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Job Description

Albemarle is hiring for a Business Systems Analyst-Ariba. This position is hybrid and located in Bangalore.

Location

India

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 secure, 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

- Serve as the senior functional subject matter expert across SAP Ariba Sourcing, Contracts, Contract Line Items, Buying and Invoicing, SAP Business Network, supplier enablement, and related SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA integrations.
- Partner with Procurement, Accounts Payable, Legal, Finance, Supply Chain, Master Data, Compliance, and IT stakeholders to gather requirements, define standardized processes, translate needs into functional designs, and recommend sustainable solutions.
- Configure, maintain, and govern sourcing events, contract workspaces and line items, guided buying, catalogs, approval workflows, business rules, templates, supplier processes, and purchasing and invoicing controls.
- Support end-to-end Source-to-Pay processes, including sourcing, contracting, requisitioning, ordering, receiving, service entry, invoicing, reconciliation, exceptions, and contract compliance.
- Lead supplier onboarding and enablement activities, including connectivity strategy, transaction testing, cutover, adoption monitoring, and resolution of supplier account, routing, document, and data issues.
- Monitor SAP Ariba, SAP Business Network, Cloud Integration Gateway, middleware, and SAP transactions; diagnose failures, coordinate correction and reprocessing, confirm successful completion, and drive root-cause elimination and automation.
- Support the full solution delivery lifecycle, including fit-gap analysis, functional design, configuration review, data preparation, testing, defect resolution, deployment, go-live, hypercare, releases, upgrades, and production support.
- Maintain solution and data governance, access controls, documentation, runbooks, reporting, and operational metrics; improve contract utilization, spend visibility, pricing accuracy, process compliance, and data quality.
- Analyze recurring issues and business processes to identify opportunities for simplification, standardization,



analytics, workflow, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, improved user experience, and touchless processing.
- Coordinate priorities and issue resolution across business teams, Enterprise Systems leadership, Digital Business Partners, technical teams, AMS providers, vendors, suppliers, and SAP support while promoting adoption and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications Required

- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Human Resources, or a related discipline.
- Eight or more years of experience in procurement technology, Source-to-Pay, Procure-to-Pay, SAP, enterprise applications, or business systems analysis.
- Five or more years of hands-on functional experience with SAP Ariba.
- Experience with SAP Ariba Sourcing, Contracts, Buying and Invoicing, and SAP Business Network.
- Experience supporting integrations between SAP Ariba and SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA.
- Experience supporting production transaction monitoring, failure analysis, issue resolution, and reprocessing coordination.
- Participated in at least three full-cycle SAP Ariba implementations or major deployments.
- Served in a lead or senior functional role for at least two SAP Ariba go-lives.
- Experience supporting the complete delivery lifecycle, including design, configuration validation, testing, data preparation, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to production support.
- Experience supporting a live SAP Ariba environment after implementation.
- Experience gathering and documenting business requirements.

- Experience supporting system enhancements, projects, or technology implementations.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Benefits of Joining Albemarle

- Competitive compensation

- Comprehensive benefits package

- A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

We are partners to one another in pioneering new ways to be better for ourselves, our teams, and our communities. When you join Albemarle, you become our most essential element and you can anticipate competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and resources that foster your well-being and fuel your personal growth. Help us shape the future, build with purpose and grow together.

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