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SAP Senior Manager - Digital Supply Chain Transformation

KPMG United Kingdom
Birmingham
1 month ago
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Job description

Powered Enterprise is KPMG's world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud-based solutions that uses pre-designed back-office leading practices and KPMG's six-layer Target Operating Model. It enables clients to make better, faster decisions, resulting in a quicker implementation and a faster path to Return on Investment. This solution combines the breadth and scale of KPMG's leading practice, capabilities and insight into a complete solution for an effective back-office.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise through a standardised delivery model, which drives professional delivery to clients. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in the cloud applications (e.g. SAP, Ariba) to lead and deliver client programmes, support pre-sales activities and develop improvement and extensions to Powered Enterprise.

The Role

We are seeking talented individuals with experience of SAP S/4HANA advisory and implementation across various solution process areas. This is a high-profile role within the Supply Chain Capability team, requiring a balance of business development / sales origination to grow the practice and strong client delivery.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

  • As an Engagement Manager, and/or as a Solution Architect lead the delivery of high-quality SAP S/4HANA advisory and delivery projects
  • Provide specialist advice in SAP Supply Chain management and work closely with client leads to optimise processes and maximise the benefits of SAP
  • Lead and contribute to business development and sales initiatives including bid, proposal, and contract / commercial negotiations with our SAP clients
  • Lead the growth of SAP Supply Chain Capability through sharing knowledge, developing thought leadership and supporting the career aspirations of team members
  • Have a functional expertise of latest SAP Supply Chain solution and integration to other SAP modules; including SAP Finance
  • Advise on technical integration of the SAP Supply Chain application with other client and 3rd party tools/applications
  • Advise on data migration and data integrity as part of the deployment engagement
  • Have experience in SAP S/4 implementation in/across; manufacturing industries, consumer packaging goods, pharmaceuticals, retail or oil & gas etc

The Person

  • Functional expertise and knowledge of S/4HANA enabled processes and configuration in multiple areas across: SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP), SAP PPDS, SAP DMC, SAP ME, SAP PEO, SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM), SAP Enterprise Asset Management/MRO, SAP Order Management & Fulfilment/AATP/Logistics Execution, SAP Product Lifecycle Management and SAP Transport Management.
  • Proven Engagement Management and/or Solution Architect experience for large scale SAP transformation programs
  • Deep understanding and knowledge of digital trends in Supply Chain (e.g., Industry 4.0, Digital manufacturing, SCM Digital Solutions that integrate with SAP)
  • Experience in leading on bids, proposals, and commercial negotiations with clients
  • Experience leading onshore, offshore, and near-shore resources effectively to ensure the most efficient delivery for the client
  • Ability to build strong client relationships based on subject matter expertise and quality of delivery
  • Strong interpersonal, team building, organisational and motivational skills
  • Facilitation and problem-solving skills along with excellent communication skills (written and oral) whether this is with client stakeholders or remote development teams
  • SAP system design, build and deployment experience - minimum 3 full lifecycle implementations preferred
  • Experience of business analysis, facilitating a design workshop to gather requirements and then translating the requirements into design
  • Experience producing high quality project deliverables (business requirements, solution design document, functional specs, configuration document, process flows, use cases, requirements traceability matrices etc.)
  • Supply Chain experience preferred in/across manufacturing industries, consumer packaging goods, pharmaceutical, retail or oil & gas

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