2556 – SAP Technical Specialist

Name: PXL Collective
Price range: $

Reference:: 2556

Posted on: 25 February 2025

We have an excellent opportunity for a SAP Technical Specialist to join our team in Aberdeen or London. The SAP Technical Specialist is the technical expert for all SAP platform matters, responsible for ensuring appropriate levels of support and assuring the development, testing and integrity of the global systems, aligned to security standards. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining positive and collaborative working relationships with key business stakeholders and further developing the role to deliver improved outcomes. This is a hybrid role working a 3/2 pattern (minimum of 3 days onsite in Aberdeen or London).

What you’ll do

Maintains systems documentation, ensuring Knowledge Base articles and IS guides are up to date
Responsible for providing technical assurance of work packages delivered by core vendors for support, development and testing of SAP Platform
Ensures SAP requests and incidents are dealt with in a timely manner and within agreed SLA’s, also securing proper communication to business users throughout the support process
Escalates any problems to SAP 3rd party support, liaising regularly with the vendor and business user to identify resolution actions
Manages system configuration for SAP, ensuring all testing follows company standards, by liaising with 3rd party developers and business users to carry out User Acceptance Testing (UAT) whilst ensuring tests are delivered to plan
Maintains interfaces between SAP and other external systems
Actively participates in the governance processes especially change management working closely with key stakeholders in the Business and IS and providing expert technical guidance
Accountable for ensuring compliance with all IS related processes, policies, and work practices
Ensures 3rd party support vendor develops, deploys, and manages solutions to meet defined business specific needs as defined through the product maps/lifecycles
Liaises with the wider IS organisation and business community to facilitate delivery and resolve any issues
May be required to provide out of hours support via an on-call rota

What to bring

Good planning and execution skills
Experience and in-depth knowledge of managing support, development and testing of SAP systems
Experience of creation of technical and process documentation
Experience of SAP HEC, S4/HANA (role provisioning desirable), Plant Maintenance, HCM and Legacy SAP Technologies (R3)
Strong organisational skills and ability to manage changing priorities
Self-motivated with a continued drive to develop own expertise and knowledge
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and the ability to liaise with various areas of the business to gather requirements for enhancements and to determine if they will add value to the business
Ability to work independently and as part of a team taking responsibility in part or in full for the delivery of SAP solutions over multiple phases
experience of working with a diverse and multi-national application vendor support model or equivalent
Experience of working with IS suppliers, overseeing technical delivery, working closely with multi sourcing and vendor managers
SAP certification (desirable but not necessary)
Experience working with globally deployed systems (desirable but not necessary)

What You’ll Get in Return:

We are committed to recognising and rewarding hard work and offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes (but is not limited to) the following;

Company Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
Private Dental Insurance
Group Income Protection Plan
Group Life Assurance
Cycle to Work Scheme
Prosocial Events
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme

We also believe effective training and development benefits both the individual and the organisation as a whole and contributes to the achievement of the company’s mission. We encourage all our employees to further their skills and experience via various methods of learning. If an employee elects to self-study in their own time, the company will fund the self-study materials and exam fees. Furthermore, once the exam is passed, the employee will be entitled to an incentive bonus.

If you are enthusiastic, willing to always learn and looking for a challenging but rewarding position where you work for a forward-thinking organisation who offer excellent opportunities, please send your CV to talent@prosource.it.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates, so if you have any access needs or may need adjustments in the assessment process - just let us know.

Successful candidates will be subject to background and right to work checks.