SAP Ariba Expert

In the capacity as an SAP ARIBA Consultant (Upstream and Downstream) I support Umicore's German and Danish user community. Local Ariba and SAP users (buyers, requesters and approvers) beneift from my full life cycle procurement expertise and support. In this capacity, I have frequent interaction with Procurement leadership and team members and suppliers to help them understand the Ariba way of working, to solve issues and to train the users. My role is embedded as part of the Global Procurement and Transportation Excellence team (PTX). My focus areas are: User support: • Serve as an expert to solve Ariba and SAP issues • Supporting and training Local Ariba Hero’s (key users) in their first line Q&A role • Represent the central project team in the local site. • Create/Update Local Training materials • Execute user acceptance testing in case of changes • Deliver SAP and Ariba trainings

Supplier & Content Enablement • Support central supplier enablement team • Review the wave plan (within implementation of Ariba) with local P&T buyers • Explain Enablement process & impacts locally • Escalate (supplier, catalog, language) issues and moderate between local P&T & central team • Set-up Webinars for suppliers in local language (Q&A) • Communication with local suppliers in the local language

Change Management • Support the global implementation change plan, indicate localization needs to foster adoption within the regions. • List & manage stakeholders ensuring that employees at all levels will be considered • Track resistance to change with users, supervisors and manage issues • Representing the "eyes and the ears" of the user community

Member of the Global PTX team: • As team member, contribute and implement the agreed upon strategy and ensure alignment with Global Process Owners • Support the implementation of the Global Template

Responsible for leading mid-market Ariba implementations. Applying standard SAP implementation methodologies and proprietary best practices, I guided two clients through their respective Ariba SLP and Sourcing greenfield implementations. Leading a small implementation team, we realized complex customer requirements building SAP (ECC and S4Hana) integrated Ariba suites interfacing with SLP Registration and Qualification and Guided Sourcing solutions. In these two projects, I took on both the roles as project lead and solution architect, delivering the template configuration and some of the integration set up. Our clients value my flexible and customer-focussed approach and CNT's competence around integration requirements. Beyond my client engagement responsibilities, I enjoyed mentoring CNT's young Ariba professionals.

Reporting to the Strategy & Excellence Director in Europe, I supported the development and execution of the strategy for business and IT requirements, and the design and delivery for Procurement processes and systems in SAP Ariba and SalesForce. Working with a large and disperse network of stakeholders across the region, my role interfaced to key strategic programmes (e.g. Global SAP Deployment) and BP's IT and Global Business Services functions, ensuring European and local requirements are met. In this role, I supported the regional and global implementation of the SAP Ariba Source-to-Pay (S2C + P2P) components as well as the SalesForce strategic procurement suite with its Case Management, Strategy Builder, Procurement Planning & Performance and Analytics modules, driving BP's systems infrastructure and Functional Excellence agenda. I coordinated Digital programmes and projects, support processes, metrics and operating model design and deployment activities, and was a key member of the global SAP Ariba and SalesForce governance and change boards providing systems and data subject matter expertise.

As part of the global central Downstream procurement team, I delivered direction, sourcing excellence and best practice solutions to our strategic procurement teams so to set standards and system-enable BP Downstream's common processes for their Source-to-Contract lifecycle. My responsibilities expanded so to lead a team of Sourcing advisors and look after a group-wide global stakeholder community. My team and I designed and deployed an eSourcing Centre of Excellence; advised in best-in-class tendering, auction and negotiation strategies and templates; and led SAP Ariba Sourcing systems implementation projects.

In a transforming organization I provide Sourcing, Contract & Supplier Management solutions and process expertise for a successful transition to a best-in-class performing operating model with new service delivery, optimized processes and integrated systems. In this role I am responsible Running event and auction management programs in Ariba Sourcing. deployment and maintenance of a global Center of Excellence (CoE) team for BP's eSourcing activities and related performance monitoring. deployment of SAP Ariba and SalesForce modules ECC6, MDG, SLP, Sourcing, Contract LM, Buying & Invoicing, Guided Buying.

eSourcing coach and global program manager responsible for increasing the global utilization of eSourcing tools and methodologies. Design change management and coaching measures to increase adoption of Ariba Sourcing solution in all global procurement teams. Within two years all relevant KPI's were significantly improved, i.e. # of events as well as $ transaction volume more than doubled p.a., self-service rate rose by > 10%.

Key team member of business coaching team to facilitate the implementation and adoption of global ESourcing tool (first Portum, then Emptoris). Led project teams in hundreds of sourcing activities with the objective to enable members with best practice methodologies. I was the driving force during data collection and aggregation, the lotting strategy and during the analysis of qualifying and final quotes. Established the eSourcing customer support centre for T-Mobile US purchasing operations increasing the utilization of the tool by 30% in eight weeks measured in numbers of events. Design and executed roll-out plan for Emptoris-based Sourcing solution in selected international operational units.

Make vs Buy-Project Lead two Ariba market making teams in transition from in-house build to outsourcing projects involving thousands of parts and hundreds of processes around electronic assembly and plastic injection moulding categories adding up to a spend of €17 million.

Responsible for event delivery program for its European purchasing division. The implementation of a more efficient auction utilization program increased average savings to 12% with an annual volume of €142 million going through reverse online auctions. Received management award for driving the quarterly revenue to over $220.000 on a continuous basis.

I worked for Portum AG as a Senior Event Executive. During my tenure, I planned and managed customer projects, advised on tendering and auction strategies for Deutsche Telekom, Siemens, BMW, Axel Springer, Tchibo, Statoil, and others when conducting online auctions and RFPs. Prior to this consulting role, I was member of Portum's key account team providing market analyses, back office tasks, preparation of acquisition and various strategic alliance management projects. My diversified experience together with my international education, have allowed me to quickly diagnose the sources of resistance that multinational organizations face in implementing spend management initiatives.