SAP Ariba Specialist

Introduction
In this role you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are looking for talented curious and experienced people to support our customers within new S4/HANA project implementations and managed services. We are part of the IBM Group and we promote a tailored culture leveraging on dynamism passion and enthusiasm for new technologies such as Hybrid Cloud Machine Learning Automation Internet of Things S/4 Hana with modern software development approaches as Design Thinking DevOps and Agile.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong project lead/management client facing consulting communicationdocumentation and analysis skills.
• Proficiency in SAP Ariba modules:
  • SAP Ariba Catalogues
  • SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing
  • SAP Ariba Contract Management
  • SAP Ariba – Procure to Pay (PTP)
  • SAP Ariba Spend Analysis
  • SAP Ariba Sourcing
  • SAP Ariba Supplier Enablement
  • SAP Procurement
  • SAP Ariba SLP
• Knowledge of Industry business processes S4/HANA experience and deep knowledge of one or more areas of SAP sales domain (MMSD)
• Integration of Ariba solutions to S4 HANA:
  • Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway *CIG
  • SAP Integration Suite
  • Previous solutions + Middleware (SAP PI/PO Customer Middleware)
• 5+ years of SAP implementation experience and part of 3-5 full lifecycle Ariba implementations.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor or Master Degree (Engineering or Economics preferred studies)
• SAP training/certification in SAP Ariba
• One of:
  • SAP Ariba Contracts C_ARCON_2308
  • SAP Ariba Procurement C_ARP2P_2308
  • SAP Ariba Sourcing C_ARSOR_2308
  • SAP Ariba Supplier Management C_ARSUM_2308
    OR
  • Other SAP S4/HANA
• Intermediate level of English knowledge (B1/B2)
• Basic to Medium knowledge of Abap language
• This position may require occasional travel