Engagement Manager - Sydney jobs at Sap in Germany

This role can be located in Sydney/Brisbane.

What you’ll do:

As a
Senior Enterprise Architect,you will develop a comprehensive enterprise architecture model for our customers aligning with their enterprise goals, collaborate with virtual account teams (VAT) as a transformation partner and lead activities such as:

• Guide customers through their cloud journey (with special focus on adopt and derive), starting with Enterprise archetypes and scaling digitally.
• Provide enterprise architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure that every customer benefits from SAP‘s cloud qualities.
• Act as the Transformation Partner for the CIO or other CxO, driving architecture effectiveness.
• Support adoption, identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks.
• Align customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption and promote SAP best practices.
• Provide customer context to all teams, enhancing customer proximity and experience.
• Articulate the value of the designed target architecture and possible intermediate/ transition steps as well as provide guidance on the realization of the identified benefits
• Serve as a trusted advisor, ensuring secure, reliable, and flexible cloud environments for mission-critical processes.

Transformation, Architectural & Solution Skills:

• Experience delivering enterprise business transformation projects and aligning customer priorities with target architecture and roadmap.
• Knowledge of the SAP Solution Portfolio and Enterprise Architecture Framework (North Star).
• Experience with Business Technology Platform components (application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, AI) and practical experience with S/4HANA applications.
• Strong understanding of Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, familiarity with SAP LeanIX, Signavio, and Cloud ALM.
• Knowledge of SAP's Business AI roadmap, including identifying use cases and piloting AI-driven solutions to enhance business processes.
• Expertise in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies.

Must-Have Requirements:

• 5+ years in customer experience roles (e.g., Program Manager, Architect), with experience in end-to-end architectural design for hybrid solution landscapes.
• Knowledge of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and Toolset, and experience with BTP components and services such as application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities.
• S/4HANA technical or/and SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience.
• Proficiency in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies and Clean Core principles.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (in English) at the senior management within an IT team and across business functions.
• Mindset for Strategic Thinking, Continuous Learning, and Business Acumen.

Nice-to-Have Requirements:

• Knowledge of on-premise and corresponding SAP cloud solutions.
• Professional training and certification (e.g., SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework featured by LeanIX EAM, SAP Certified Professional-Enterprise Architect [P_SAPEA_2023], TOGAF) as a plus.

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We win with inclusion

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Job Segment:Cloud, Information Technology, IT Architecture, ERP, Developer, Technology

Job Overview:

Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter Expert: Be the key advocate for partner digital marketing initiatives, ensuring consistent communication of goals and progress to senior leadership.
• Content Creation and Strategy: Collaborate with content teams to develop engaging and relevant content for web, blogs, email, social media, and paid ads.
• Project Management: Own and track multiple digital marketing projects at once, focusing on business impact and partner experience.
• Enhance the partner digital experience, ensuring seamless integration into SAP’s digital customer journey for optimized engagement and demand generation
• Drive marketing strategy for the partner portal platform, ensuring clear articulation of partner value and consistent positioning in collaboration with the Partner Ecosystem Success and CPIT teams.
• Create and execute global marketing campaigns and enablement materials that promote adoption, usage, and awareness of key portal features, updates, and partner resources.
• Serve as the strategic marketing liaison between marketing teams, translating partner platform capabilities into useful marketing opportunities with our partners as the audience.

Qualifications and skills:

• College degree (marketing or communications discipline preferred)
• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Deep knowledge of partner marketing, including partner programs and execution
• Background in web and/or customer journey work expected
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills required, with experience
• Strong organizational and multitasking proficiency with the ability to manage several projects at once.
• Excellent writing, presentation and communication skills
• Background in brand marketing or recruitment a plus

We win with inclusion

Seattle
Bellevue

Work Area: Information TechnologyCareer Status: Professional
Employment Type: Limited Full Time
Career Level: T3
Hiring Manager: Jorge Marzolla
Recruiter Name: Thais Nadim

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary contact for private cloud customers for delivery topics, technology discussions and other contractual entitlements for technical components as per contract.
• Establish good relationships with all customer-facing roles in SAP to provide One SAP experience.
• Be part of the SAP overall governance model set up for each customer.
• Active internal and external stakeholder management.
• Responsible for leading technical delivery and management of system landscape as a representative of SAP Enterprise Cloud Services.
• Accountability as the single orchestrator for End2End delivery from SAP Enterprise Cloud Services.
• Introduce managed services scope, roles and responsibilities as part of customer onboarding to establish and strengthen the partnership.
• Develop strategic technical engagement via service planning with clients by acting as a trusted advisor to establish a focus on core services delivered.
• Proactive management of operational security risk by ensuring maintenance activities are addressed promptly, making customers aware of compliance reports and closure of risk letters.
• Act as a trusted advisor in safeguarding and sharing innovation roadmap with the customer.
• Maintain close collaboration with ECS (Enterprise Cloud Services) Technical Operations to drive operational topics including ticket handling.
• Proactively add value to customer (business) through aligning VAT (virtual account team) initiatives
• Guide customers on key topics like Business Continuity, Security & Compliance.
• Maintain customer satisfaction through proactive issue mitigation and escalation management.
• Support customer critical situations and de-escalations
• Protect ECS revenue by being proactive in managing balance statement reviews, supporting contract renewals and other revenue leakage possibilities.

Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Information Management, Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
• High proficiency in customer communications and presentations.
• Strong understanding of SAP solutions, including S/4HANA architecture, conversion, migration paths, and tools.
• Proficiency in English is mandatory; Portuguese is a plus.

Work Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience of SAP Technical Administration with SAP Basis skills.
• Customer-facing SAP Technical Consulting experience.
• Experience in solution design, enterprise architecture, and SAP implementation it’s a plus
• Knowledge of SAP RISE or ECS experience is advantageous.
• Experience in technical project planning, implementation, and configuration it’s a plus.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong background in SAP solutions, technology, and products, and cloud technology.
• Required ability to work effectively as part of a virtual, dynamic, and dispersed team. Mandatory.
• Good understanding of cloud architecture and IT technical infrastructure.
• Strong customer focus, networking, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills. Essential.
• Must have. Competency in managing multiple engagements.

Preferred Skills:

• Certifications in SAP Basis/Application/ABAP, Project Management, or Hyperscalers (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Knowledge of Project Management, IT Service Management standards (e.g., ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and methodologies for SAP IT operations.

What You Bring:

• High interest in cloud topics and motivation to learn.
• Excellent communication skills and experience in customer-facing roles
• Ability to switch communication styles for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Pro-active problem-solving attitude and customer-first mindset.
• Experience working in international and global virtual matrix organizations

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

What You’ll Do

As a CSM within the SAP Academy for Customer Success, you will be responsible to:

• Successfully complete a 10-month learn-apply program, which includes classroom phases and field phases with your CSM team, that enhances your support in the CSM role, a critical customer-facing function within our dynamic Customer Success board area.
• Immerse yourself in multi-dimensional, experiential learning with a focus on digital transformation, global intelligence, human skills, business and technology acumen, solution/industry knowledge, and strategy/tools/process.
• Enhance skills around your solution portfolio, managing customer retention, and driving value realization.
• Receive onboarding in your local market with on-the-job training and mentoring by a senior CSM professional in the field. You will have the opportunity to work both behind the scenes and directly with customers.
  

CSM focus areas

SAP Finance & Spend Management (F&S) –Knowledge in key areas such as accounting, procurement, and supplier management, focused on boosting visibility, cutting costs, and improving efficiency.

• S/4HANA Finance
• Finance & Quote to Cash(Q2C)

What You Bring:

• 2–3 years of experience supporting customers and driving business transformation, ideally in consulting or account management.
• Proven ability to deliver strategic guidance and solutions that drive customer success and long-term value, coupled with experience in resolving issues and managing escalations to ensure satisfaction and business continuity.
• A cooperative and productive approach to working relationships, internally and externally.
• A strong ability to quickly learn new concepts, adapt to changing environments, and apply knowledge to deliver results.
• An understanding of AI fundamentals, uses, and ethics, to identify business problems solvable with AI.
• A resilient mindset, embracing challenges with optimism and consistently striving for growth and success.
• Strong Business Acumen, including demonstrated knowledge of business processes and/or industries.
• Proficiency in English and Spanish to effectively engage with our global and local network
  

We are planning a practical and immersive portion of our program, which will likely involve participants spending four (4) weeks, spread across two trips, in San Ramon, California. This experience is designed to provide unparalleled hands-on learning and networking opportunities. *Please note the in-person component is still in the planning phase, and the final decision will be confirmed by the first quarter of 2026. We will ensure that this information is communicated promptly, and that sufficient time is provided for necessary preparations.

During intensive phases of the program, it is critical that all participants are fully engaged and present to ensure maximum learning and success. As such, vacation will not be approved during some critical times of the program.

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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Job Segment:Supply Chain Manager, Logistics, ERP, Supply Chain, Payroll, Operations, Technology, Finance

• Strong customer engagement skills to develop into a Trusted Advisor within an large, enterprise client

• Service delivery understanding and value-management mindset, with focus on project-managing PE services delivery as TQM: resourcing, staffing, scope mgmt, risk and issues mgmt, escalation management.

• Understanding an overall enterprise architecture across private cloud, SaaS, and on-premise solutions including integration

• Working as a core member of a virtual account team and orchestrating cross-account internal governance.

• Analysis of customer situation and requirements, including business requirements, program/project, IT, transformational, architecture, development, infrastructure, and operational topics

• Engagement governance, executive reporting & presentations

• Gain or have previous experience in design, implementation, and change management projects

• Facilitation, negotiation, and de-escalation skills

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent tertiary study

• 0-3 years' work experience with customer facing roles

• Team player with ability to work independently and take ownership of assigned tasks • Good listener with excellent communication skills, empathetic, collaborative

• Resourceful self-starters with strong interpersonal skills who are eager learners

• Interested in technology, innovation, and how digital platforms can solve business challenges

• Problem-solvers who are ambitious, passionate, resilient, proactive, open-minded, and able to manage pressur

• Fluent both in English and Japanese

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

• Learn and understand the Customer Services & Delivery portfolio for the respective solution areas and delivers according to service specifications

• Conduct job rotations relevant to the intended role with various teams within the business whilst meeting performance requirements

• Case studies, classroom and self-paced learnings with a mix of technical and soft skill topics and on the job training

• Work on relevant projects that demonstrate your communication and interpersonal skills, as well as a strong work ethic that delivers high quality outcomes

• Demonstrate problem solving, time management, and communication skills through a range of activities during training and on the job rotations

• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Display effective communication skills to handle and explain customer situations (to both business end users and SAP technical/ functional consultants)

• Adapt to knowledge on new technologies in a consistently dynamic and changing environment

• Be responsible for driving the clean core on BTP, innovation adoption and business transformation at scale for customer

• Work with partners, customers and internal SAP teams to enforce adoption of Rise with SAP methodology and associated tools like CALM, Signavio, LeanIX, BTP etc. to make the best usage of the investment of end customers

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our

Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

Accelerate Cloud Revenue Growth -Expedite transformative sales engagements with domain expertise

• Build and accelerate a healthy R4Q pipeline aligned with the designated segment
• Increase deal velocity as an expert and progress opportunities effectively
• Grow SAP’s strategic footprint in industries with ideal customers and maturity stage

The VAT to drive business outcomes

• Understand and focus on the customer’s business goals and desired outcomes
• Articulate the expected solution value to the customer to achieve their outcomes
• Bring in domain expertise to accelerate and expand transformative sales motions
• through collaboration with account teams and Partners

continued path to success

• Support renewals and expansions by recognising the customer's needs and value
• Secure Path to Deploy and Usage by paving the way for incremental consumption
• Ensure ongoing success to realise sustainable customer lifetime value (CLTV)

SKILLS & WORK EXPERIENCE:

• At least 10 years of professional work experience in a Client Management role

(Partner Director/AE)

• Results-driven and highly familiar with a Software / Serviced Sales environment
• Excellent conceptual, written, and verbal communication skills
• Excellent negotiation, facilitation and influencing skills at C-Level
• Team-oriented: able to build strong relationships at every level of an organisation and

is a strong motivator.

• Understands IT challenges and opportunities at an operational level
• Has developed, communicated and delivered large-scale transformation road maps

and business cases and programs.

• Can communicate such roadmaps, plans and programs to C-level Stakeholders.
• Can conceptually translate strategic business requirements into business capabilities
• Can create and communicate the unique value proposition of an Eco-System client proposal
• Takes a Customer Lifecycle lens to the transformational journey
• Can successfully identify, engage, and manage key client stakeholders and create the necessary Governance structure for proactive management across the customer

journey

• Can successfully engage in a matrix Value Account Team environment, across Sales

and Services and Eco-system Act as a Thought Leader and Transformation Coach

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor equivalent

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What You Bring

We are planning a practical and immersive portion of our program, which will have participants spend between 4 and 6 weeks, spread across two trips, in San Ramon, California. This experience is designed to provide unparalleled hands-on learning and networking opportunities. *Please note that this is still in the planning phase, and the final decision will be confirmed by the first quarter of 2026. We will ensure that this information is communicated promptly and that sufficient time is provided for necessary preparations.

During intensive phases of the program, it is critical that all participants are fully engaged and present to ensure maximum learning and success. As such, vacation will not be approved during some critical times of the program.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our

Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.