Senior SAP Integrated Business Planning Consultant in Manchester

As an Senior SAP IBP consultant, you will work as part of a great supply planning team shaping and delivering the latest planning processes and supply chain planning solutions to a wide and varied set of clients, across many different industry sectors, enhancing solutions and support bid work. Working alongside Capgemini’s team of specialists in our Supply Chain Management Capability in delivering innovative projects to our existing and new clients, you will also have opportunities to develop our pipeline for future projects.

This role is a unique chance to work with the latest technologies, for example: S/4HANA, SAP IBP time-series & order-based planning, but also non-SAP planning solutions, helping clients renew their enterprise planning solutions as they move through their transformation journeys. You will be working on single or multiple project lifecycles, at any or all stages, from shaping the transformation roadmap, through agile delivery to post go live support.

Your knowledge of core SAP IBP solutions will allow you to lead, shape, build and deliver solutions in your functional area as well as contribute to the growth of the SAP SCM Capability. As part of the role, you will have access to enhance your consulting, functional and technical skills, through Capgemini learning and development, and the latest industry recognised certifications.

Capgemini UK is a leading SAP Integration Partner, helping our clients navigate through complex SAP transformations. Capgemini UK has 1000 + SAP practitioners across UK & India and are ranked #1 for SAP S/4HANA® certifications in UK and globally. We work closely with our clients to transform their business together using the latest SAP products and architecture, a deep knowledge of industries and markets, and innovative delivery methodologies.

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

Your role includes:

• Using your experience providing advanced functional consulting within SAP IBP time-series and order-based planning projects.
• Being part of a team that solves problems and provides solutions for large, corporate clients in multiple sectors, working in cross-discipline, agile and distributed teams, across multiple areas of Supply Chain Management, depending on project scope and at various stages of the project lifecycle.
• Leading your functional area within the engagement as an SAP IBP Senior Consultant to deliver full project life cycle delivery.
• Having a solid understanding of supply chain interfaces (CIDS, RTI or SDI) and their capabilities – aligning SAP solutions with customer requirements.
• Leading (and coaching) a team to deliver customer solutions supporting the customer requirements.
• Teaching about industry SAP but also non-SAP capabilities (if possible).
• Working with junior and experienced SAP consultants while being supported by solution architects at leading / global clients (leaders in their respective fields).
• Providing thought leadership to our clients and internal customers with your enhanced knowledge of available solutions both within the SAP portfolio, and supporting products recognised within the industries.
• Managing and developing your career through training, networking, and contributing to the practice and wider group growth and objectives particularly focusing on Supply Chain Planning initiatives.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience include:

• Senior Consulting experience in SAP IBP working across various modules, like Demand, S&OP, Supply Chain Control Tower.
• Experience with OBP – Response & Supply is an advantage.
• Advocacy of best practice design principles along with an advisory focus and ability to provide solutions for the business’s requirements.
• A passion to work with our clients, advising them on how to get the most out of their SAP technologies.
• Experience in multiple end-to-end design and implementation programmes with SAP IBP.
• Awareness of various project lifecycle tools such as Atlassian JIRA, SAP Solution Manager and SAP Signavio.
• Experience in taking the business requirements and creating a functional design with supporting functional specifications.
• Solid understanding of supply chain planning processes like Demand / Supply and/or S&OP.
• Integration experience of the modules that directly integrate with IBP (e.g., Production Planning, Order to Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Inventory Management).
• Understanding of the key capabilities of SAP IBP and integration with other SAP modules and applications.
• Awareness of latest SAP capability and roadmap in the IBP area.
• Experience in designing and defining planning area structure to offer a fit for purpose design.

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Your security clearance requires obtaining Security Check (SC) clearance. To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more. You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.

By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business.

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations.