Lead Consultant, SAP IBP

Job Description

Lead Consultant, SAP IBP

Company Overview

Argano is a leading global digital consultancy, renowned for bridging the gap between strategy and execution to achieve high-performance business operations transformation. Our mission is to empower our clients with improved agility, profitability, customer engagement, and growth through strategic consulting. Leveraging proprietary intellectual property, Argano offers a comprehensive review of business operations, highlighting strengths and identifying areas for enhancement. With a global team of industry experts, we lead in operational design and technology implementation across a vast array of applications, including SAP S/4HANA solutions, positioning our clients at the cutting edge of digital transformation.

Reporting into the Digital Supply Chain Practice, you will join a team that has been guiding major transformation initiatives and critical projects for our clients.

The Argano Digital Supply Chain practice helps organizations analyze and improve their respective supply chains. From a long-term strategy determining where to place operating locations; identifying the best areas for capital investment; to delivering to a specific customer on time in full, we explore methods for maximizing performance at every stage in the process.

Your Charter Has a Number Of Components

• Work closely with the Engagement or Project Manager to review the high-level plans developed during the sales process to build the detailed workplans and the inventory of required deliverables needed to deliver the required outcomes for our clients.
• Leverage our LIFT delivery methodology and past project key learnings while building the required plan which uniquely fits the client situation.
• Establish a strong working relationship with the client business leaders and project sponsors.
• Work with Argano’s clients to lead the implementation of SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) module(s) as defined in the Statement of Work.
• Be able to help clients understand how to utilize SAP IBP modules across different horizons.
• Manage client blueprint and design sessions to create seamless solutions within a client’s SCM environment.
• Lead Supply Chain and Decision Analysis to identify and size improvement opportunities in client’s supply chain planning, logistics and distribution networks utilizing SAP IBP.
• Utilize BI/BW or similar analytics programming tools & concepts to develop solutions for clients.
• Consult client on their effective usage of ERP systems (particularly SAP) and adjacent systems.
• Be prepared to work across one or more projects (at one or more clients).
• Actively participate in the development and refinement of our Digital Supply Chain improvement methods, tools and capabilities.
• Lead/champion a specific set of Digital Supply Chain leading practice capabilities teaching & training the rest of our community of practice how to best deploy when needed.
  
  

A successful candidate must be able to demonstrate these key requirements before formally entering our recruitment process:

• 5-10 years of experience in supply chain planning or supply chain execution.
• Min. BS degree in a related technical field (Engineering, Supply Chain) or BA degree in business with relevant job experience.
• Three plus years of experience in Supply Chain and/or Operations management, either from industry or consulting. More specifically, strong proficiency in the concepts, processes, techniques and tools surrounding S&OP, Demand, Supply, Inventory and Logistics.
• Exceptional demonstrated ability to learn quickly and apparent strong problem— solving skills/mindset.
• Must display a keen interest to learn, absorb complex topics, and ability to convey complex topics in simple memorable terms.
• Strong communication skills; written, oral, group facilitation.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, confident in your ability to execute work.
• Ability to step into an unstructured customer situation and organize/structure it according to goals.
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated expertise in MS Office tools
• Strong ability to collaborate as part of a team, and willing to step in to any role to assure customer success.
• Requires minimum 5 full lifecycle implementations of SAP IBP (Demand Planning, Supply & Response, S&OP, Control Tower, Inventory Optimization), experience with the integration of IBP to SAP and other 3rd party products, and 5 years of lT/lS Consulting experience.
• Desired: Prior experience with the SAP Advanced Planning and Operations toolset.
• Demonstrated leadership of teams (minimum 4 people);
• Up to 50% of travel required depending on the project.
• US Citizenship required.
  
  

Required Certifications

• SAP IBP for Supply Chain 2311 or later
  
  

About Us

Argano is the first of its kind: a digital consultancy totally immersed in high-performance operations. We steward enterprises through ever-evolving markets, empowering them with transformative strategies and technologies to exceed customer expectations, unlock commercial innovation, and drive optimal efficiency and growth.

Argano is an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.