A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers , where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities
As a Package Specialist: SAP Ariba, you will be responsible for implementing and configuring SAP Ariba Sourcing & Procurement solutions for clients. You will work closely with clients to understand their procurement and supply chain management needs and design, configure, and deploy Ariba solutions to meet their requirements.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

Support SAP Ariba Solutions: Design, configure, and deploy Ariba solutions to meet client requirements, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and processes.

Analyze Business Processes: Identify areas for improvement and develop solutions to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance procurement and supply chain management.

Collaborate with Clients: Work closely with clients to understand their procurement and supply chain management needs, providing expert guidance and support throughout the implementation process.

Develop Customized Solutions: Apply expertise in SAP Ariba to develop tailored solutions that address specific client needs and challenges.

Deliver Solution Deployments: Ensure timely and successful deployment of Ariba solutions, meeting client expectations and delivering value to their business operations.

Required education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

SAP Ariba Implementation/Support Expertise: Experience with implementing and configuring SAP Ariba solutions, including design, configuration, and deployment to meet client requirements.

SAP MM (Procurement) Implementation/Support Expertise: Experience with implementing and configuring SAP MM module, including design, configuration, and deployment to meet client requirements.

Procurement and Supply Chain Knowledge: Experience working with procurement and supply chain management processes, including analysis and identification of areas for improvement.





Ariba Solution Development: Experience with developing customized Ariba solutions to address specific client needs and challenges.

System Integration: Experience with integrating Ariba solutions with existing systems (ECC or S/4HANA) and processes to ensure seamless functionality.

Business Process Analysis: Experience analyzing business processes to identify opportunities for improvement and developing solutions to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Exposure to Cloud-Based Procurement: Experience working with cloud-based procurement solutions, including SAP Ariba, to design and deploy scalable and effective procurement processes.

Familiarity with Supply Chain Analytics: Exposure to analytics tools and techniques used to analyze supply chain data, identify trends, and optimize procurement processes.

Knowledge of Integration Technologies: Experience working with integration technologies, such as APIs and data mapping, to integrate Ariba solutions with existing systems and processes.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow,



as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for valuable in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

The salary range for the position is based on a full time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

Job Title

SAP Functional Consultant - SAP MM/Ariba Procurement AMS Support

Job ID

130988

City / Township / Village

Bedford

State / Province

Nova Scotia

Country

Canada

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

79,800.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

125,400.00

Position type

Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

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