*SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) Solution Architect - £150,000-170,000 base salary plus benefts - hybrid UK*
Our client is a leading SAP Integration Partner, helping clients navigate through complex SAP transformations. They have 1000 + SAP practitioners across UK & India and are ranked #1 for SAP S/4HANA certifications in UK and globally.
They are looking for an experienced SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) Solution Architect to oversee complete SAP S4 and Cloud Platform solutions. The role requires you to act as the primary contact for the technology solution with the client's senior leaders and stakeholders.
It will suit someone with an in-depth expertise in Supply Chain Management, specifically Consumer Packaged (CPG) industry sector, along with SAP product suite including S/4, BTP, Ariba, warehousing, IBP and distribution. You'll bring a strong awareness of business requirements met by functional solutions, which include SAP as well as third-party products. You will be experienced in Global Template Design and Rollout Programmes.
Your role
- Leading key design decisions, based on your SCM CPG functional expertise in at least one of the following: Supply Chain / Finance / Order to Cash
- Manage a team of functional leads on a large Global CPG programme to create a compelling end to end solution to meet the client's needs
- Understand and support the Business Change team in change impact assessment and future operating model to support the new client solution
- To have knowledge of Agile methodology and using tools such as Jira and Focussed Build
- Confident stakeholder management.
- To support SAP Supply Chain and IBP sales growth targets, whilst developing and expanding go to market strategies and approaches
- To be responsible for addressing a portfolio of target clients, working with relevant industry sector leads and account executives to proactively grow the opportunity pipeline
- To be a leading contributor to our global network of SAP Centres of Excellence, liaising with counterparts across Europe and North America to coordinate go to market development
- To analyse, shape and lead pursuit responses for SAP Supply Chain and / IBP opportunities. This will include analyzing requirements, solutioning, estimating and developing winning proposals
- To deliver compelling and confident presentations across client pursuits and external/ internal SAP SAP Supply Chain and IBP eminence development
- To develop trusted relationships across client stakeholder groups, key partners such as SAP and key internal groups such as industry sector leads
Your skills and experience
- You will have worked on a Global Template Design and Rollout Programme
- You will have experience with leading distributed teams to scope, scale, design, build and test solutions that are then deployed globally.
- You'll have completed at least 3 SCM CPG or similar process industry full lifecycle projects
- You will be comfortable with managing complexity and ambiguity and giving clear advice and leadership to internal and external teams
- You'll have a passion to work with clients, advising them on how to get the most out of their SAP technologies
- You will have a depth of consulting and functional experience of working across SAP Supply Chain business processes; both in the digital core and wider applications
- You'll have a track record of leading pursuits for SAP Supply Chain and IBP opportunities, from initial relationship building through to successfully closure and delivery of the solution
- You will have knowledge of the strategic direction of SAP and related products and how to architect those into leading supply chain solutions.
- You'll have a strong understanding of the SAP market and competition will be a clear advantage, as well as an ability to help shape a deal and manage it successfully through internal processes
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