Senior SAP Procurement Specialist - Business Systems

The Business Systems team in D+E Corporate & Commercial Systems is responsible for the design, development and support of the BBC’s enterprise wide/corporate systems including Finance, Procurement, Treasury, HR and Resource Scheduling. We work closely with our key stakeholders to understand their needs and then manage a range of projects to meet those needs.

Role Responsibility

The purpose of this role is to ensure that the overall performance of SAP Procurement applications meets business requirements. The role will provide detailed system expertise, technical support and knowledge to both service delivery and business change functions ensuring dependencies and relationships between all associated systems are understood, maintained and can be communicated effectively to relevant stakeholders.

Systems Management - Be the systems specialist for Procurement modules of SAP SRM and other Procurement related Systems.

Lead on requirements gathering with the business process owners and stakeholders, analyse and present solution options that align with BBC Engineering strategies.

Work with the Systems Owner to ensure system performance (KPI’s) are continuously improved, inputting into the systems roadmap, identifying risks and providing risk mitigations.

System Architecture: Responsible for ensuring systems design and architecture is fit for purpose, including disaster recovery architecture.

Project Engagement - Responsible for providing technical consultancy to project delivery and development teams, procurement, service design and change management teams

Responsible for providing technical expertise to project teams throughout the lifecycle of a project

Working with project & service delivery teams responsible for the commissioning and acceptance ensuring new installations/services are fit for purpose, supportable, and are built against agreed specification and installation standards

Change, Configuration and release management - Responsible for minor/major software and hardware upgrades,  ensuring that change management procedures are followed working alongside the teams responsible for UAT, testing and deployment of upgrades into the production environment.

Ensure all work is conducted in accordance with current safety legislation and BBC safety policies, security policies and statutory requirements relevant to the task.

Knowledge Management  - Responsible for the production of technical documentation, ensuring quality and accuracy

Responsible for assessing and inputting into the design and delivery of training for systems under ownership ensuring support teams can be appropriately trained

3^rd Party Suppliers - Responsible for building effective relationships with system vendors to ensure that reported incidents and problems are resolved within agreed resolution times set in service contracts

**Please refer to the Job Description for more information.**

Are you the right candidate?

• Detailed Knowledge of SAP MM/SRM/ UI5/ Ariba including Product Categories, Shopping Carts, MDG
• Detailed Knowledge of Opentext VIM
• Detailed Integration Knowledge with SAP Finance/BW
• Experience in managing a complex technical systems/environment
• Experienced in managing conflicting demands in situations of pressure where priorities are rapidly changing
• Experience of having to communicate clearly with a range of people at different levels of the organisation and explain and discuss technical issues using a range of styles, tools and techniques
• Authoritative knowledge of security policies and statutory requirements relevant to the role
• Experience in working with 3rd party suppliers
• Experience of providing a high quality service in a demanding customer service environment

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: Permanent - full time
Location: London

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days holiday with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

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