Job Description

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

Key Requirements

• Excellent Communication Skills: Capable of engaging both technical and non-technical audiences with the ability to articulate complex scenarios and problems in a manner tailored for a given audience from stakeholders to developers.
• Ownership and Problem Resolution: Willingness to take ownership of problems and subsequently resolve them by consulting and approving solutions with relevant stakeholders, business, solution architects, and SMEs.
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: Work in tandem with other SAP Specialists to manage and influence stakeholders across a broad range of levels to achieve consensus and champion delivery.
• Adherence to Standards: Ensure solutions follow the Client's architecture principles, security standards, and financial governance requirements. Demonstrate pragmatism when industry best practices buttress against RMG real or perceived market advantage approaches.
• Centre of Excellence Participation: Participate in the creation of a centre of excellence for SAP.
• SAP Technology Proficiency: Experience in current best practices, SAP technologies & philosophies such as clean core, side-by-side developments, coupled with knowledge of deprecating SAP technology.
• Strategic Recommendations: 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.
• Technical Roadmap Management: Awareness and ability to help drive and manage the SAP solution roadmap in all the respective areas from a technical perspective.
• Solution Communication and Delivery: Work closely with business and project teams to understand strategies, processes, pain points, and effectively communicate solutions to them.
• Cross-Functional Knowledge: 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.
• Staying Current: Remain ‘current' with the impacts of cross-functional changes within SAP and broader industry trends.
• Business Process Optimization: Cross SAP functional knowledge to aid a simplification agenda and optimizing business processes using SAP standard processes and techniques to enable business agility.
• Deliverable Quality: Experience in producing high-quality deliverables to a high standard, including but not limited to SAD's, specifications, option papers, etc.
• Outsourced Environment Experience: Experience of having worked in outsourced multi-supplier environments with a degree of understanding of how to design and assure solutions in these situations.
• End-to-End Solution Delivery: Experience of delivering end-to-end SAP solutions in complex organizations.
• Transformation Experience: Experience in cloud transformation or SAP ECC to SAP S/4 HANA transformation program(s).
• Development and Integration Approaches: 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.
• SAP Module Knowledge: 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.