The Partner Management Organization has the following priorities:
- Build and operate a world-class, efficient, and reliable organization to support our partner-delivered customers' journey toward their next-generation business
- Help SAP customers realize the innovation power of SAP HANA and the SAP Cloud on a continuous basis
- Accelerate innovations on the SAP HANA platform (SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, industries, and high value apps)
- Ensure the provisioning of system landscapes, installation of applications, and performance of upgrades & migrations by partners
- Provide project management and technology consulting for all partner-delivered ECS Projects
- Act as the main interface to the customer project team to ensure effective communication
The Role:
As Governance and Program Manager you are responsible for the following tasks:
- Managing the relations with partners and the customer-facing teams at SAP.
- Managing partner-delivered engagements (e.g., ECS partner onboarding, sales-to-delivery handover process, and Internal customer engagement handover process).
- Solving real-world issues on service delivery while having a firm understanding of the contractual obligations, legal aspects, process & operational know-how; not deviating from the technical architecture.
- Responsible to devise innovative solutions after analyzing customer scenarios/requests
- Manage documentation of ECS Partner delivery process and governance
- Defining operational procedures & processes with the partner, based on SAP ECS standards
- Ensure knowledge transfer and enablement of partners and SAP Internal Teams
- Drive the continuous improvement of delivery procedures
- Knowledge management of Partner collaboration tools
- Become a single point of contact for all non-technical topics and service delivery, being in continuous alignment with the partner and responsible for the program management from build to run and also during the lifecycle of the customer
- Deliver onsite presence to the partner/customer site to ensure effective and successful project delivery.
- Conduct the last line of defense for the ECS customer-facing unit for partner-delivered customer escalations.
- Support continuous improvements for ECS partner delivery processes based on critical customer feedback.
What you bring :
Required skills:
- Experience on project management aspects
- Fair knowledge on SAP BASIS skills – SWL Tools, Migrations, Upgrade/Updates
- Good understanding on ITIL concepts
- Very good understanding of SAP HANA and SAP Products
- Team player, proactive networking attributes, results and execution focused
- Strong intercultural business and team skills, with proven ability to effectively manage a virtual, multi-cultural/ cross-functional team
- Actively manage project escalations
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Fluent in English - Any other language is a plus
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and work under time pressure
Preferred skills:
- Good overview of the SAP Enterprise Cloud Services Offerings
- Understanding of SAP Next Generation solutions and services (Analytics, BTP, Cloud, Mobility, HANA, Sybase)
- Perspective on current Cloud Hosting trends
- Be able to lead Quality Assurance reviews and Lessons Learned sessions (internally/externally)
Work experience:
- Total years of industry experience: 10+ years
- Relevant Experience on customer facing, processes, de-escalations: min 3 years
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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.
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