Jaggaer Functional Consultant

The Opportunity

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.
Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.
You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.
Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position SummaryAt Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.
Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.Qualifications

• Experience in consulting, higher education, finance, or accounting
• Relevant experience working on complex team-based engagements in a consulting organization or institution, focused on driving change for results
• A minimum of 4-7 years of business strategy, operations and performance improvement, procurement, payables, sourcing, supplier management, spend analysis, contract management or related experience, either in a consultative or substantial operational role
• Proven ability to design and optimize business processes and to architect business processes across disparate organizations and systems and assessments, along with an understanding of procurement transformation and change management concepts implementation Experience with full cycle
• Experience leading requirements gathering sessions and translating them into customer objectives accordingly recommendation Experience analyzing large data sets and generating
• Experience working within a broader team of functional and technical colleagues working toward a common goal drive projects to completion, respond to project risks, issue resolution, scope challenges and project delays independently, Proven ability to work
• Ability to maintain project documentation utilizing Huron’s project delivery methodology Support multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience communicating project economics, such as budgeted vs. actual hours needed for project completion or forecast accuracy

Qualifications:

• Background knowledge of financial management with ERP Systems (Oracle/PeopleSoft, SAP, Ellucian Banner, Workday, NetSuite)
• Working knowledge of JAGGAER or other packaged procurement and payable application (e.g. SAP Ariba, Coupa, ESM)
• Strong experience with the Microsoft Office suite

Posting CategoryEducationOpportunity TypeRegularCountryIndia