Project Role : Custom Software Engineer

Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.

Must have skills : SAP MM Materials Management

Good to have skills : NA

Minimum 12 Year(s) Of Experience Is Required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:

As an SAP MM Indirect Procurement Consultant, you will own a module workstream end to end, from design decisions through to cutover, leading a small team while remaining hands-on for Indirect Procurement within the Procurement tower of the DRS SAP programme. The role exists to own indirect and services procurement, channelling a large and fragmented requester population into controlled, catalogue-first buying.

You carry the workstream delivery commitment: defensible estimates, early disclosure of risk, and diagnosis to root cause rather than escalation. You are expected to make AI a measurable productivity lever for your team, governed by a defined validation standard.

You lead a small delivery team and hold the working relationship with the business process owners for this module, while remaining hands-on in configuration.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Scope & Decision Rights: Own the module design. You determine configuration approach, estimates and sequencing for the workstream and approve the deliverables of the engineers you lead cross-module design changes are agreed with the process area lead.

Self-Service Procurement: Configure catalogue-based and free-text requisitioning, including catalogue integration, requisition templates and the requester experience in Fiori.

Services Procurement: Configure lean services procurement in S/4HANA, including service purchase orders, service entry sheets, limit orders and their approval and acceptance flow.

Account Assignment & Budget Control: Configure account assignment to cost centre, WBS element and internal order, and the budget or commitment controls that apply to indirect spend.

Spend Channelling & Compliance: Work with the business on catalogue coverage, preferred supplier routing and tail-spend handling so that policy is enforced systemically rather than procedurally.

Integration & Dependencies: Work with Finance for cost assignment and invoice processing, with the Ariba team where catalogue and buying content is managed there, and with Master Data for service and material master.

Workstream Delivery Ownership: Estimate, sequence and deliver the module workstream against milestones, enforcing the quality gates for configuration, specifications, test evidence and defect containment.

Issue Diagnosis & Corrective Action: Lead resolution where indirect spend bypassing catalogues or approval queues stalling a large requester population places a milestone at risk: diagnose across configuration, data and integration layers, evaluate options against time and risk, and drive the agreed course to closure.

AI-Enabled Delivery & Joule Agent Specification: Build and maintain the reusable prompt and accelerator set for spend pattern analysis, approval bottleneck detection and scenario test generation, define the validation standard applied within the team, and evidence the effort saved. Use SAP Joule for Consultants as standard practice and curate its grounding content for this module. Identify Joule agent use cases, write the specification and supply the process context the AI and AIDLC tower builds, and you validate the result against the business outcome.

Team Leadership & Mentoring: Lead a small delivery team, allocate work to capability, review deliverables before release, and develop engineers in both module depth and delivery discipline.

Stakeholder Management: Lead requirement and design workshops with business process owners, present options, impacts and risks in business terms, and defend scope where change threatens the committed date.

Professional & Technical Skills:

Must-Have Skills

Self-Service & Catalogue Procurement: Design and configuration ownership of catalogue-based requisitioning, OCI catalogue integration and free-text requisition handling.

Services Procurement: Deep expertise in lean services procurement in S/4HANA including service entry sheets, limit orders and acceptance workflow.

Account Assignment: Strong expertise in account assignment categories and their interaction with Controlling objects and commitment management.

Approval Design: Demonstrated experience configuring approval and release flows for a wide requester population without creating bottlenecks.

Compliance Orientation: Capability to design controls that are enforceable in practice rather than policy statements that are bypassed.

Hands-On Currency: Current and continuous hands-on configuration work on the primary skill, with no sustained break from build activity in the last 18 months.

AI-Enabled Delivery: Demonstrated use of AI to raise workstream throughput through prompt sets, accelerators or analysis routines adopted by others, governed by a defined validation standard.

SAP Joule for Consultants & Agent Specification: Working use of SAP Joule for Consultants, including grounding it in client-specific content, together with the capability to identify Joule agent use cases in the module and specify them for a dedicated AI capability to build. Where prior Joule exposure is absent, working proficiency is expected within 90 days of joining.

Evidence of AI Adoption: Demonstrable adoption of AI in delivery work, evidenced through AI assistant use, reusable accelerators, automation of recurring delivery tasks or codified playbooks adopted by others, together with the judgement to verify generated output before it is acted on.

Workstream Management: Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of an SAP module workstream: estimation, milestone commitment, defect management, integration test and cutover.

Team Leadership: Demonstrated leadership of a small delivery team and direct ownership of business stakeholder relationships, including contested scope discussions.

Good to Have Skills

SAP Ariba Buying and Invoicing

SAP Fieldglass for contingent labour

SAP Concur touchpoints for expense-adjacent spend

Central requisitioning in S/4HANA Central Procurement

Additional Information:

A 15-year full-time education is required, as stated in the approved demand record.

Minimum 12 years of experience on the primary skill, as specified in the approved demand record.

Hands-on configuration work on the primary skill current at the point of application.

Workstream ownership across at least two full lifecycle SAP implementations or large rollouts.

Evidenced examples of AI-assisted delivery methods adopted by other members of the team.