Customer Understanding and Situation Analysis
- Analyze current customer situation, maturity of SAP solution operations usage, and IT service delivery
- Understand the strategic direction of the customer and the industry sector the customer is operating in
- Watch SAP innovation, the market and technology development to identify innovation potential for the customer
Engagement Setup
- Align and refine the scope of the engagement with the customer
- Define and agree with customer on engagement roadmap, innovation roadmap, adoption targets, engagement focus areas, and high-level delivery plan
- Drive agreement on goals and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the engagement with the customer
- Define initial action and service plan with the customer as the starting point for the engagement
Engagement Governance
- Align with account team to define and position collaborative service offerings from SAP
- Align with other internal stakeholders as required
- Facilitate executive meetings, provides an overview of the engagement contribution to demonstrate the value delivered
- Manage engagement performance regarding delivery standards and KPIs
Engagement Development
- Within own area of responsibility identify opportunities at the customer and create a value proposition
- Drive customer retention and Premium Engagement contract renewals
- Drive positioning of SAP's strategic initiatives and focus topics to the customer
Customer Relationship Management
- Establish a trusted relationship with customer
- Own the communication for all engagement related topics between the customer's organization and SAP during the engagement lifecycle
- Capture customer experience (reference calls, videos, success stories, etc.)
Engagement Management and Planning
- Own and manage the customer entitlement while adhering to entitlement or contract guidelines
- Know relevant SAP delivery portfolio for accelerating adoption and maximizing the customer value whilst supporting SAP delivery efficiency
- Define and align a long-term engagement plan based on customer’s projects and top issues
Anticipation and Identification of Risks and Top Issues
- Identify and assess potential issues and risks related to SAP solutions, and associated business processes and customer initiatives
- Provide advice on issue resolution or risk mitigation
- Create an action plan for root-cause analysis and resolution of the customer's issues and top issues.
- Prepare executive briefing to provide background and status on high profile customer top issue(s)
Escalation Management for Critical Situations
- Understand and judge importance of all issues raised, and recommendations given to the customer
- Condense issues to top issues and ensure resolution thereof according to engagement deliverables
- Escalate and manage critical situations to SAP and customer top management when required
- Identify churn or maintenance at risk situations and coordinate measures to reestablish customer's trust in SAP
Engagement Delivery
- Manage execution of the engagement plan by aligning, scheduling, scoping, ordering and supporting the delivery of Premium Engagement services
- Follow up service deliveries to ensure value realization and visibility of value delivered to customer
Documentation and Reporting of Engagement Status, Action and Value
- Regularly report the status of engagement deliverables, accomplishments and value to the customer
- Ensure up-to-date customer information and status is captured in respective systems
Promote Most Relevant Supporting SAP Processes and Tools
- Promote Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) for Service, SAP for Me, SAP.COM, SAP Help, SAP One Support Launchpad, and others if applicable
- Instruct customer on SAP's Support processes to drive efficient incident resolution
Training and Mentoring Tasks
- Review and participate when needed in presentations given to the customer senior management
- Give input on functional and personal skills training plan to other colleagues in the engagement
Internal Feedback
- Leverage existing channels to provide input to the SAP organization to optimize solutions or offerings
- Provide feedback to processes and highlight improvement potential for SAP engagements
Experience and Educational Requirements
- Can effectively resolve or drive resolution in a structured manner for problems that require the creation of new and innovative approaches
- Understands enterprises of larger size and their solution landscape and contributes to the solution of critical customer issues
- Has a very good understanding of the SAP technology, solutions and services
- Has an excellent understanding of SAP tools and processes
- Has an advanced understanding of cloud delivery principles and methodologies, including but not limited to SAP Activate
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Science, Mathematics, Engineering or similar