SAP Trainee

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

The SAP Consultant Trainee will support the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of SAP systems under the guidance of senior consultants. The role involves learning core SAP modules, understanding business processes, and assisting in delivering solutions that align with organizational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Assist in the configuration, testing, and documentation of SAP modules (such as MM, SD, FI, CO, or HCM).

Support data migration, system integration, and troubleshooting activities.

Collaborate with business users to gather and analyze requirements.

Participate in user training, system testing, and go-live support.

Learn and apply SAP best practices, methodologies, and tools.

Prepare reports and maintain documentation related to SAP projects.

Stay updated with new SAP functionalities and industry trends.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Willingness to Learn: Eager to develop new skills and gain hands-on experience with SAP systems and business processes.

Analytical Thinking: Able to understand problems, look for patterns, and find logical solutions.

Communication Skills: Can express ideas clearly in writing and speaking, and feel comfortable working with others.

Teamwork: Enjoys working in a team, sharing ideas, and supporting others to achieve common goals.

Time Management: Can organize work, follow instructions, and complete tasks on time.

Adaptability: Open to learning about new technologies, tools, and ways of working.

Positive Attitude: Curious, motivated, and ready to take on new challenges in a professional setting.

Technical Skills

Basic Computer Knowledge: Comfortable using Microsoft Office tools like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Interest in Technology and Business: Curious about how software helps companies manage operations like finance, sales, or logistics.

Data Handling: Able to work with data in spreadsheets and understand basic data organization.

Attention to Detail: Careful when checking information and ensuring accuracy.

Problem Solving: Able to think logically and help identify solutions when something doesn't work as expected.

Optional Advantage (Not Required):

Basic understanding of how companies run their main business processes (such as purchasing, sales, accounting, or HR).

Familiarity with any ERP systems or business software is helpful but not required.

Basic knowledge of programming or databases is a plus, but training will be provided.

Personal Qualities

Eager to Grow: Interested in building a career in business and technology consulting.

Reliable and Responsible: Can be trusted to follow through on commitments and maintain confidentiality.

Customer-Focused: Understands the importance of helping others and delivering good service.

Collaborative: Works well in groups and values feedback from others.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.