SAP Procure-to-Pay (P2P) / Inventory Management (IM) Lead in West Perth, Australia

Introduction

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

As an experienced SAP consultant at IBM Consulting, you will deliver innovative business solutions through design, build and test, including systems integration. You will leverage your subject matter expertise and your experience to ensure successful project delivery and client success. We will give you access to unique career opportunities, and a vast and diverse network of talented SAP professionals.

As a lead member of our SAP functional team, you will get the chance to participate in new and existing implementations, developed with the latest technology and tools. At IBM you will find your role has a unique look, combining both strong technical and business skills. This role will require far more than just functional experience with SAP Materials Management; candidates will also need to demonstrate deep consulting skills backed up by practical experience, preferably in a professional consulting organisation.

The successful candidate will have a solid SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) background with extensive experience of the Materials Management modules, across at least 4 full implementations. The candidate will demonstrate end-to-end project experience that encompasses process design, planning, and management; execution of the build through to go-live is a must. Experience implementing systems based on a templated solution will be highly valued.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Extensive demonstrable SAP implementation experience, including at least 4 full end-to end project lifecycles, including instances where the candidate has led the SCM-MM stream for the project.

• Experience implementing SAP SCM-MM for a mining organisation.

• Strong knowledge in the SAP Materials Management domain and general knowledge of other SAP modules. We are looking for an MM expert for this role.

• Previous history performing FITGAP analysis and leading workshops with client business representatives and Process Architects.

• Customisation experience of SAP SCM MM solutions and an understanding of the core data structures and data flows.

• Strong problem-solving skills to drive resolution of defects and issues by understanding client needs and presenting options to resolve the problem.

• An ability to identify, develop and implement solutions in the SAP SCM MM domain to address gaps to meet the needs of the business.

• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

• Proven ability to deliver high profile activities to tight timescales.

• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment.

• Strong stakeholder management skills

• Strong presentation skills

• Must be able to be able to plan and manage own workload (self-directing) with minimal. oversight, escalating where necessary to address potential risks or resolve issues.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Previous experience delivering SAP solutions while working for a professional services consulting organisation will be highly valued.

• Has implemented globally designed template solutions into a regional (subsidiary) market.

• Team lead or project management aspirations in combination with a strong drive to develop as a functional consultant.

• Ambition, excellent leadership skills and a talent for building successful client relationships will be highly valued.