Ariba Supplier Enablement Lead

SAP Middle East & North Africa

UAE

Ref: KP442-51

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Requisition ID: 55940
Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services
Expected Travel: 0 - 50%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries innovate through simplification. From the back office to the boardroom, warehouse to storefront, on premise to cloud, desktop to mobile device - SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.

Do you want to work for a company that is changing the nature of business by transforming business connections into smart cloud-based collaboration? We do this by delivering an unsurpassed experience to our customers, buyer and sellers, and we are looking for a team member to help take customer experience on the Ariba Network to the next level.

Global commerce today requires much more than scanning or faxing key documents such as purchase orders, invoices, and payment remittance. For better commerce, you must establish realtime electronic collaboration with your entire supply base on a global level, so you can dramatically compress the invoice and payment processing cycle, comply with contracts and regulations, achieve working capital breakthroughs that lower supply chain risk, and more. But few organizations can effectively target and onboard thousands of global suppliers. Ariba has this expertise, with outsource-service capabilities and self-service tools to automate the enablement process for any supplier anywhere in the world. We can help you match your vendors to existing Ariba Network suppliers and onboard new suppliers, or provide tools for you to manage the process on your own.

The Supplier Enablement Lead manages multiple Customer projects simultaneously, that can span over several years. The Supplier Enablement Lead partners with each Customer to create a specific strategy that will allow them to reach their goals of cost saving and process efficiency by enabling a number of suppliers or ensuring a volume of transactions is happening electronically. The Supplier Enablement Lead educates the Customer on Ariba Network functionality and supplier enablement best practices, assists with the creation of an education package for suppliers and is responsible for the successful execution of the onboarding program, in time and at cost. Internally, the Supplier Enablement Lead interacts with Customer Engagement Executives, Solution Management, Commercial Teams and the supplier enablement execution team consisting of Supplier Managers, Seller Integrators and other technical resources.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

Customer Focus
* Builds relationships with Buyer Customers at all levels.
* Has ultimate responsibility for project content and strategy including: Supplier Enablement Strategy Execution, Catalog creation and maintenance, Supplier Integration.
* Assists Customers with strategy and suppliers with documentation around electronic invoicing and VAT regulations in different European countries.
* Acts as project manager for cross functional teams consisting of both internal and external stakeholders. Accountable for structuring projects to meet customer goals and objectives.
* Prepares and delivers analyses and presentations for customers to convey expectations, risks, options, project plans, results, etc.
* Responsible for understanding key business drivers and managing operational metrics, including cost, quality, cycle-time and customer satisfaction. Holds ultimate responsibility for customer satisfaction on assigned projects.

Ariba Solution Expertise
* Leverages Ariba's expertise to design and develop an effective supplier enablement strategy that determines the type of enablement Suppliers require based upon their
* profile, purchase order, invoice volume, and spend. Cleansing, duplicate detection (de-duping) and segmentation of vendor master data helps Customer to effectively target and onboard suppliers, in waves by supplier tiers, according to Customer's objectives. In addition, existing enabled suppliers on the Ariba Network will be highlighted.
* Expert in Ariba Network features and functions, including Supplier Enablement Automation.
* Conversant with the Catalog Administration functionality in Procure to Pay (P2P) solutions and Ariba Network, and Customer Specific Training Material for suppliers.

Practice Development
* Understands and complies with work instructions, process documents, and technology tools.
* Actively identifies, contributes to and facilitates business impacting continuous improvement efforts using Lean Techniques.
* Expected to always exceed targeted quality objectives.
* Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills within a project, customer or leadership team. Motivates and drives cross-functional team towards aggressive goals.
* Able to handle highly complex projects. Acts self-sufficiently to identify solutions and strategic direction in spite of high degrees of ambiguity and uncertainty.

People Development
* Leverages prior project management and technical expertise. Capable of quickly developing knowledge in other areas of enabling requirements.
* Demonstrates exceptional problem solving skills and is looked at by the organization as a leader within the role.
* Experience and proven performance leading people in direct team leadership, customer leadership or project leadership role.

Teamwork
* Adept at appropriately escalating issues within and across teams.
* Assists Team Members with resolution of short term capacity needs.
* Actively mentors and provides guidance to team members.
* All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

* University degree
* Fluent English and Arabic. Other languages will be an asset.
* Min. 10 years of professional experience (preferably in Finance / AP, Procurement, e-Commerce, Business Operations, Software Implementation)
* Min. 5 years of project management experience in a specific industry

SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT
To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.

SAP is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

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About the Company

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends SAP's leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.

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