BTS Regulated Industries Source to Settle Architect

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At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. 

What you’ll do:

The BTS Source to Settle Architect role will lead innovation and digital transformation initiatives for SAP’s largest and most important customers. The responsibilities of this role include creating strategic and tactical roadmaps charting the deployment of digital solutions SAP offers while developing compelling business cases to help guide our customer’s strategic decision-making activities. 

The BTS Source to Settle Architect will provide comprehensive advice to our customers on long- and short-term opportunities for their key strategic imperatives and recommend innovations that anticipate the future direction of both business and IT stakeholders in the Spend Management & Business Network area (focus project-based procurement, public sector procurement i.p. in the A&D,Utilities, Federal and State and Local Government environment).
 

Key Competencies:

• Possesses a comprehensive understanding of the SAP solution suite for procurement centric operations and the competitive landscape.
• Facilitate collaborative architecture discussions with our customers IT and business executives.
• Work effectively across multiple functions and teams to define clear requirements to achieve business outcomes
• Analyze key business and IT requirements in the Source to Settle area (with particular focus on complex, long-term contracts, i.p. in the A&D, Federal and State and Local Government environment incl. topics like contract flow-down, management of disclosure statements, management of multi-year, high value contracts and maintenance programs)
• Develop of strategic roadmaps for the Source to Settle area to ensure a customer’s sourcing and procurement processes support their sustainability goals and values.
• Identify improvement potentials within the Source to Settle Areas – sourcing events, e-tendering, spend transparency, category management, supplier collaboration, payables automation (matching and reconciliation), source determination, vendor performance management and risk management.
• Influence transition states toward joint business outcomes building on SAP solution value.
   

What you bring:

• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation - able to lead customer engagements at an executive level
• Proven excellent knowledge in Source to Settle processes and deep implementation knowledge in SAP ECC, S/4HANA and cloud solutions for Source to Settle (ideally in A&D and Public Sector)
• Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills; ability to present and discuss strategies and technical information in a manner that establishes rapport, persuades others, and establishes understanding for technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of various solution architecture alternatives
• 5+ years of SAP solution experience, 5+ years management consulting experience