Ariba Consultants

**What’s in it for you?**

We see our consultants as part of the Excelerateds2p family and culture and actively invest in all our people so they can continue to excel. Our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to ensure they have opportunities to develop and enhance their skills and create a platform on which to build a strong career. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. Our consultants receive comprehensive training and ongoing one on one mentoring to make sure they do their best work every day.

**About Excelerateds2p**:
**Requirements**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
The Ariba Consultant has responsibility for leading the design, implementation and deployment of SAP Ariba On-Demand solutions, both Upstream (Sourcing, Contracts, etc.) and Downstream (Procure to Pay, Invoicing, Ariba Procurement Content, etc.)

You will be expected to:

- Lead the configuration, testing and deployment of Ariba solutions.
- Participate in the preparation and delivery of a project plan, project budget and work plan.
- Demonstrate an ability to solve a company’s business requirements through the blending of people, process and technology.
- Proactively anticipate project ‘deviations’ and be responsible for taking immediate corrective action.
- Effectively transfer design and configuration knowledge to team members and provide ‘Best Business Practice’ knowledge to aid in the design process.
- Support client efforts in developing a solutions roadmap to support client’s immediate and long-term source to pay objectives.
- Take responsibility as team lead and support respective line manager(s) in people development tasks

**Business Development**
- Be involved in leading new business development activities by assisting sales team with consulting, presales and advisory support and build on-going relationships with new customers
- Build and maintain relationships with key people within SAP and other partner organisations.
- Demonstrate a working understanding of implementation methodology and tools and extend Excelerated Compass methodology to cover Procurement Transformation, Implementation and rollouts.

**Key Skills and Accountability**:

- In depth understanding of ARIBA upstream and downstream processes
- Demonstrated skills in documenting current procurement processes and defining future procurement processes is critical
- Global implementation experience is desirable
- Must have good communication and presentation skills
- Must have strong client facing skills
- Must be able to work well with other team members and build long-term client relationships
- Must be willing to travel