SAP Ariba Functional Consultant at The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL)

POSITION OBJECTIVE

The SAP Ariba functional consultant will provide functional technical expert with proficiency in procurement business process and have successful track record in a complete implementation of Ariba. The consultant will have excellent analysis, strategy planning and problem-solving skills.                      

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• NQF 7 Commercial Bachelors degree
• SAP Ariba certification
• 5 to 7 years SCM support and at least two end to end SCM implementations

WORKPLACE COMPETENCIES

Experienced with project management skills, action-orientated with strong ability to communicate effectively with technology, executive and business audiences and possess the following competencies:

• Proficiency in procurement business process for government \ state owned entities.
• Expertise in Ariba as a generalist with emphasis on procurement digitalization.
• Excel in organization, communication and analytical skills.
• SAP SCM on S4HANA
• SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing
• SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle and Performance
• SAP Ariba Contract Management
• Liaise with SAP Premium Engagement team
• Analyse business requirements and draw up specification
• Conduct and facilitate UAT sessions
• Understanding SAP integration architecture in S4HANA and SAP Cloud Integration Platform
• Manage and control transport process via SAP CHARM
• Reviewing existing workflows and process design to arrive at desired business state
• Interpersonal Skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to influence people outside of your reporting structure
• Independent thinker

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Scoping of identified support tasks

• Develop high level project plan for identified projects
• Identify key stakeholders
• Identify deliverables
• Co-ordinate working committee and obtain sign off of roles from committee members per milestone / gate
• Translate business requirements and objectives into a project and process plan
• Identify resources needed and assign individual responsibilities per project activity

Management of support tasks

• Coordinate implantation and execution of project work plan and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Track and monitor project deliverables 
• Co-ordinate and facilitate regular status meetings with project team 
• Provide ongoing feedback to senior management and stakeholders in respect of milestones and slippage etc
• Follow up on Action items
• Continuous communication with stakeholders
• Identify potential risks and develop back up plans
• Information distribution to all stakeholders and management

System documentation

• Project Plan with milestones, resources, dependencies etc to be in place per project allocated where agreed with management

• On-going updates to project plan
• Sign-off from all stakeholders (project plan)
• Project Risk Management
• On-going feedback to project stakeholders
• On-going updates to management

Support tasks

• Project Risk Management – document risks (ensure project team sign-off)

• Align risks identified with SANRAL ICT, SANRAL users as well as Internal Audit
• Ensure the project objective is documented as well as milestones, deliverables, technical requirements, exclusions, sign-off, processes
• Ensure that the following stages are included on the project plan:

Definition Stage

• Define the task Scope
• Create the work breakdown structure
• Estimate costs and budget (where required)
• Planning Stage
• Provide estimate time for deliverables
• Project schedule, detailing all tasks and resources
• Execution Stage
• Delivery Stage

Stakeholder liaison

• Arrange and co-ordinate specification handover meetings between various stakeholders (Users, Managers, and ICT Testers).
• Facilitate common understanding of business needs.
• Monitor and resolve queries raised by the Users, Developers and Testers.
• Coordinate unresolved queries with Business if not present during handover and facilitate that all queries are resolved.
• Monitor that specification is updated with any additional requirements.
• Communicate & update various stakeholders across the business of any changes.