Customer Delivery Manager

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you'll do

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) organization is responsible for providing cloud hosted infrastructure, technical & application managed services to our SAP private cloud customers. The Client Delivery Manager is the main customer-facing representative of SAP ECS organization ensuring full delivery accountability of the engagement and customer satisfaction throughout the customer lifecycle.

What you bring

As Client Delivery Manager you will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Own and grow the client engagement for SAP Enterprise Cloud Services and act as the voice of the client within SAP.

• Accountable for entire SAP ECS engagement, lead the engagement with supporting ECS functions and roles to deliver as per contract scope and in line with customer expectations.

• Offer comprehensive knowledge on SAP S/4HANA architecture, conversion, migration path, methodology and tools.

• Understand the SAP high availability or disaster recovery architecture, network and virtual technologies (load-balancer, virtual machine)
• Setup proactive service plan and conduct regular service review meetings with clients (operational and strategic topics).
• Act as an (de-)escalation point for delivery-related topics (Incidents, Service Requests and other customer requirements).
• Ensure seamless alignment across multiple ECS and other SAP internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify top issues, define & execute service plan activities an
• Support commercial change request management in the client lifecycle, perform contract compliance and risk management (project and business risks).
• Support the positioning of additional ECS offerings and support contract renewal in alignment with SAP sales and presales teams.

What do you need to bring:

• Minimum 8+ years of SAP Technical administration and operations of SAP Solutions (preferably in the domain of SAP Basis)
• Fluency in English is mandatory
• Proven track record in managing client engagements, e.g. in Service Delivery Management, Consulting, or Pre-Sales settings.
• Strong customer orientation with a focus on relationship-, expectation- and de-escalation management.
• comprehensive knowledge on SAP S/4HANA architecture, conversion, migration path, methodology and tools.
• Knowledge of IT trends, their impact on business strategies, and SAP's strategy and service portfolio.
• Ability to work effectively as a virtual member of a dynamic and dispersed team (remote)
• SAP Basis, IT Service Management, Project Management, Cloud , Hyperscalers certification (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus

Meet your team

ECS organization is a global organization and the regional CDM teams are located across 6 regions. We are highly diverse and positive spirited bunch of colleagues. Next to our obsession for customer satisfaction we value internal knowledge sharing & collaboration as well as make ECS organization a little better every day.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.

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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

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Requisition ID: | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.