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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 a managing consultant, you will serve as a client-facing practitioner working collaboratively with clients to deliver high-quality solutions and be a trusted business advisor with deep understanding of SAP Accelerate delivery methodology or equivalent and associated work products. You will lead design workshops, support business development activities and mentor and coach team members to develop their skills and knowledge. There are opportunities for you to acquire new skills, work across different disciplines, take on new challenges, and develop a comprehensive understanding of various industries. There are opportunities for you to acquire new skills, work across different disciplines, take on new challenges, and develop a comprehensive understanding of various industries. Your primary responsibilities include:

  • Strategic SAP Solution Leadership: Leading the technical design, development, and implementation of SAP solutions for simplicity, amplification, and maintainability that meet client needs.
  • Team Delivery leadership: Lead and manage high performing team of SAP consultants to deliver work products on time, budget, and quality.
  • Comprehensive Solution Delivery: Involvement in strategy development and solution implementation, leveraging your functional expertise of SAP with clients and team members and working with the latest technologies.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Professional Expertise: Hands-on SAP configuration experience in SAP SCM SD with a minimum of 4 end-to-end implementations from project preparation to go-live as the Lead Consultant or Solution Architect. At least three of these end-to-end projects must be using SAP S/4HANA. Understanding of core SAP S/4HANA SCM SD data structures and data flows.
  • Process Knowledge: Experience with SCM SD processes and workflows. In-depth subject matter knowledge of the SAP Sales and Distribution and Logistics domains (Business Partners, Sale Orders Processing, SD Contracts and Order Management, Price Lists, Pricing, Pricing Procedures, Rebates, Credit Management, Output Management), and general knowledge of other SAP modules. We are looking for an SAP S/4HANA SD expert for this role.
  • Experience: Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA and its application in client environments & with Artificial Intelligence models and their use in SAP implementation.
  • Well versed with the ETL (Extract-Transform-Load), data migration analysis and ability to lead data mapping workshops with client business representatives and Process Architects.
  • Certifications: Holder of valid SAP S/4HANA SCM SD certifications.
  • Leadership skills: Strong leadership skills and experience in leading teams.
  • Strong problem-solving skills to drive resolution of defects and issues by understanding client needs and presenting options to resolve the problem. 
  • Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills. Strong facilitation and presentation skills.
  • Proven ability to deliver high profile project activities to tight timescales.
  • Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment.
  • Strong stakeholder management 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 (10-15 years) delivering SAP solutions while working for a professional services consulting organisation will be highly valued.
  • Experience implementing SAP S/4HANA in the Consumer / FMCG Industry is 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 expert.
  •  Ambition, excellent leadership skills and a talent for building successful client relationships will be highly valued.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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