Core criteria and role objectives:
Demonstrate expert foundational knowledge critical to the role, such as creating business cases and related metrics, along with use of value-advisory specific tools and templates, with a specific focus on ISBN. Some of the ISBN Value Advisor’s key activities would include:
- Successfully pitching value engagements to customers.
- Leading complex value engagements with cross-functional teams (internal and external).
- Contributing to internal account strategy discussions in a meaningful fashion.
- Conducting executive-level dialogues with customers in relation to the deliverables.
- Developing quality deliverables and delivering them in a timely and coherent manner.
- Establishing and maintaining the trust of internal & external stakeholders.
A typical engagement requires obtaining buy-in of key stakeholders, confirming scope and timeline, conducting discovery workshops, analyzing and synthesizing information, producing quality, executive ready deliverables with the ability to articulate work in a compelling and effective manner.
Experience:
- 13+ years of relevant experience preferred either as a value-focussed practitioner, management consultant, or an operational consultant.
- Deep process-level knowledge of procurement as a business function within enterprises
- Good working knowledge of SAP’s ISBN solution portfolio
- Possess a strong executive presence.
- Experience building and retaining strong customer relationships.
- Experience in diverse technology landscape and process/technology integration issues, SAP technologies strongly preferred.
- Proficient speaker comfortable interacting with customers one to one and/or one to many scenarios.
- Ability to produce storylines and high-quality presentations in PowerPoint with a very keen eye for detail. Comfortable with doing financial analysis in excel spreadsheets.