Job Description

A ‘can do' pragmatic attitude that is delivery focussed and able to withstand project pressures due to tight timescales and complex IT ecosystems whilst working as part of a multi-disciplined project team.

• Excellent communication skills - capable of engaging both technical and non-technical audiences with the ability to articulate complex scenarios, problems in a manner that is tailored for a given audience from stakeholders to developers.
• Willingness to take ownership of problems and subsequently resolve them by consulting and approving solutions with relevant stakeholders, business, solution architects & SME's
• Work in tandem with other SAP Specialists to manage & influence stakeholders across a broad range of levels to achieve a consensus and champion delivery.
• Ensure solutions follow Client's architecture principles, security standards, and financial governance requirements. Demonstrate pragmatism when industry best practice buttresses against RMG real or perceived market advantage approaches.
• Participate in the creation of a centre of excellence for SAP.
• Experience in current best practice, SAP technologies & philosophies such as clean core, side-by-side developments coupled with knowledge of deprecating SAP technology.
• Ability to Evaluate new SAP capabilities (e.g., S/4 HANA innovations) and provide strategic recommendations as to how these can be leveraged to support the Client's business.
• Awareness & ability to help drive and manage the SAP solution roadmap in the all the respective areas from a technical perspective.
• Work closely with business and project teams to understand strategies, processes, pain points and effectively communicate solutions to them.
• Work with a range of SAP products, from old to new, delivering balanced pragmatic solutions, making the best use of solutions available and demonstrable solution delivery.
• Remain ‘current' with the impacts of cross functional changes within SAP, and broader industry trends.
• Cross SAP functional knowledge to aid a simplification agenda, and optimising business processes using SAP standard processes and techniques to enable business agility.
• Experience in producing high quality deliverables to a high standards including but not limited to SAD's, specifications, option papers etc.
• Experience of having worked in outsourced multi-supplier environments with a degree of understanding of how to design and assure solutions in these situations.
• Experience of delivering end to end SAP solutions in complex organisations.
• Experience in cloud transformation or SAP ECC to SAP S/4 Hana transformation programme(s).
• Demonstrable Experience in development/integration approaches such as side-by-side, extensibility, on-stack, CAP Model, SAP Build & SAP Business Application Studio, Integration suite & API Manager. With an understanding of which approach to adopt plus an understanding of integration patterns & available reporting options, SAC, Fiori analytic, fact sheets etc.
• Knowledge of SAP solutions across modules such as FI, CO, FSCM, FM, TRM, SD, MM, HCM, ARIBA, SuccessFactors and technical modules BTP, Netweaver, ABAP & process automation.