Ariba Technical Lead

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Lake County, IL location in our global IT organization called Business Technology Services (BTS).

As the SAP Ariba Technical Lead, you’ll have the chance to play an active role in all phases of our global SAP Ariba implementation and roll-out to 40+ countries, as an Ariba IT Team Lead. Your Ariba skills and experience and your lead/project management experience on previous Ariba projects will be critical to the success of our Ariba program and help us optimize procurement processes across our company.

What You’ll Work On

• You will be part of our global project team as an Ariba IT Team Lead managing and contributing to IT deliverables throughout the project life cycle - responsible for aligning technology solutions with business strategies, planning, coordinating, monitoring and implementing very complex STP solutions to meet organizational goals.
• Establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives and deliverables.
• Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect projects working with division and cross divisional management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution.
• Develop and execute a work plan obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed.
• Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to Project Team, Division, Cross Division and Executive management. Make recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues.
• Provides strategic consultancy support to customers in defining or designing business processes and researching and identifying enabling technologies based on customer requirements.
• Assess near-term needs utilizing structured interview processes to establish business priorities, consult with technical subject matter experts and develop alternative technical solutions; advise on options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on other business processes and system priorities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 10+ years of full life cycle Ariba project experience (Upstream and Downstream), including:
  • 8+ years in a lead / project manager role (leading teams of 5+ employees/contractors)

Preferred Qualifications

• Project management certification
• 8+ years of hands on design, build/configuration, test experience
• Configuration experience and process knowledge of:
  • Supplier Lifecycle and Performance (SLP)
  • Buying and Invoicing
  • Catalog
  • Sourcing
  • Spend Analysis
  • Contracts
• Experience in complex/integrated ERP ecosystems, including integration between Ariba and:
  • Multiple ECC and S/4HANA systems
  • MDG
  • Third party tools (Cordis, OnBase/Brainware, Vertex)
  • Use of CIG
• Knowledge of ECC and S/4HANA organizational and master data objects

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $102,700.00 – $205,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.