Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The role of the SAP Ariba Technology Consultant is responsible for the planning, installing and for the configuration of software solutions and systems. It is capable to support employees with specific applications and provides expert advisory. The role analyzes information systems of adidas and individualizes specific system solutions to meet the demand of the business.

Key Responsibilities:
Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organization.

Assists in defining acceptance tests for these recommendations.

Requirements definition and management

Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.

Follows agreed standards, applying appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements.

Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required.

Prioritizes requirements and documents traceability to source.

Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.

Provides input to the requirements base-line.

Investigates, manages and applies authorized requests for changes to base-lined requirements, in line with change management policy.

Porting/software configuration

Assists in the configuration of software and equipment and the systems testing of platform-specific versions of one or more software products.

Documents faults, implements resolutions and retests to agreed standards.

Application support

Identifies and resolves issues with applications, following agreed procedures.

Uses application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.

Carries out agreed applications maintenance tasks.

Key Relationships:
Global IT

Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)

HR Management

Controlling

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Proficient spoken and written command of English

Must have 5 - 6 years of experience in IT Solution design in the area of Source to Pay.

Must have done 2-3 end to end Ariba implementation projects

Good hand on experience configuring solutions in Sourcing , SLP, GB, P2O & Commerce Automation.

Excellent Source to Pay Domain Knowledge

1 year of experience in team management

Understanding of different culture

Participated in projects with people from other functions/markets

Nice to Have

Understanding of SAP Ariba integration including CIG

Agile project Management

Know-how of S/4HANA ,MM-PUR , FI/CO & Fieldglass

SAP Certification & Retail domain experience