Senior Consultant

Rizing is a privately held multi-million dollar international company fully committed to providing leading SAP functional and technical services to our customers. We provide best in-class solutions to meet the global demand for SAP consulting, implementation services, and products by leveraging our industry expertise to help companies run better. For companies seeking to transform their business through SAP software, Rizing combines the scale and stability of a global company able to take on more complex projects with the expertise, focus, and attention of a boutique firm. We offer specialized services in:

- Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Geospatial services
- Human Capital Management (HCM) through on-premise HCM and SuccessFactors
- Consumer Industries (CI) for Retail, Fashion, Consumer Products and Wholesale

If you value a culture that respects diversity, individual courage, integrity, excellence, and promotes team collaboration, Rizing may be right for you.

**Description**:
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The Senior Consultant plays a key role on the project team; either by running small projects, Integrating and leading portions of a large project, or being a team member on a project. She/he drives the analysis and process finalization and resolves process and technical issues. The Senior Consultant performs the role of a Team Leader and ensures the team delivers high quality service and high customer satisfaction. As a Team Leader, the Senior Consultant will be involved in preparing the detailed level plan for his/her functional/technical area. The Senior Consultant will also assist in business development activities by providing proposal inputs.

In a Team Lead role, the Senior Consultant will ensure that the project tasks continue to address the needs of the customer and fit within the overall scope of the project, and are completed on time and within the budget. When issues surface that could change the scope of the project, the Senior Consultant should report to the Project Manager and discuss the impact of these changes with the customer. He/She is also expected to invest time in the professional development of other consultants through coaching and mentoring.

**Essential Functions**:
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1) Engage with the customer by:

- Leading customer engagement/conversations in business language and identifying the customer requirements
- Analysing customer business processes and SAP solution design. Moving logically and creatively from facts to conclusions
- Leading process design workshops, configuration/development and assisting customers in testing cycles
- Demonstrating creativity and thought leadership, and using experience in substantiating the proposed solutions to the customer
- Writing specifications and working with developers where required
- Maintaining and expanding customer contact at high levels and building credible relationships with key customer personnel by consistently delivering assigned tasks on time with high quality
- Establishing self as the go-to person/”Advisor” for individual field of expertise, for both customers and colleagues
- Managing customer and company expectations
- Participating in pre-sales engagements - demonstrated ability to connect with customers when discussing best practices and SAP functionality

2) Provide Leadership by:

- Deployment of consultants in the preparation of Blueprint Documents, Specifications, Business Process Procedures, Test scenarios, End User Documentation and User Manuals
- Using appropriate implementation methodology and tools in a project
- Propagating the attune culture through actions

**Essential Functions (Continued)**:
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3) Invest time in the professional development of other consultants through coaching and mentoring and act as a role model through dedication to customer service, problem solving and demonstrating a highlevel of capability. Provide feedback to Consultants/Associate Consultants for improvement in their performance.

4) Work on more than one engagement at a time. Manage small engagements or a portion of a large engagement.
5) Understand customer requirements and assist in selling additional business. Work closely with attune sales force to create and define consulting projects and ensure that the customer's overall business
objectives and needs are translated into well-defined and justified projects. This includes preparing work plans and contributing to proposals that describe the process used to meet the customer's needs; includes deliverables, timelines and estimates of the costs and resources required.
6) Assist in the development and implementation of the project plan. This includes drafting the project plan for their functional area (scope, deliverables, timelines and resources) and preparing and assisting in the preparation of individual work plans.
7) Continuously develop SAP core skills, IS-specific skills and cross functional expertise and business knowledge based on accumulated experience and identify new business oppor