AES SAP Ariba Manager Operate

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives. In SAP procurement at PwC, you will focus on implementing, configuring, and maintaining the SAP Procurement module within an organisation. You will utilise this module to streamline and automate the procurement process, including purchasing, supplier management, contract management, and inventory management.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firms code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

• As a Manager, youll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
• Ability to manage team effectively plan and execute the deliverables.
• Work with PwC leadership and contribute to practice building -training and recruitment activities.
• Facilitating effective communication and collaboration among team members and stakeholders.
• Providing necessary guidance and required support to team members and ensuring the team understands roles and responsibilities.
• Good Team player. Take up cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.
• Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.
• Ability to analyze data, identify trends and suggest improvements.
• Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
• Keep up to date with developments in the area of specialization.
• Uphold the firms code of ethics and business conduct.
  
  

• Should have a minimum of 10 years of experience in SAP and has worked on multiple SAP Ariba implementation and support projects.
• Overview knowledge of Ariba upstream and Downstream modules like Ariba Procurement, Supplier Lifecycle & Performance, Strategic Sourcing, Contracts Management, Cloud Integration Gateway, Supply Chain Collaboration and Ariba Network and have expertise in at least one module.
• Provide expert advice on Ariba best practices to client.
• Proficient level of experience in configuring templates, workflows across upstream and downstream solutions, ICM configuration, analytical reports, etc.
• Experience and knowledge of other advance features in Ariba is highly appreciated.
• Knowledge on SAP MM and integration configuration in backend ERP will be an added advantage.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand their business needs and translate them into functional and technical requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including IT, procurement, finance and supply chain to ensure alignment and integration of SAP Ariba solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and support to resolve integration issues, troubleshoot errors and optimize system performance.
• Document functional specifications, configuration settings and integration processes for reference and knowledge sharing.
• Stay updated on the latest SAP Ariba features, enhancements and best practices to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Configure and customize SAP Ariba modules
• Experience in handling technical and functional support issues and knowledge on change management processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, in-order to facilitate business/ technical discussions, document solutions and work well with people at all levels of the organization.
• Possesses excellent experience in functional and technical requirements, study of business blue- prints, designing, development, fit-gaps, workshops, realization, testing, end-user training & support.
  
  

• Certification in SAP Ariba
• Experience in SAP ECC/ S4 Hana is an added advantage.
• Good to have implementation experiences
• Hand on experience in Tools like Service now, Solution Manager, Jira
• Strong understanding of integration with other modules of Ariba
  
  

• At PwC we relentlessly focus on working with our clients to bring the power of technology and humans together and create simple, yet powerful solutions. We imagine a day when our clients can simply focus on their business knowing that they have a trusted partner for their IT needs. Every day we are motivated and passionate about making our clients’ better. 
• Within our Managed Services platform, PwC delivers integrated services and solutions that are grounded in deep industry experience and powered by the talent that you would expect from the PwC brand. The PwC Managed Services platform delivers scalable solutions that add greater value to our client’s enterprise through technology and human-enabled experiences.  Our team of highly skilled and trained global professionals, combined with the use of the latest advancements in technology and process, allows us to provide effective and efficient outcomes.  With PwC’s Managed Services our clients are able to focus on accelerating their priorities, including optimizing operations and accelerating outcomes.  PwC brings a consultative first approach to operations, leveraging our deep industry insights combined with world class talent and assets to enable transformational journeys that drive sustained client outcomes. Our clients need flexible access to world class business and technology capabilities that keep pace with today’s dynamic business environment.  
• Within our global, Managed Services platform, we provide Application Evolution Services (formerly Application Managed Services), where we focus more so on the evolution of our clients’ applications and cloud portfolio. Our focus is to empower our clients to navigate and capture the value of their application portfolio while cost-effectively operating and protecting their solutions. We do this so that our clients can focus on what matters most to your business: accelerating growth that is dynamic, efficient and cost-effective.  
• As a member of our Application Evolution Services (AES) team, we are looking for candidates who thrive working in a high-paced work environment capable of working on a mix of critical Application Evolution Service offerings and engagement including help desk support, enhancement and optimization work, as well as strategic roadmap and advisory level work.  It will also be key to lend experience and effort in helping win and support customer engagements from not only a technical perspective, but also a relationship perspective.