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Lead SAP Ariba Consultant

📍 Coimbatore 🏷️ ERP & Business Applications 💰 ₹190,000 / month

About the Role

Saravanampatti in Coimbatore has a Lead SAP Ariba Consultant opening, full time, on site, with an ERP consulting practice implementing procurement systems for enterprise clients. Nine years of experience is the expectation, and this lead role carries direct ownership of the client relationship across a full procurement transformation engagement.

A Day in This Job

The work covers implementing and customizing SAP modules, working with clients to map their procurement and supplier management processes, troubleshooting issues during rollout, and providing post-launch support. Procurement systems touch supplier relationships that matter to a client's bottom line directly, which raises the stakes on getting the configuration right.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead implementation of SAP Ariba modules for client procurement processes
  • Map client business processes onto Ariba's procurement and supplier management structures
  • Troubleshoot issues during rollout and stabilization
  • Provide post-launch support to client procurement teams

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, or a related field is expected, along with a vendor-specific certification and demonstrated hands-on implementation experience with the relevant enterprise software module. The team weighs a track record of completed Ariba implementations heavily for a lead-level hire.

Skills That Matter

  • SAP Ariba at a deep implementation level
  • Procurement process knowledge, not just system configuration
  • Supplier management concepts

Good to Have

Experience with a second procurement or supply chain module, familiarity with supplier onboarding workflows specifically, and any background managing a client relationship through a difficult go-live period without losing trust.

Why This Role

Saravanampatti's ERP consulting cluster in Coimbatore has grown steadily, and this practice's procurement-focused client base gives a lead consultant genuinely deep specialization rather than spreading thin across every SAP module. Naukri Mitra has listed ERP roles from this employer before, and past hires describe the procurement domain knowledge required here as underrated during interviews elsewhere, since a technically correct configuration that ignores real supplier relationship dynamics tends to cause problems after go-live.

The Interview Process

Interviews include a technical round on Ariba configuration and a scenario discussion about a supplier onboarding process that doesn't map cleanly to standard configuration. Candidates who ask about the business reasoning behind a process before proposing a fix tend to interview well.

Benefits

  • Health insurance covering the employee and immediate family
  • Paid time off
  • Performance-linked bonuses
  • Relocation assistance and accommodation support for candidates moving to Coimbatore

Location & Pay

This role is based at Saravanampatti, Coimbatore, pin code 641035, five days a week on site. Pay runs up to ₹1,90,000 a month. The team hopes to fill this seat within six to eight weeks.

Frequently Asked Questions

The core focus is procurement and supplier management, though experience with a second procurement or supply chain module is considered a plus.
Genuinely deep. The procurement-focused client base gives a lead consultant real specialization rather than spreading thin across every SAP module.
A supplier onboarding process that doesn't map cleanly onto standard Ariba configuration, which is part of what's tested during the interview.
Nine years, with the team explicit that a track record of completed Ariba implementations matters more than a directly relevant degree alone.
Pay runs up to ₹1,90,000 a month, and the team hopes to fill the seat within six to eight weeks.
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