S&CGN - Tech Strategy & Advisory – Data on Cloud - Consultant

SAP MM/Ariba Solution Architect

Join our team in Technology Strategy & Advisory for an exciting career opportunity to enable our most strategic clients to realize exceptional business value from technology.

Practice: Technology Strategy & Advisory, Capability Network I Areas of Work: Platform strategy, migration, assessment and implementation I Level: Manager | Location: Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata | Years of Exp: 5-9 (Minimum)

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture

Are you passionate about leveraging technology for large-scale transformation and innovation for global clients? Are you passionate about being part of an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture?

Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities in Accenture Technology Strategy & Advisory.

The Practice – A Brief Sketch

The Technology Strategy & Advisory Practice is a part of Accenture Strategy and focuses on our clients’ most strategic priorities. We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative R&D transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.

Here is a glimpse of your day-to-day responsibilities:

• Work as a lead SAP Functional Solution Architect and support with solutions for end-to-end request for proposal or ERP assessment requests.

• Engaging with the Client and designing new business processes based on customer requirements, scoping, discovering, explaining business benefits and use cases and developing a roadmap to meet expectations.

• Identifying, assessing and solving complex business problems across SAP S4 Hana ERP landscape throughout the project lifecycle, providing subject matter expertise with a strong strategic awareness of the SAP market and associated technologies.

• Driving enterprise business, application and integration architecture.

• Assisting clients to build the required capabilities for growth and innovation to sustain high performance.

• Support our business development activities, working with our sales teams in proposal generation, shaping the solution plan and delivery approach for SAP transformations.

• Developing our offerings and assets and participate in pre-sales activities.

• Mentoring and developing our people and contributing to asset creations and knowledge sharing sessions.

Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role:

• Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation.

• The ability to develop technology solutions and value adding propositions and take these to market.

• Deep domain expertise across one/more of Retail, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, Life Sciences, Pharma, Telecom. Understanding the domain trends and technology offerings across these industry sectors.

• Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement.

• Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities.

• Participation in Pre-Sales, Bid Management and overall appreciation of estimation, scoping and assumptions for a large SAP ECC or SAP S/4 HANA implementation using various methods such as ASAP or Activate or others.

• Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains.

• Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders and ability to drive C-suite/senior leadership level discussions.

• Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward-thinking view of the market.

• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships.

• Demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team.

• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements.

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Your experience counts!

• MBA from a tier 1 institute

• Minimum experience of 5-9 years and above in SAP ERP and should have led minimum 2 S/4 HANA implementation/ transformation projects (Solution Architect/ Offshore lead)

• Working experience across:

• Experience in design and business blueprint and greenfield implementation of SAP ECC or SAP S/4 HANA core functionalities across Procurement & Sourcing / MM, ARIBA as part of an enterprise-wide design and blueprint of SAP. Deep appreciation of comparative capabilities of SAP ECC and their enhancements in SAP S/4 HANA (1809, 1909, 2020 etc.), across Sourcing and Procurement areas.

• Led business workshops and roadmap sessions in defining a solution blueprint for Procurement and/or Supply Chain in an SAP S/4 environment. Expertise in S/HANA Procure to Pay, and either of the ARIBA Upstream or  downstream modules (Strategic sourcing, Guided buying, Contract management etc.) and cross functional integration with SCM, Finance, S/4 HANA Central Procurement, Order To Cash  Integration knowledge with Third party planning tools, Ability to drive requirement gathering sessions and discussions with business stakeholders and IT in terms of adoption of SAP capabilities offered in S/4 HANA in line with Best practices and provide a point of view on  transformation/ migrations/ changes from current SAP ECC or other legacy ERPs.

• Demonstrated functional specialization in any one of Procurement & Sourcing areas for various industry scenarios.  Experienced in contributing to BD/proposals as ARIBA SME and to lead/guide team across active engagements. Experience in working on practice initiatives, asset creations, conducting knowledge sessions.

• Expertise in SAP IS across any one of Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Life Sciences and Healthcare, and demonstrated by real-life projects in the sectors as mentioned.

• Knowledge and experience in implementing SAP Public Cloud or SaaS offerings. Experience in working across a Hybrid ERP environment comprising both SAP on-prem and SAP SaaS solutions.

• Led and delivered large-scale transformation and / or migration of SAP ECC and other legacy ERPs to the new SAP S/4 HANA architecture. Deep appreciation of one/more of the functional areas of Procurement and Sourcing or Supply Chain. Experience in using one/many approaches for phased migration and transformation to SAP S/4 Procurement & Sourcing using either SLT or BODS or other techniques. Demonstrated expertise in an Hybrid ERP environment comprising various flavor of SAP and other 3rd party ERPs.

• Understanding of SAP’s integration approach and methods such as SAP PI or SAP Cloud Integration platform. Understanding of SAP Leonardo platform w.r.t IoT, AI and ML.

• Expertise in creation of business case, functional prototypes in demonstrating the value and impact of an SAP S/4 deployment, business value assessment for an implementation (either greenfield or brownfield) of SAP S/4 HANA. Real life experience in using components from SAP Activate methodology as part of program implementation.

• Good Analytical and Assessment skills in driving the discovery workshop, performing the AS-IS assessment and Fit-Gap Analysis, and providing suggestion of TO-BE design in terms of Cost, tools, people, and Organizations (i.e., change management).

What’s in it for you?

• An opportunity to work on transformative projects with key G2000 clients

• Potential to Co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners and, business intelligence professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies.

• Ability to embed responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.

• Personalized training modules to develop your strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge and capabilities

• Opportunity to thrive in a culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 569,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities. This is our unique differentiator. To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Capability Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Our Capability Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit https://www.accenture.com/us-en/Careers/capability-network

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