Sr Solution Manager IT - Source to Pay

Job Description

The IT Solution Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of the portfolio of Source to Pay projects ultimately creating solutions that enable the achievement of business priorities. The candidate must provide thought leadership and hands on expertise for designing ‘best practice’ solutions that combine knowledge from industry experience and the latest capabilities within the SAP ecosystem.  The candidate must effectively manage business and functional relationships; perform demand planning and prioritization of projects; provide leadership, planning, and people management to Project and Process Leaders, Business Analysts across the business, IT, and third-party vendors.

Additional Responsibilities

• Research and recommend chemical industry best practices and align with key stakeholders to maintain strategic S2P IT roadmap
• Stay informed about S2P systems trends, updates, and new technologies to continuously improve system functionalities and efficiencies
• Provide recommendations to leadership on applying current/emerging best practices addressing issues critical to success
• Identify, establish, and maintain business relationships with key Grace stakeholders
• Identify and manage change management needs leading to the successful acceptance of new processes and use of technology
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (IT, Procurement, Finance, etc.) to integrate S2P systems with other enterprise systems and applications
• Act as SME and IT project manager for small to medium sized projects
• Share knowledge and develop relationships with on/offshore maintenance and project teams
• Responsible for the Knowledge Transfer Plan and successful solution transfer to Grace support teams
• Translate business requests into technical and business process requirements
• Conduct workshops with technical and non-technical resources
• Lead the development within Grace SDLC framework including design, build, test, documentation and training
• Manage projects including providing status reporting, tracking budget and managing internal and external resources
• Ability to travel up to 15%

Required Skills

• Must have good understanding of integrated and end-to-end SAP S2P solutions (Ariba, SAP Procurement, SAP Accounts Payables, Concur, Vendor Invoice Management Tool, Fieldglass etc.)
• Strong knowledge of procurement processes (Sourcing and Procurement) and supply chain management
• Detailed understanding of SAP technical objects integration to ECC & S/4 – User exit/enhancement & Data Mapping
• Designing and configuring SAP Ariba solutions to meet business requirements
• Leading the integration of SAP Ariba with other systems, such as SAP ERP, Tax Engines, BW HANA etc.
• Managing Accounts payables including payments to vendors with H2H setups/Checks
• Guiding complex fit/gap analysis and design decisions and validating fit/gap analysis and design decisions completed by less experienced team members; ensuring deviations from “out of the box” functionality have sufficient business justification and positive value proposition
• Leading project team and workstreams from Initiation through Go live, Hypercare and Post Hypercare support
• Ability to coordinate remote teams and work effectively with an off-shore, outsourcing provider
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to provide direction to less experienced architects
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Required Experience

• Proven management experience in SAP S2P applications
• Prior experience in hands-on configuration, development and/or support roles within SAP MM & Ariba – downstream (buying, invoicing), upstream (contracts, sourcing and SLP) and CIG
• Techno/functional SAP MM and ideally Ariba or equivalent post go live troubleshooting experience
• Experience of configuring and implementing SAP Ariba including CIG (cloud integration gateway) integration with SAP ERP
• S/4HANA experience is ideal but equivalent ECC 6 MM/ LIV experience is acceptable
• CIG support and CIG mapping creation experience would be a key advantage (Ariba API knowledge useful but not a major requirement)
• At least one SAP Ariba implementation in each of CIG, S2C, B&I and SCC.
• Experience in SAP MM (Materials Management) and other related SAP Modules
• Ability to configure SAP Ariba Upstream and Downstream modules independently
• Experience with Ariba SP Upgrades
• Strong support experience in SAP Ariba and MM
• Experience in Accounts Payables
• 12+ years IT Systems Projects / Business Analysis / Service experience
• SDLC project management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Good knowledge of Supply Chain processes in chemical industry
• SAP Certified in MM module and Ariba for SAP HANA Sourcing Procurement or ECC 6.0
• Experience with SAP analytics tools (i.e. SAC)
• Knowledge of other modules of SAP such as SD, FI and PP