SAP Ariba Spend Analysis Deployment Lead

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JOB OVERVIEW:

 

The SAP Ariba Spend Analysis (SA) Deployment Lead’s primary function is to manage simultaneous projects related to SAP Ariba’s Data Enrichment and hosted Spend Analysis service offerings. Typically, these will involve multiple client relationships. The SA Deployment lead will be responsible for informing customers about the deployment process; setting expectations about the customer’s involvement; identifying and planning project scope and parameters; monitoring project progress against an established project timeline; measuring the progress of a project against set goals, timelines, and objectives; providing proactive visibility to the SAP customer team regarding deployment progress; and evaluating project outcomes. The SA Deployment lead will be responsible for planning and coordinating SAP’s resources required to complete a project.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

• Develops overall project plan including timeline, scope of work, work breakdown structure and associated deliverables
• Executes project plan according to established timeline
• Trains clients on SAP processes and tools
• Facilitates team interactions to reach consensus
• Communicates project progress to team at regular intervals
• Delegates tasks and deliverables to appropriate SAP resources and ensure that these tasks and deliverables are completed according to project timeline
• Monitors project progress and proactively manage potential timeline/deliverable issues
• Measures project progress against client expectations and established timeline; assess issues and implement countermeasures.
• Evaluates and continuously improve SAP’s tools and process
• All other duties as assigned

 

SPEND ANALYSIS:

 

• Manage the SAP Ariba Enrichment and Spend Analysis offerings for customers
• Oversee data collection process
• Instruct the client team (Business & IT) on the data schema; define the schema business requirements so it can be mapped to the correct information in the customer’s systems
• Review the client mapping progress and identify issues and assist in resolution (recommendations / alternatives)
• Receive client data, validate data internally with the SAP Ariba Data Enrichment Team and review the data summary with the client for final validation with the Data Enrichment Team
• Oversee the enrichment process with the Data Enrichment Team
• Manage refresh process iterations
• Coordinate client instruction and training
• Assist client in adopting and using the solution
• Travel – 10%

 

QUALIFICATIONS