WHAT WE OFFER

Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. Apply now!

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

SAP solutions are the backbone of the most successfully run businesses worldwide: today more than 50% of the world‘s business transactions touch an SAP system. Altogether, they offer a universe of lucrative employment opportunities with increasing demand year after year.  Knowing how to develop, market, consult or install SAP allows you to make a huge impact into the way companies do business – increasing efficiency, innovating new business models and creating business value. Successful candidates will develop the skills to create, manage and execute a plan that supports an SAP solution with a high degree of customer satisfaction.

The Cloud HCM Associate Consultant (Nearshore) will be a member of our Solution Delivery Center (SDC) organization. The SDC is the integrated, remote delivery arm of SAP consulting services, with strength of over 2000 team members. From our near shore and offshore centers, our global talent pool of consultants deliver software and services to customers through both factory and traditional people based approaches. Our team drives value and continuous improvement for our customers through the use of operationally sound processes and basic quality system fundamentals.

Developing our consultants through training, certifications and skill expansion opportunities are key priorities of SDC’s success and offers our people long-term career growth opportunities.

Our Pittsburgh based near-shore center expands SAP’s delivery capabilities within the North American region. We provide SAP’s customers access to the best global network of consultants with expertise in SAP’s latest technologies. The Pittsburgh near shore center is a sophisticated Service & Knowledge organization providing unique capabilities to SAP’s customers in North America and around the globe.

 EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS :

• PARTICIPATE IN INITIAL TRAINING AND ACQUIRE CERTIFICATIONS IN SAP CLOUD HCM PRODUCTS, TECHNOLOGIES AND METHODOLOGIES
• SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATE IN SAP CUSTOMER IMPLEMENTATIONS THROUGH: PREPARE, REALIZE, VERIFY AND LAUNCH PHASES AND MAINTAIN A HIGH DEGREE OF CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
• FOLLOW BEST-PRACTICES AND STANDARDS TO CREATE THE TECHNICAL DESIGN FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION BASED ON THE SOLUTION DESIGN DOCUMENT BY THE LOB CONSULTANT
• PERFORM APPLICATION CONFIGURATION USING THE TOOLS AND FEATURES OF THE PRODUCT LIKE RULES, WORKFLOWS ETC.
• Conduct Quality Assurance/ Feasibility services
• Master and maintain detailed knowledge of SAP Cloud HCM product-suite configuration options
• Liaison with field consultants & offshore teams for project delivery bridging the gap for localization knowledge & time-zone difference
• Work with LOB Consultants and offshore team to complete implementation projects within budget/time, ensuring high level of customer satisfaction and adoption
• Guide and provide assistance to team members nearshore and offshore, on a variety of topics.
• Ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment, manage multiple tasks, work in a team environment, understand and be responsive to project and customer needs.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Graduate of an accredited university with a Bachelors or Masters degree in: INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE or other relevant degree.
• STRONG PREFERENCE FOR COMPLETION OF SAP COURSE OR PROJECT WORK THROUGH ACADEMICS.  EXPERIENCE WITH SUCCESSFACTORS A PLUS.
• Must be able to work as a team player, yet have the ability to work independently.
• Analytical, results-driven and have a solution oriented approach.
• Possess exceptional interpersonal and communication skills including verbal, written presentation and listening.
• Open to travel up to 20%

 Functional Skills:

• MUST HAVE A TECHNICAL BACKGROUND AND MINDSET
• HCM FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE PREFERRED.
• XML SKILLS REQUIRED
• UNDERSTANDING OF RELATIONAL DATABASE CONCEPTS AND SQL
• Business requirement analysis and design
• Cloud concepts and understanding

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2 to 3 years of relevant work experience in a corporate environment through internships or recent work experience.
• Prior experience involving client/customer interaction is a plus

*SAP IS NOT OFFERING INTERNATIONAL RELOCATION BENEFITS FOR THIS ROLE CURRENTLY

*SAP IS CURRENTLY NOT OFFERING VISA SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE

*THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE MUST BE BASED IN, OR RELOCATE TO, PITTSBURGH

WE ARE SAP

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.

OUR INCLUSION PROMISE

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.

SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Americas: Careers.NorthAmerica@sap.com or Careers.LatinAmerica@sap.com, APJ: Careers.APJ@sap.com, EMEA: Careers@sap.com.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability: Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

 Requisition ID:296641 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 20% | Career Status: Graduate | Employment Type: Regular Full Time  | Additional Locations: 

• Graduate of an accredited university with a Bachelors or Masters degree in: Business Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science or other relevant degree.
• STRONG PREFERENCE FOR COMPLETION OF SAP COURSE OR PROJECT WORK THROUGH ACADEMICS.  EXPERIENCE WITH SUCCESSFACTORS A PLUS.
• Must be able to work as a team player, yet have the ability to work independently.
• Analytical, results-driven and have a solution oriented approach.
• Possess exceptional interpersonal and communication skills including verbal, written presentation and listening.
• Open to travel up to 20%

WORK

• 2 to 3 years of relevant work experience in a corporate environment through internships or recent work experience.
• Prior experience involving client/customer interaction is a plus

• HCM FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE PREFERRED.
• XML SKILLS REQUIRED
• UNDERSTANDING OF RELATIONAL DATABASE CONCEPTS AND SQL
• Business requirement analysis and design
• Cloud concepts and understanding

SAP is one of the biggest business software companies in the world. We collaborate every day to help make the world run better and improve people's lives. Every day, we help companies and organizations of all sizes and industries to run their businesses profitably, to adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.