Strategic Sourcing Lead Consultant

2 days ago


London, United Kingdom Excelerated Procurement Solutions Full time

Are you an **_SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Lead consultant_** looking to take your consulting experience to the next level and work with some of the most seasoned experts in the SAP Source-to-Pay and S/4 HANA space?

Want to expand your horizons and work on a variety of projects across a wide range of sectors, industries, and geographies?

Are you looking for a company that will set you up for success and invest in your growth while also giving you the freedom of flexible working?

**_ Well, look no further._**

excelerateds2p is a multi-award-winning Gold SAP consulting partner with more than 500 successful project deliveries so far and counting Customer success is at the heart of what we do and we’re really proud of our consistently high customer satisfaction, as well as being winners of the SAP Intelligent Spend Management Partner of the Year three years running. excelerateds2p is also developing capabilities in the best-in-class co-exist procurement solutions such as Keelvar, Icertis, Basware and Cordis Applications.

Driving our success are the 120+ experts in our team, who bring an unparalleled wealth of deep domain experience across the entire source-to-pay spectrum through our advisory, implementation, change management, optimization and support services across key industries and geographies.

With offices across US, UK, Australia, Nordics, and Czech Republic, we are one of the few boutique consultancies who can truly support a global procurement/finance transformation and we’re expanding our team to meet our record year-on-year growth. Come and join us

**_ Are you the next addition to the team?_**

We are currently looking for an** SAP Ariba Lead Consultant** to add to our **Strategic Procurement CST Team**.

As a** Lead** **Consultant **you’ll play a key role in supporting our Consultants and Managing consultants in the successful delivery of projects whilst establishing and maintaining great relationships with both new and existing clients.

**_
What you bring to the team:_**

As a SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Lead, you will be responsible for leading SAP Ariba Sourcing, Contracts, SLP and Supplier Risk implementation projects, from leading workshops in the design phase, to the configuration and testing of the solution, up to cutover and hypercare. This could be either on your own, for small scale projects, or as a work stream lead working as part of a larger team under the guidance of a solution lead and/or a project manager.

In this role you will help the customer to define their requirements by proposing best practices for the SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing suite and you will guide the customer through the implementation journey. You will also be involved in the Ariba functional side of the integration to ERP systems as well as Third Party solutions (Icertis, Keelvar, Cordis Applications ) and integration to other SAP Ariba modules.

You will be expected to be a solution specialist for SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing suite and will also be required to assist in the pre-sales process when not actively involved in project work. This could be running solution demos, responding to an RFP and putting together a proposal/SOW.

You will also have the opportunity to lead some internal initiatives either within the Strategic Sourcing sphere or across other areas.

**_ Would be a nice plus to have:_**
- Procurement operations or Category Manager experience
- Experience of running or supporting eSourcing events (RFx, Auctions)
- Experience of international rollouts and working in multi-cultural environments

**_ Could you be our new SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing Lead ?_**

We’re at an exciting stage of growth and we’re looking for people who want to join us on our journey. If you are ready for a new challenge, we’d love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you?

The role will be for our EMEA region and will be based in the United Kingdom, Czech Republic or in Sweden. We support flexible working with occasional onsite presence based on client needs. It’s important for us to give our team flexibility to manage their family and other responsibilities alongside their work commitments; we believe this is key to achieving an inspiring and fulfilling working environment.



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