Overview
SAP Basis Consultant – Leeds, LS11 5AD
Job Title
SAP Basis Consultant
Location
Asda House
Employment Type
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours Per Week
37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
Category
Software Development and Implementation
Closing Date
12 September 2025
Asda are a Cloud First organisation and require a BASIS manager with good experience of operation of SAP systems hosted in SAP RISE to ensure we provide a stable up to date, error free technical landscape for Business Users (Production), Support teams (Production support landscape – Dev and QA) and any other delivery specific environments.
- Defines and agrees KPIs for Function with other Basis Lead and Technical Operations Lead, to meet CoE needs, and align to Non-Functional Requirements and overall CoE Mission
- Identifies areas for process and operational improvement
- Knowledge and experience of SAP cloud solutions, BTP, Hana cloud, Cloud ALM,
- Integration technologies including SLT
- Experience of SAP in a retail environment would be beneficial
- Experience of working with 3rd party support teams with excellent time management and task prioritisation and delegation.
- Excellent problem solving and analysis skills gained from working in a large and complex organisation.
- Experience of SAP upgrades, patching and regular maintenance planning.
- Comfortable working on your own and as part of the SAP COE.
What You’ll Love
- Support the Technical Operations Lead and Environment Manager in controlling the resourcing and other budget / spend for SAP infrastructure and technical operations support.
- Lead SAP Basis in process improvement and automation (ensuring improved efficiency, collaboration, responsiveness, and best in class tooling).
- Manage applications to ensure they are technically monitored and meet NFRs
- Support technical projects and new technical delivery on projects/other initiatives – such as re-platforming, upgrades, patching, performance testing, changes to batch schedule, etc.
- Ensure the services are delivered according to contractual agreements (if applicable) and within SLAs,
- Provide support for contributing to Problem Management activities.
- Provide guidance, direction, and support to SAP projects.
- Participate in major incident duty on a 24×7 rotation.
- Experience of performance testing/resolution of performance issues
- Knowledge of archiving
- Have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage at all levels.
- Open to change, driven by continuous improvement, understanding of ITSM process excellence
- Have a desire and energy to inspire team in, quality delivery, effective collaboration, and have a mindset and personality to resolve and drive through solutions to problems.
- Have the ability to encourage and influence others to seek and create innovative approaches to addressing problems and opportunities.
- Be quality and improvement focussed, with good attention to detail, whilst maintaining a good dose of pragmatism.
- Hybrid working with 3 days per weeks in Asda House
Everything you’ll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
You will also get an excellent benefits package including:
- Discretionary company bonus
- Company pension up to 7% matched
- Company Car allowance of £5,700
- 15% colleague discount in store and online
- Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
- Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves”
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