Senior SAP Ariba Consultant - Contractor

 

About Altivate:

 

Altivate is a digital transformation enabler on a mission to help businesses find smarter and more innovative ways of doing business. With headquarters located in Saudi Arabia along with 3 regional offices in Egypt, India, and Jordan, we combine different knowledge and technologies to offer our clients tailored solutions and services to address their unique needs.

Altivate provides end-to-end services and solutions based on industry best practices. Our technology competencies are vast and unique; they include SAP, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft PowerBI, Google Cloud Platform, Teradata, Tableau, MicroStrategy, etc.

We work with our clients on unravelling new business opportunities presented by new technologies. We help our clients become more resilient, sustainable, and profitable, efficiently improving their performance and bottom line.

Altivate is proud: SAP Gold Partner, SAP Certified Partner Center of Expertise, AWS Select Partner, Azure Partner and GCP Partner.

We're also a proud recent holder of SAP MEA North's Delivery Excellence award for 2022.

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced SAP Ariba Consultant to join our team on-site in Saudi Arabia. The consultant will be responsible for delivering quality-assured projects to our clients, applying SAP Best Practices to provide effective and reliable solutions. The ideal candidate should demonstrate strong expertise in SAP Ariba, contribute to the development of a Centre of Excellence within the organization, and ensure client satisfaction through professional service delivery.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide high-quality and value-adding consulting solutions to customers at different stages- from problem definition to diagnosis to solution design, development and deployment.
• Review the proposals prepared by consultants, provide guidance, and analyze the solutions defined for the client business problems to identify any potential risks and issues.
• Coach and Mentor the team.
• Document and implement SAP Ariba best practices and promote these practices to team members
• Provide high-quality, value-adding consulting solutions to customers adhering to the guidelines and processes of the organization.
• Support Ariba upgrades including test plan development and user acceptance test coordination.

Skills, knowledge, capabilities and experience required:

• Minimum 5+ years’ extensive functional knowledge of SAP Ariba Procurement, Contract Management, and Supplier Life Cycle Management
• Experience in application design, development and configuration of Ariba solutions
• Solid understanding and experience of working on integration with SAP S/4 Hana (both Ariba to S/4 and vice versa)
• Ability to understand complex business processes, identify solutions and process improvement opportunities
• Experience in 2 or more End to End Implementations.
• Have a structured approach to client for managing the change using multiple communication mechanisms.
• Capable of communicating effectively with project team members at different technical levels.