As part of a unified onboarding approach, you will be providing best practice guidance to our customers during their implementation project, driving product adoption by assisting them to secure a fast and successful Go-Live.
Specific activities include:
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
- Customer Deliverables
- Manage a portfolio of accounts, overseeing customer onboarding, implementation and adoption needs and assisting them to meet their objectives.
- Facilitate the transition from sales cycle to onboarding and project start
- Plan, manage and execute the delivery of a series of customer touchpoints to support and guide the customer during their implementation with an aim to achieve a successful on time go-live
- Validate and capture customer project plans and objectives
- Introduce customers to key resources and set onboarding delivery expectations
- Monitor customer project health, identify early warning signs for risk, utilize proper escalation channels to assist customers during times of need.
- Collaborate on the development of customer facing collaterals/ best practices in alignment with other stakeholders inside and outside the direct team
- Advise on areas of transformation, project and technology readiness
- Lead enablement planning in alignment with the customer’s business goals and identified needs
- Schedule and deliver targeted customer best practice guidance along the customer onboarding lifecycle
- Provide communication and status updates to internal and external stakeholders
- Advise on go-live planning approach
- Other
- Support/Attend customer enablement events as needed
- Continuously enhance your knowledge around topics within the SAPRISE/ GROW portfolio
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Understanding of RISE with SAP & GROW with SAP
- Experience in multiple software implementations as a Project or Account Manager, Consultant, Presales or Product Engineering
- Deep understanding of onboarding lifecycle, from a strategic and tactical perspective
- Deep sense of accountability and ownership
- Knowledge of SAP internal processes around customer management
- Ability to quickly adapt to changing environments with attention to detail while maintaining the “bigger picture”
- Experience working in a global environment and willingness to adjust working hours occasionally
- Comfortable and experienced with delivering content to customers in a 1:1 or 1 to many environment
- Fluent in English / Chinese (oral and written). Additional languages are a plus – Especially Korean
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Minimum of 3 – 5 years of strong experience working with external clients and software implementations.
- History of helping customers navigate through setting up SAP solutions.
- Experience identifying common customer challenges and designing content to address these barriers in a 1:1 and 1:many fashion.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Strong ability to organize, prioritize and execute
- Capability to adapt to change and to meet a demanding workload
- Must be able to maintain a positive, solution oriented and professional manner throughout
- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to credibly present recommendations to senior levels in and outside the SAP organization.
- Ambition to acquire knowledge of our products and processes and be able to communicate and demonstrate their value to our customers
- Willingness and ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with key SAP account team members (CSP and IAE) or SAP Partner support teams
- Able to develop an “outside in” perspective to best represent and address our customer’s needs while maintaining SAP’s interests and objectives