Job Description

Management Level

Manager

& Summary

At PwC, our people in business application consulting specialise in consulting services for a variety of business applications, helping clients optimise operational efficiency. These individuals analyse client needs, implement software solutions, and provide training and support for seamless integration and utilisation of business applications, enabling clients to achieve their strategic objectives.




As a SAP consulting generalist at PwC, you will focus on providing consulting services across various SAP applications to clients, analysing their needs, implementing software solutions, and offering training and support for effective utilisation of SAP applications. Your versatile knowledge will allow you to assist clients in optimising operational efficiency and achieving their strategic objectives.
Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member's unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.


Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:


Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system. Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion. Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables. Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same. Effectively mentor others. Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members. Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate. Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

About PwC and SATIC:

South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future.

We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society.

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech and making a difference to real people's lives.

Qualifications and Experience required:

At least 4 years' experience in leading and delivering SAP IBP transformation projects. Experienced and comfortable in working as part of a global team; co creating solutions with consultants located outside of South Africa. Experience in SAP IBP Supply planning, optimizer and order-based planning is key. Identifying enhancement opportunities for our clients and deliver value in each stage of implementation/delivery. Assisting with solutioning and respective functional specification in the overall transformation context. Actively engage with our people to develop junior resources within the firm to enable them to be valued by our clients as experts in their domain. Demonstrate care and commitment to the team and our business Invest in your own personal development goals as a continued learning opportunity. Good understanding of process integration points between planning and execution, in particular with relation to ERP systems.

Responsibilities of the role:

As an SAP Functional Manager, you will play a key role in the following areas:


Support the Technical Practice by taking an active role in the SAP Team. Delivering exceptional client service and solutions across a number of SAP technical areas as functional lead. Work with a global mindset with teams based in the UK, Germany and other Middle Eastern Countries. Playing an active role in the delivery teams to deliver solutions that are on scope, time, quality and budget. Facilitate and lead client workshops focused on Integrated Business Planning (IBP), including requirements gathering, solution design, and process alignment. Develop and maintain functional design documents, perform system configurations, and guide user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure solution quality and business fit. Author detailed integration specifications to support seamless connectivity between IBP and other enterprise systems. Mentor junior consultants and contribute to internal capability development through training, documentation, and knowledge sharing. Support business development efforts by identifying opportunities for value-added services and nurturing relationships within existing client accounts.

Role Requirements:

Responsible for the creation of quality solution documentation, including technical specifications. Good knowledge of the CPI and CPI/DS. Participate in design discussions with client. Support the evaluation of the solution scenarios. Detailing of the technical specifications required to deliver the requirements of the solution. Responsible for identification of RICEFW objects . Ability to provide estimation of effort for functional tasks. Ability to manage your own workload.
Responsible for issue resolution post go-live and transition to support.

Skills

desired

for the role:

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional '.


The PwC Professional focuses on five core attributes; whole leadership, business acumen, technical and digital, global and inclusive, and relationships. We use this framework to recruit, develop and assess our people, at all grades and all areas of our business, because we expect all of our people to be leaders.

Whole leadership

The ability to lead yourself to make a difference and create a positive impact in a responsible, authentic, resilient, inclusive and passionate manner.

Global acumen

The ability to operate and collaborate effectively with a mindset that transcends boundaries and embraces diverse perspectives.

Business acumen

The ability to bring innovation and insight to create distinctive value for clients and PwC.

Relationships

The ability to build relationships of high value which are genuine and meaningful.

Technical capabilities

The ability to apply a range of technical, digital and other professional capabilities to deliver quality and value.

Essential skills & attributes:

SAP IBP Certified is preferable. SAP IBP Supply Planning experience is a must . SAP IBP Optimizer and Order-Based planning is preferable. Has the competence to perform the role effectively . Excellent oral and written communication skills as well as basic presentation skills . Ability to work within a fast-paced & unstructured environment . Must be able to multi-task and effectively and continually prioritise . Excellent time management, communication and organisational skills . Ability to interact efficiently with senior members of the firm across multiple time zones.

Desired Attributes

Ability to outline technical components or issues in a consumable language to non technical audiences. Approachable and personable with the ability to show empathy and understand to clients in complex programs of work becoming a shoulder for support. The ability to work in the unknown and find solutions to issues which may be unique or outside of current specialisations or knowledge bases.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

October 20, 2025