Business Systems Analyst SAP Ariba at Albemarle in Banglore

Job description

Be an essential element to a brighter future. We work together to transform essential resources into critical ingredients for mobility, energy, connectivity and health. Join our values-led organization committed to building a more resilient world with people and planet in mind. Our core values are the foundation that make us successful for ourselves, our customers and the planet. Job Description Function Information Technology/Enterprise Business Systems/Ariba Position Overview The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) is responsible for supporting, enhancing, and optimizing enterprise applications and business processes within an assigned functional domain. The BSA serves as a trusted partner to business stakeholders, providing functional expertise, solution analysis, process improvement recommendations, and day-to-day operational support to ensure enterprise systems effectively enable business objectives. The BSA works closely with business users, the Manager Enterprise Systems, Digital Business Partners, technical teams, and third-party service providers to deliver stable, efficient, and scalable technology solutions. This role is responsible for analyzing business requirements, identifying process improvement opportunities, coordinating solution delivery, supporting system enhancements, and ensuring the successful adoption of new capabilities. In addition to operational support responsibilities, the BSA contributes to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to leverage automation, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, and process standardization to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and user experience. Domain Responsibility Summary The Senior Business Systems Analyst, SAP Ariba and Business Network, serves as a senior functional subject matter expert for Albemarle’s Source-to-Pay technology landscape. The role supports SAP Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contracts, Contract Line Items, Ariba Buying and Invoicing, SAP Business Network, supplier enablement, and the integrations between SAP Ariba and SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA. This role partners with Procurement, Accounts Payable, Legal, Finance, Supply Chain, Master Data, Compliance, and IT teams to translate business needs into sustainable system and process solutions. The analyst is responsible for requirements definition, process design, functional solution design, testing, deployment, production support, integration monitoring, issue resolution, system governance, and continuous improvement. Key Responsibilities SAP Ariba Sourcing Serve as a functional subject matter expert for SAP Ariba Sourcing. Support RFI, RFP, RFQ, competitive bidding, and auction processes. Design and maintain sourcing project templates, event templates, questionnaires, content documents, scoring models, approval flows, and team-member rules. Support supplier invitation, registration, participation, bid submission, evaluation, and award processes. Partner with category managers and strategic sourcing teams to improve event standardization, adoption, efficiency, and governance. Support event monitoring, issue resolution, reporting, and user assistance. Advise users on sourcing event structures, bid rules, pricing terms, alternative bids, lots, line items, and award scenarios. Support the transition of sourcing awards into contracts, catalogs, purchasing processes, or other downstream activities. Identify opportunities to increase spend visibility, competitive sourcing coverage, and compliance with sourcing policies. SAP Ariba Contracts Serve as a functional subject matter expert for SAP Ariba Contracts and contract workspace management. Support contract request, authoring, negotiation, review, approval, execution, amendment, renewal, expiration, and closeout processes. Design and maintain contract workspace templates, document templates, clause libraries, tasks, phases, approval workflows, team-member rules, and notification requirements. Partner with Procurement, Legal, Compliance, Finance, and