Application Advisor - SAP MM - Western Canada CIC

Introduction
As an Application advisor you’ll help clients oversee all activities performed by the AMS team around SAP MM module manage scope and provide leadership in driving collaboration and stakeholder alignment. You’ll gain in-depth consulting skills business knowledge and packaged solution expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into the clients’ business environment. Join us and start your path as a key player to achieve client expected business results and become the expert you want to be.

Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM Consulting helps our clients fundamentally redesign experiences to create new sources of value digitally reinvent their operations for great efficiency and transform their entire enterprises through cognitive. We invite you to consider joining IBM’s global reach outcome-focused methodologies domain skills and deep industry expertise that are helping transform the way we live and work.

IBM’s state-of-the-art Client Innovation Centre (CIC) is the first of its kind in Canada. The Western Canada CIC weaves together IBM’s business insights and industry-leading software portfolio.

In addition our focus on our team is unparalleled as demonstrated by the following:

The CIC is one of IBM’s highest performing delivery centres worldwide –for retention client satisfaction and utilization. Our employees are empowered to stay and grow within IBM. Investment in key partnership with universities government and private sector groups which has resulted in IBM having a key influencing role to invigorate Calgary’s technology sector. We are very focused on continuous skill development – staff training is our third largest annual Centre investment. Employees are immersed in a culture of learning and constant growth
Be a part of making the world more instrumented interconnected and intelligent.

In this role you’ll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ These centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your roles & responsibilities:
You will work as an Advisor and Business Analyst with functional responsibility across SAP MM module for clients. Responsibilities include: arranging and facilitating meetings documentation of decisions status and risks collect requirements with accuracy uphold business process and best practices collaborate with wide range of stakeholders and manage scope.
Strong familiarity with SAP MM implementation methodologies
Extensive experience designing and configuring the key integration points Materials Management module and other SAP modules.
Stakeholder management.

Must be located on-site at IBM office in Calgary.

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?

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Technical Skills

• Basic understanding of how SAP is configured for the MM module
• Able to navigate SPRO
• Skills or ability to quickly learn Service Now (incidents stories reporting etc.)
• High level knowledge of Ariba and Fieldglass
• Strong skills in Microsoft products (Word Excel Outlook etc.)

Functional Skills

• Strong verbal communication skills ability to:
  • Arrange and facilitate meetings/workshops
  • Communicate project status providing visibility to achievements and risk to stakeholders
  • Negotiate with business to ensure adherence to SAP Applications standards
  • Communicate clearly with both onshore and offshore teams
• Strong written communication skills ability to:
  • Create well written concise and understandable emails decision records process documentation
  • Plan and create meeting agendas and document meeting outcomes
  • Update business requirements documents
  • Communicate clearly with both onshore and offshore teams
• Experience in defining scope & stakeholder management
  • Strong knowledge of standard SCM business process and best practices and have the ability to quickly pick up CVE specific processes
  • In-depth experience on collecting business requirements with accuracy and completeness
  • Ability to manage project scope deliverables milestones and ensure team members have clarity and visibility on the process and expectations
  • Collaborate with technical teams to ensure priorities are identified and managed
• Strong knowledge of standard business processes
  • Applicant needs to understand standard SCM business processes and best practices and have the ability to quickly pick up CVE specific processes

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Winshuttle Hydrogen and ServiceNow is preferred skill