ERP Functional Solution Architect (Procurement)

This role will provide specialist procurement ERP expertise to support the design, planning and delivery of future procurement capabilities across the Departments enterprise technology landscape.

Primary Duties:

- Engage business teams and system specialists to understand the current procurement technology landscape, including SAP and supporting systems.
- Work in close cooperation with business teams to identify areas of focus for solution design and migration planning.
- Support business teams in defining and capturing requirements for future state, informing design and planning, procurement activities and future implementation.
- Provide specialist advice on future-state solution design and the art of the possible across contemporary procurement ERP platforms and technologies.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and modernise procurement processes and system configurations as part of ERP modernisation.
- Translate technical constraints, mandatory changes and system dependencies into clear business impacts and considerations.
- Assist with data analysis and identification of data cleansing, quality and migration activities.
- Identify and clarify likely business, process, technology and integration impacts arising from transition to future procurement solutions.
- Provide independent validation that proposed solution designs, configurations and implementation outcomes meet agreed business requirements and operational needs.
- Identify and articulate procurement-specific functional, technology, data and integration risks.
- Contribute specialist advice to implementation options, sequencing, transition and phasing analysis for procurement capabilities.




- Provide guidance on the appropriate level and sequencing of transformation across procurement capabilities, including opportunities for phased implementation.

About the Role:

This role will provide specialist procurement ERP expertise to support the design, planning and delivery of future procurement capabilities across the Departments enterprise technology landscape.

Primary Duties:

- Engage business teams and system specialists to understand the current procurement technology landscape, including SAP and supporting systems.
- Work in close cooperation with business teams to identify areas of focus for solution design and migration planning.
- Support business teams in defining and capturing requirements for future state, informing design and planning, procurement activities and future implementation.
- Provide specialist advice on future-state solution design and the art of the possible across contemporary procurement ERP platforms and technologies.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and modernise procurement processes and system configurations as part of ERP modernisation.
- Translate technical constraints, mandatory changes and system dependencies into transparent business impacts and considerations.
- Assist with data analysis and identification of data cleansing, quality and migration activities.




- Identify and clarify likely business, process, technology and integration impacts arising from transition to future procurement solutions.
- Provide independent validation that proposed solution designs, configurations and implementation outcomes meet agreed business requirements and operational needs.
- Identify and articulate procurement-specific functional, technology, data and integration risks.
- Contribute specialist advice to implementation options, sequencing, transition and phasing analysis for procurement capabilities.
- Provide guidance on the appropriate level and sequencing of transformation across procurement capabilities, including opportunities for phased implementation.

Skills and Experience Required:

- Significant experience as a procurement ERP solution architect, functional architect, solution lead or equivalent, working across large and complex organisations.
- Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise procurement solutions, including SAP and/or other contemporary procurement ERP platforms.
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end procurement capabilities, including areas such as procure-to-pay, source-to-contract, sourcing, purchasing, supplier management and contract management.
- Demonstrated understanding of how procurement capabilities operate across multiple ERP, procurement and supporting systems, rather than within a single technology platform.
- Experience with SAP procurement capabilities will be highly regarded, alongside experience with other enterprise procurement solutions.
- Strong understanding of procurement solution architecture, including integration between

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