Client Delivery Manager - Sovereign Cloud Delivery Germany (m/f/d)

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COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That’s why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP recently decided to combine and harmonize all SAP Sovereign Cloud offerings, establishing an end-to-end process for the Public Sector and regulated industries. The newly created Global Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations business unit is part of SAP Product Engineering with responsibility across the relevant Sovereign Cloud portfolio of SAP. Global Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations is collaborating closely with all Board areas to establish a harmonized, scalable, and consistent offering with transparent and standardized deliverables.

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

We are looking for a Client Delivery Manager who will serves as primary point of contact for SAP Cloud Customers of European Sovereign Cloud Services. The CDM drives end-to-end customer engagement from signature onwards, particularly customer onboarding, continuous service delivery, release and maintenance project initiation, architecture and governance coaching, relationship management, and renewal initiation. Beside that the Client Delivery Manager is expected to maintain customer satisfaction through issue mitigation and escalation management, to build strong relationships with key customer stakeholders and helping customers maximize the value of their partnership with SAP. Additionally, the CDM bears commercial responsibility for the engagement and creates upsell opportunities.

The role includes the following tasks:

• Engagement Management
  • understands customer business needs
  • explains aspects of SAP's overall cloud strategy and the growing portfolio.
  • to ensure adoption of S/4HANA and cloud standardization
  • to drive transformation towards SAP Cloud Solutions
• Conducts service and business planning meetings to
• Conducts regular / quarterly business review meetings with the customer to discuss the service quality

• Delivery Management
• Single point of contact for service and support requirements of the customer regarding SAP cloud solutions
• De-escalates critical customer situations
• Ensures feedback loop into the operations teams
• Plans and manages customer release and maintenance activities (establish a customer IT calendar)
• Manages overall service/project delivery according to planned scope, budget and milestones
• Supports delivery/operations teams to perform and drive root cause analysis to completion

• Account Management
• Identify upsell opportunities
• Collaborates with sales to ensure upsell and renewal (participate in the deal review meetings if applicable)
• Enable & ensures customer satisfaction surveys
• Drive & reviews SLA service credit cases
• Supports commercial change requests
• General overview of sizing / pricing of upcoming change requests

What you will bring

• Experience
• min. 5-7 years of work experience
• Excellent customer focus / Networking / Relationship Building
• Knowledge of one or more functional business processes (Logistic, Finance, etc.)
• Project Management Fundamentals
• Infrastructure know-how and technical understanding
• Understand Cloud business and SAP Cloud models / solutions / operation processes
• Understanding of escalation handling and procedures
• Due to the potentially classified nature of our work, your willingness is required to subject yourself to a governmental security clearance process
• Education
• minimum bachelor’s degree or equivalents in Business Administration, Computer Science, Technical Engineering, Economics or related field

Due to the potentially classified nature of our work, your willingness is required to subject yourself to a governmental security clearance process. Daily office presence for efficient team collaboration is required. This role can only be based either in the St. Leon Rot, Walldorf or Berlin office

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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