Senior AssociateGEP Technical Consultant

PwC US ADVISORY MANAGEMENT CONSULTING

Our Management Consulting team works with our global clients to design and implement growth operational and customer focused strategies for sustainable competitive advantage. Our thought leadership and unparalleled experience help clients turn formidable challenges into market advantage across the value chain and around the globe. Additionally our extensive expertise in various industries allow us to serve clients with consulting services with a focus on the most profitable elements of the value chain to create scalable businesses that will deliver increased sustainable profits.

Our Management Consultants work with the client and project teams to support global engagements from India through activities that are driven towards delivering results conduct analyses and develop insights prepare excel models analyze large sets of data capture asis processes prepare work plans design tobe processes. In addition consultants also support project lead work directly with client teams and facilitate meetings to enable decision making organize and prepare recommendations on client issues and participate actively in new business development thought leadership and firm building activities.

COMPETENCY OVERVIEW: OPERATIONS

The Operations team works with clients across industry verticals supporting engagements in

Differentiated Supply Chain (Planning Inventory and Logistics)

Strategic Supply Management (Sourcing)

Competitive Manufacturing

Innovation & Development (Product Strategy & Development PLM R&D Operations)

Capital Projects & Infrastructure

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

Knowledge Preferred:

Candidates should demonstrate substantial experience and / or knowledge in any sector (experience in the Automotive Aerospace & Defense Health Industries including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Industrial Products Energy Chemicals Utilities Oil & Gas Consumer Markets Technology & Telecom and Retail sectors would be an added bonus in the following areas:

General Sourcing / Procurement: Spend Analysis Category savings assessment Procurement Diagnostics Operating Model Design Procurement Process Design endtoend Procurement Transformation & Modernization Design and of Strategic Sourcing initiatives including RFI / RFP (Request for Information / Request for Proposal) design development and analysis Negotiation strategy Supplier Management Third Party Lifecycle Management Supplier Risk Management Contract Management M&A Procurement Synergy Assessments SourcetoPay Assessment Design & Implementation Category management with knowledge of various Direct & Indirect Categories. Candidates with experience in setting up large scale procurement COE for clients would be plus.

Experience with ProcuretoPay (P2P) platforms such as GEP SMART Coupa SAP Ariba / Fieldglass Celonis and/or Ivalua as an implementer and administrator; ERP knowledge SAP / PeopleSoft / ORACLE or others is preferred.

Ability to take responsibility for all technical phases of an implementation project including architecture design development test customization documentation and data migration solutions for business applications in the SaaS and other ERP systems.

Understanding of fundamental principles of P2P including spend and commodity taxonomies requisitioning PO generation receiving invoice processing & payment processes.

Understanding of Sourcing and Contracts Module Including GEP Price books Supplier Module along with its Integration to ERP (SAP S/4 HANA ORACLE etc.

Ability to Configure & Customize the fields in the GEP transactional documents like POs ASN and Invoices.

Ability to design the Approval work flows in GEP transactional documents like POs Service Confirmations and Invoices.

Understanding of GEP REST & Bulk APIs and their selection for integration with ERP Systems like SAP S/4HANA and other edge systems in the procurement Space.

Functional Understanding of SAP Material Management Module for creation and update of transactional documents (PRs POs GRs Invoices)

Understanding of SAP S/4 HANA APIs for creation and update of transactional documents (PRs POs GRs Invoices)

Ability to gather technical requirements and conduct data mapping sessions to design the integrations between GEP and SAP and other thirdParty edge systems like Enverus ENFOS SailPoint Horizon On Call Storm Force etc.

Ability to work with Middleware tools Like GEP Click IICS SAP CI SAP PO Dell Boomi to implement middleware logic as part of the Integrations between GEP SMART/QUANTUM & ERP system.

Ability to load the Master data and Transactional data using the GEP Bulk APIs and interface utility tool.

Ability to estimate the tasks and resources to design build and test the integration design.

Ability to work with clients during the hyper care phase to resolve integration issues between GEP and edge systems.

Ability to provide expert advice to clients on integration API and flat file best practices and delivering efficient and simple integration design for easy maintenance of system post GoLive.

Skills Preferred:

Delivering significant business results that utilize strategic and creative thinking problem solving and taking individual initiative.

Leading project work streams providing oversight delegating work to aid efficiency and working autonomously with minimal direction.

Collaborating with leadership to deliver client engagements and associated outputs supporting the team in daytoday client management project management and the development of highquality client deliverables.

Emphasizing the ability to build solid and collaborative relationships with team members and also taking initiative to build relationships with client stakeholders.

Communicating effectively (written and verbal) to various situations and audiences.

Managing and conducting or overseeing quantitative and qualitative benchmarking and primary and secondary analyses of large and complex data.

Intermediate skills in developing integrations with Web Services XML JSON SQL and or other integration

technologies are mandatory.

Hands on experience facilitating application integration architecture discussions and workshops.

Proven experience in developing integrations using REST API SOAP Web Services and other integration architectures.

Handson experience working with middleware platforms such as GEP Click IICS SAP CI SAP PO Dell Boomi MuleSoft Snaplogic etc.

Proven skills as a team member team lead or project manager on at least three full life cycle implementations Functional knowledge of Procurement business processes is preferred.

Technical aptitude and comfort in understanding Webbased applications and the SaaS PaaS and IaaS Cloud models and Integration concepts as well as application of these technologies in the enterprise environment.

Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience presenting a clear and concise technical narrative.

Educational Background:

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent preferred. A fulltime masters degree/equivalent is a bonus.

Additional Information

Travel Requirements: Travel to client locations may be as per project requirements. Line of Service: Advisory

Industry: Management Consulting

Designation: Senior Associate

Location: Bangalore India

Past Experience: 8 12 years of prior relevant work experience 3 years of experience as Integration/ Lead Technical Architect capacity in an Agile/ Hybrid development environment for digital transformation in SourcetoPay Programs or equivalent

Preferred Work Experience: Experience in either of the following industries will be preferred HiTech Consumer Electronics & Hardware Software/ IT Semiconductors Telecommunications