Actively drives the cloud transformation agenda with key client stakeholders to ensure adoption of S/4HANA and cloud standardization Lead the customer engagement and ensures seamless alignment across multiple internal and external stakeholders such as SAP Services, SAP Product support, ECS Partners and customer’s System Integrators or other Hosting Partners
Perform administrative tasks required to manage the engagement (staffing, reporting & controlling).
Manage proactive delivery of service plans and reactive support requests
Host regular status and governance meetings with customers and other SAP stakeholders (extended account team)
Drive transformation and onboarding towards SAP Cloud Solutions
Drives end-to-end customer engagement including commercial responsibility (costs and profitability), customer expectations, delivery team success, customer reporting and invoicing
Achieve customer reference collateral and customer satisfaction responses
Deliver best through proactive mindset and de-escalate critical customer situations
Protect and grow engagement scope, leverage and cross-sell opportunities and manage commercial change requests
Participate in team-internal knowledge sharing and coach other team members
Expected to spend up to 20% of time onsite at client location
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred in Business Administration, Computer Science, Technical Engineering, Economics or related field
SAP Basis, technology and/or functional knowledge are very important
Technical infrastructure know-how and technical understanding of virtualized system landscapes is critical for this role
Strong ability to translate between technical and non-technical audience with confidence
Strong engagement management, relationship building and de-escalation skills
Excellent presentation, communication and moderator skills
High competency in multi-tasking and ability to manage multiple engagements in parallel
Accustomed to working in an international and global virtual matrix organization
Experienced in the area of IT service providers and managing outsourcing engagements
Understanding of SAP’s cloud business, cloud and hybrid infrastructure and cloud operation processes
High proficiency in English. Additional languages are a big plus
Knowledge and certifications in standards and methodologies for SAP IT operations (e.g. SAP CCoE, ITIL V4 Foundation or Expert Level, Run SAP standards, Solution Manager ALM) are beneficial
Certification in project management methodology (e.g. PMP) is beneficial
WORK EXPERIENCE
6+ years experience in project management or SAP Operations
6+ years experience in a customer-facing role
6+ years experience in SAP Basis and/or infrastructure operation/development