Business Systems Lead

Business Systems Lead

Location:

Houston, TX, US Rio de Janeiro, BR Krakow, PL

Employment type: Employee Place of work: Hybrid Offshore/Onshore: Onshore

TechnipFMC is committed to driving real change in the energy industry. Our ambition is to build a sustainable future through relentless innovation and global collaboration – and we want you to be part of it. You’ll be joining a culture that values curiosity, expertise, and ideas as well as equal opportunities, inclusion, and authenticity. Bring your unique energy to our team of more than 21,000 people worldwide, and discover a rewarding, fulfilling, and varied career that you can take in anywhere you want to go.

Job Purpose

The Business Software Lead is accountable for the business ownership, strategic direction and successful adoption of Ariba Sourcing (and other assigned applications). This role serves as the primary liaison between Procurement, Sourcing and IT to ensure the assigned applications are designed, delivered, maintained and enhanced in scalable, complaint and value-driven manner. This role provides functional leadership for the application capabilities, proactively evaluates enhancement opportunities, maintain a software roadmap and ensures a cohesive end-to-end user journey across all application workflows.

This role can be located in Houston, TX, Krakow (POL_Krakow), and Rio de Janeiro (BRA_RiodeJaneiro)

Job Description

• Acts as the business owner for Ariba Sourcing (and other assigned applications)
• Defines, maintains and executes the software roadmap aligned with company and functional strategies & objectives.
• Partners with key stakeholders to ensure software configurations support end-to-end business processes and user journeys.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for IT, translating business requirement into clear, action ale functional specifications.
• Oversees business software incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement for assigned softwares.
• Establishes and tracks KPIs to measure user adoption, performance and business value realization.
• Collaborates closely with business teams and change management to enable successful deployments and sustained adoption.
• Proactively evaluates enhancement opportunities and incorporates them into the evolving software roadmap.
• Acts as a subject matter expert (SME) for software capabilities as they relate to supported business processes.

You are meant for this job if:

• • Bachelor’s degree in related field
• • 5 to 7 years of experience
• • Strong functional knowledge of SAP Ariba Software including Sourcing
• • Proven ability to lead cross-function initiatives without direct authority
• • Excellent stakeholder communication, facilitation and executive presentation skills

Skills

Business Process ImprovementSoftware ConfigurationSoftware DocumentationSoftware TestingTechnology Evaluation and SelectionAgile/SAFEAgile MethodologiesDigital Strategy and Planning

Being a global leader in the energy industry requires an inclusive and diverse environment. TechnipFMC promotes equal opportunities and inclusion by ensuring equal opportunities to all ages, races, ethnicities, religions, gender expressions, disabilities, or all other pluralities. We celebrate who you are and what you bring. Every voice matter and we encourage you to add to our culture.

TechnipFMC respects the rights and dignity of those it works with and promotes adherence to internationally recognized human rights principles for those in its value chain.

Learn more about TechnipFMC and find other open positions by visiting our Career Page.

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Date posted: Jul 14, 2026 Requisition number: 18262

Nearest Major Market: Houston