SAP MM Team Leader

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with

clients across the globe. You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the

hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your

ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our

strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery

Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and

private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills

and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

SAP MM Team Leader

As SAP MM Team Leader, you will take the lead in designing, implementing, and continuously improving SAP Materials Management solutions. Your focus will be on optimizing procurement, inventory, and material management processes, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders to understand requirements, analyze current processes, and deliver tailored SAP MM solutions.

What You Will Do:

• Lead the design, configuration, and deployment of SAP MM modules, including Procurement, Inventory Management, and Master Data Management, aligned with client needs and best practices.
• Analyze and document existing business processes, identifying opportunities for automation and improvement.
• Configure key MM components such as Purchase Orders, Goods Receipt, Material Master, Vendor Master, and Inventory Movements.
• Implement and optimize procurement workflows, approval processes, and exception handling mechanisms.
• Conduct unit and integration testing, troubleshoot issues, and support end-user training and adoption.
• Optimize material management and procurement cycles to improve efficiency, accuracy, and compliance.
• Create clear and comprehensive documentation, including configuration details, process flows, and troubleshooting guidelines.
• Mentor junior team members and foster knowledge sharing within the team.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor’s Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Proven experience in SAP MM implementation, configuration, and support.
• Strong knowledge of procurement, inventory management, material master, vendor master, and purchasing processes.
• Experience with SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA environments.
• Understanding of integration with other SAP modules (FI, SD, WM, PP) and third-party systems.
• Hands-on experience with purchase orders, goods receipts, invoice verification, and material movements.
• Ability to analyze business processes, identify improvement opportunities, and implement optimized solutions.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills for SAP MM issues.
• Experience in documentation, process flows, configuration guides, and training materials.
• Familiarity with SAP best practices and industry standards in materials management.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work with business stakeholders and IT teams.
• Leadership experience, including mentoring junior consultants and promoting knowledge sharing within the team.

Preferred technical and professional experience

English language proficiency – strong written and verbal communication skills.

Experience with SAP Ariba, SAP Fiori, or SAP Analytics tools.

Familiarity with workflow automation, robotic process automation (RPA), or other digital procurement tools.

Experience with cross-functional project teams and multi-country deployments.

Exposure to vendor management, contract management, or sourcing processes.

Strong presentation and documentation skills for training or stakeholder communications.

Experience using collaboration tools like Jira, Confluence, or SharePoint.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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