SAP Ariba Lead Consultant (f/m/d) - India

THE TEAM - that's us. We are passionate about Intelligent Spend Management, Business Network, Procurement, Supply Chain, External Workforce Management and Business Transformation. In procurement with SAP, we are not only leaders, but also pioneers. Our expertise has made us an SAP Gold Partner and multiple award-winning Ariba MEE Partner of the Year. Our mission: to help our customers create a better digital procurement future by sustainably improving business collaboration and increasing efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the customers throughout the lifecycle of an Ariba implementation, making sure that SAP Ariba’s methodology is followed, and performing Quality Assurance as needed.
• Expected to have a hands-on experience and knowledge of procurement processes.
• Synthesize learnings into a logical story using quantitative/qualitative data and/or sound reasoning.
• Quickly learn new features and innovations in Ariba solutions & confidently present them to the customers.
• Comfortable working in an international environment where you must collaborate with a team remotely.
• Able to establish credibility and being considered as a trusted advisor to the customer.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8-12 years of SAP work experience with Ariba Modules & domain experience
• Hands on experience in upstream and downstream modules
• Experience in minimum 3 Ariba implementation projects
• Worked on at least 2-3 Support/AMS project & at least 1 SAP Ariba implementation project and procurement processes
• Hands on experience in configuring the Ariba modules confirming to the clients' standards & requirements
• Should be able to lead a team of at least 4-5 resources
• Should have worked as a delivery lead for support projects
• Deep skills and experience in design, implementation, and deployment of SAP Ariba On- Demand solutions both from strategic and operational.
• Good communication skills with clear expression using language with precision.
• Broad knowledge of Ariba solutions and understanding of cloud integration methods with ECC or S/4 HANA.
• Expected to have a hands-on experience and knowledge of procurement processes.
• Able to lead customer workshops and design solutions meeting the customer requirements.