Project Manager

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Lead end-to-end functional support and service delivery for SAP Ariba solutions, including Strategic Sourcing, Contracts, Buying and Invoicing, Guided Buying, Supplier Lifecycle and Performance, Supplier Risk, Catalogs, and SAP Business Network.
• ● Act as the primary functional and service-level point of contact for procurement leadership, business process owners, customer IT, security teams, and delivery partners.
• ● Own L2/L3 incident, problem, service request, and change management; drive timely restoration, structured root-cause analysis, permanent fixes, and recurring-ticket reduction.
• ● Manage SLA and KPI performance, ticket prioritization, backlog ageing, major incidents, service reviews, escalations, risks, dependencies, and executive reporting.
• ● Lead requirement workshops, fit-gap analysis, impact assessment, solution design, configuration, functional specifications, estimation, testing, deployment, and post-release stabilization.
• ● Ensure robust integration between SAP Ariba and SAP S/4HANA or ECC for master data, sourcing, contracts, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipts, service entry, invoices, accounting documents, and supplier collaboration.
• ● Coordinate with SAP MM, Finance, ABAP, Basis, security, integration, infrastructure, and third-party teams to resolve complex cross-functional and interface issues.
• ● Oversee supplier onboarding, qualification, enablement, catalogs, account administration, transaction collaboration, and supplier support processes.
• ● Plan and govern Ariba release assessments, regression testing, adoption decisions, change communication, and production-readiness activities.
• ● Maintain functional designs, configuration records, interface mappings, SOPs, runbooks, knowledge articles, known-error records, test evidence, release documentation, and audit artifacts.
• ● Identify opportunities for automation, standardization, user-experience improvement, clean-core alignment, service optimization, and measurable business value.
• ● Lead and mentor functional consultants, conduct quality reviews, allocate work, provide knowledge transfer, and maintain skill and succession coverage for critical services.
• ● Participate in on-call support for priority incidents, critical procurement events, major releases, and planned business activities as required by the AMS model.
• ● Key Responsibilities
• ● Required Experience and Skills
• ● -18 years of overall SAP consulting experience, with extensive hands-on delivery and leadership in SAP Ariba.
• ● Proven experience leading SAP Ariba AMS or large production-support engagements in complex, multi-entity enterprise environments.
• ● Deep functional expertise in at least four of the following: SAP Ariba Sourcing, Contracts, Buying and Invoicing, Guided Buying, Supplier Lifecycle and Performance, Supplier Risk, Catalog Management, and SAP Business Network.
• ● Strong knowledge of source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, supplier management, contract compliance, catalog buying, invoicing, and supplier collaboration processes.
• ● Hands-on understanding of Ariba integration with SAP S/4HANA or ECC using SAP Integration Suite, managed gateway for spend management and SAP Business Network, APIs, web services, IDocs, and middleware.

Requirements

• ● Project Type: SAP Application Management Services (AMS)
• ● Customer Industry: Defense
• ● Location: United Arab Emirates
• ● Role Type: Senior Functional Lead / Source-to-Pay Service Lead
• ● Primary Skills: SAP Ariba, SAP Business Network, SAP S/4HANA or ECC Procurement Integration
• ● Role Summary
• ● We are seeking a Senior SAP Ariba Lead with 15-18 years of overall SAP experience to provide functional leadership, service ownership, and hands-on L2/L3 support for a mission-critical SAP AMS engagement serving a defense customer in the UAE. The role will own the stability, governance, enhancement, and continuous improvement of source-to-pay processes across SAP Ariba, SAP Business Network, and integrated SAP S/4HANA or ECC procurement functions. The successful candidate must combine deep Ariba expertise with strong AMS delivery discipline, stakeholder leadership, integration troubleshooting, and secure operations in a highly controlled and confidential environment.