TEAM LEAD, SUPPLY CHAIN APPLICATIONS

Job Purpose

Responsible for overseeing the implementation, support, and optimization of SAP ERP systems, including Ariba, vendor management, BTP solutions, and ServiceNow procurements.

Key Accountability Areas

ERP System Management:

• Oversee the day-to-day management and optimization of the SAP ERP system, including Ariba and BTP solutions, ensuring system reliability, performance, and availability.

Implementation and Rollout:

• Lead the global implementation and deployment of SAP ERP systems, including coordinating with local teams to ensure successful adoption and integration.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Management:

• Collaborate with business leaders, IT teams, and external vendors to ensure that the SAP ERP system supports business objectives and operational efficiency.
• Facilitate communication between corporate headquarters and regional offices to ensure alignment in ERP strategy and usage.

Business Process Optimization:

• Work closely with business units to understand their needs and identify opportunities for ERP-driven process improvements, automations, and efficiencies.

Compliance and Security:

• Ensure that the SAP ERP system complies with local and international regulations, industry standards, and security policies.

Reporting and Data Analytics:

• Ensure that the SAP ERP system supports the generation of accurate and timely financial and operational reports.

Continuous Improvement: 

• Continuously monitor SAP ERP system performance, troubleshoot issues, and work on enhancements to improve system functionality and user experience.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies