboration. We do this by delivering an unsurpassed experience to our customers, buyer and sellers, and we are looking for a team member to help take customer experience on the Ariba solutions to the next level.

We can offer a very dynamic work environment that is on a growing path and where we are able to offer career opportunities that leverage the individual talents of our people. Our philosophy is that our organization is successful when our people are happy and feel empowered.

Job Overview
As a member of the SAP Ariba Consulting organization, the Senior Business Process Consultant is involved in transforming businesses through the implementation and use of the leading Cloud procurement solutions of SAP Ariba. He/she applies a strong understanding of business and procurement processes, as well as solid solution expertise, to deliver high quality projects and support our customers in the successful adoption of our solutions.

Core to the Senior Business Process Consultant skill-set are strong analytical and problem solving capabilities, good communication and presentation skills, an ability to deal with changing environments and to operate independently, in order to provide the client with world-class service on a consistent basis. The Senior Business Process consultant does have a proven track record of delivering high quality results in a professional environment. High energy and motivation combined with an appetite for learning.

The Senior Business Process Consultant is responsible for achieving sound, high quality deliverables on time and within budget. He/she can work on all aspects of the implementation process including participation in the sales process in developing scope of work and requirements gathering, in managing the client relationship, managing the project and coordinating the technical resources. The Senior Business Process Consultant does understand the commercial aspects of an engagement and feels personally responsible for delivering a successful and profitable project to the customer.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Business Process Consulting

• Assist customers through the lifecycle of an SAP Ariba implementation.
• Support the blueprinting process, gathering customer requirements and expectations
• Support the design process with customers leveraging Ariba best practices as appropriate.
• Assist customers in the development of processes and procedures which leverage Ariba solution functionality being deployed.
• Influence the opinions and decisions of clients leveraging proves best practices
• Execute system testing and provide guidance on user acceptance testing
• Develop positive relationships with the customer team.
• Use knowledge of customer’s business and industry to assess findings and shape solutions.
• Speak to a variety of customers from different departments, at different levels and in large or small groups (e.g. customer project manager, technical team).
• Make independent judgments within own area of competence.
• Provide progress information and escalate project issues to the project manager to help ensure deliverables are on time and within budget.
• Successfully execute tasks and activities at all project phases and build an exemplary track record in providing customer satisfaction.

Project Stream Responsibility

Depending on seniority, the Senior Consultant will also take on more responsibility on projects. This could include leading a stream, multiple streams or a project. Responsibilities could include:

• Plan and manage project tasks and resources to ensure deliverables are on time and within budget, and meet quality standards to achieve high customer satisfaction.
• Work with Managers and Senior Managers to establish customer satisfaction programs and other Key Performance Indicators.
• Develop and deliver a project plan that will enable profitable delivery of the value proposition sold
• Manage internal and external resources to optimize client impact.
• Serve as liaison between customer and Ariba internal teams
• Identify and address resource needs.
• Identify and escalate, as appropriate, project issues
• Act as the point of contact for issue escalation
• Provide timely project communication and facilitates regular status meetings
• Deliver project cost and revenue forecasts

Competencies
SAP Ariba Solution Expertise

• Quickly learn new Ariba solutions in order to present them credibly and confidently to customers
• Apply a broad knowledge of the Ariba solutions to solve customer problems and challenges.
• Gather solution and industry knowledge by leveraging the appropriate resources internally and externally
• Contribute to continuous knowledge tracking and development.
• Synthesizes learning’s into a logical story using quantitative/qualitative data and/or sound reasoning.
• Be eager to continuously increase knowledge and skills through formal training programs and on-the-job learning

Written and verbal communication:

• Express thoughts, expectations and ideas effectively and concisely, both in verbal and written communications
• Employ communication effectively to influence team members, leaders and customers

Teamwork

• Proactively collaborate with teammates to anticipate and respond to issues that could impact solution delivery

• Execute with minimal guidance and show strong initiative.
• Display proactive communication
• Adapt style to changing circumstances.
• Provide coaching and guidance to internal or client team members.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business/computer sciences OR Master’s degree in any science
• A minimum of seven (7) years of experience in IT- or procurement-consulting
• Knowledge of procurement operations and/or e-procurement tools
• Extensive experience with SAP Ariba solutions (Ariba Buying, Invoicing, Supplier Lifecycle and Performance Management, Sourcing, Contracts, Commerce Automation)
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate workshops with strong facilitation and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to pro-actively identify project risks and issues and to solve them applying strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Based in India working on projects in Middle East
• Flexible to work during Middle East business days (Sunday to Thursday) as needed
• Ability to travel in MENA or Europe 80%
• Fluent in English

Qualifications that are a plus:

• Master’s degree in business or computer sciences
• Demonstrated ability to successfully work with multi-functional teams
• Experience with SAP Procurement solutions (e.g. SAP SRM, ECC/MM, other)
• Work experience using project management methods (e.g. PMI)
• Knowledge of other languages (especially Arab is a plus but not essential)

Bring out your best

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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 404534 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.