SENIOR CONSULTANT WITH SAP ARIBA FOCUS - The Hackett Group Inc.

The Hackett Group (NASDAQ: HCKT) is an intellectual property-based strategic consultancy and leading enterprise benchmarking firm to global companies, offering digital transformation including implementation of leading enterprise cloud applications, workflow automation and analytics that enable digital world class performance.

Hackett’s Strategy & Business Transformation (S&BT) practice specializes in helping clients to improve the performance of their operations to enable growth and effectiveness and achieve meaningful cost efficiencies. As part of Business Transformation, Hackett professionals provide dedicated expertise in business strategy, operations, finance and shared services, human capital management, strategic sourcing, procurement and information technology. Our approach provides full lifecycle service from strategy definition through design and implementation and, finally, continuous improvement. All of Hackett’s programs have digital solutions embedded to accelerate and fuse our clients' business and technology transformations.

Please visit our website at www.thehackettgroup.com to find out more about our firm.

SENIOR CONSULTANT – STRATEGY & OPERATIONS WITH SAP ARIBA FOCUS

The Strategy & Operations (S&O) practice is one of the key practice areas within the Strategy & Business Transformation Practice, and we focus on assisting our clients with business challenges in the areas of supply chain, logistics, procurement, and general operations. Senior Consultants are primarily responsible for day-to-day project execution. They apply well-honed consulting and functional skills in the delivery of major project components and deliverables. Furthermore, Senior Consultants are involved in firm building and business development activities such as project diagnostics, project playbooks and accelerators, internal training, and proposal development.

Senior Consultants will typically be involved in the following activities:

Scoping and planning client engagements

Identifying and resolving issues critical to the clients' strategic and operational success

Providing technical/functional content

Developing and presenting conclusions and recommendations to client management

Providing solution implementation assistance as required

Developing leading industry insight to present to clients

Leading project workstreams and reporting project progress

We are specifically looking for Senior Consultants with expertise in SAP Ariba implementations to join our Sourcing & Procurement practice within Strategy & Operations. Specific experience requirements for this role include:

Two to four years previous consulting experience

• SAP Ariba technology implementation experience involving:
• the full SAP Ariba suite (Buying & Invoicing, Sourcing, Contracts, SLP, Risk, SNAP)
• global deployments and the associated nuances (compliant invoicing, tax, etc.)
• acting in a lead role from requirements gathering and design through configuration build and deployment
• Procure-to-Pay Process experience
• Other E-Procurement experience (Coupa, Jaggaer, Ivalua experience a plus)

Senior Consultants will typically have:

3+ years of related consulting or industry experience showing progression/promotion

Outstanding analytical capability

Demonstrated experience with strategy and operations within one or more targeted industries

The ability to effectively operate independently and in a team environment

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

An MBA or other relevant advanced degree from a top educational institution

In addition to the qualifications listed above, the firm places high emphasis on relevant personal qualities: entrepreneurial, creative, imaginative, resourceful, independent, motivated, professional and collaborative.

Applicants must be willing and able to travel to client work locations up to five days/week.