Senior Contract Specialist
Job Description
Role : Senior Contracts Specialist
Location : Abu Dhabi
Role Purpose:
Specialist P2P/Contracts is a unique techno functional role with good system and process knowledge on Sourcing, Contract Management, and Buying modules
- Must have minimum 5 years of experience in supporting SAP ARIBA P2P solution which includes Contract Management solution ,Sourcing, Supplier Performance and information management.
- Must have good understanding of the procurement process and supplier management, also have working knowledge of sourcing and selection process of supplier.
- Monitoring and reporting Monitors procurement contractual agreements.
- Must possess Strong Analytical skills and should be able to perform RCA’s and propose permanent fix for issues related to contract management, Sourcing,P2P.
- Broad knowledge of spend management strategies and/or procurement, sourcing, contract management category management and supplier performance & information management.
- Good experience in generating reports to enable data driven decision.
- Support all stakeholders including suppliers, buyers and business units.
Key Accountabilities of the role
- Responsible to work with buyers, category managers and business units
- Responsible to work with suppliers
- Provide best practices around SAP Ariba
- Responsible to carry out online/onsite training and coaching to end users and technical team
- Comfortable documenting all changes proposed and made in Ariba and updating control documents, plus communicating to all impacted stakeholders.
- Loading trouble shooting catalog files into the SAP Ariba p2p system
- Strong proficiency with transactional purchasing systems catalogs and formats
- Responsible for maintenance of catalogues within the P2P systems with regular system check
- Responsible for preparation and regular update of training manual/FAQ’s
Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role:
- Extensive experience in SAP Ariba P2P,Strategic Sourcing, Contract Management
- Good understanding of the entire SAP Ariba suite ( Ariba Buying, SIPM, Sourcing, eInvoicing, Contracts, etc.)
- Must have experience of at least one ERP (SAP/Oracle) specific to Supply chain
- Maintain desired certificates in Ariba.