Delivery Executive

at  SAP

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As the SAP CSS organization, we help customers to innovate fast and realize the business benefits from their SAP investments. We are looking for a Delivery Executive to focus on our largest strategic accounts in the EMEA South region. She/he needs to have the qualification and business acumen to manage large scale, high risk, accounts, stakeholders and delivery teams that span organizational and national boundaries including multiple business units and multiple service partners/vendors. This is to be performed based on the business strategy and the desired results: customer value driven, outcome oriented, in-scope, on-budget, on-schedule, and consistent with quality standards.

She/he is expected to be able to:

• Manage Strategic Customer Engagements directly
• Sponsor of Strategic Customer Strategy
• Defining a Framework on best practices and the CSS Cloud Transformation which supports the Region to deliver customer outcome and to satisfy the important customers
• Liaise and coordinate with regional/global Customer Success/Customer Success Stakeholders
• Pro-active, problem solving, “can-do” attitude and “customer first” mindset.
• Ability to de-escalate customers by ordering, structuring, and bringing in the management’s attention to a major incident or a problem

The SAP Delivery Executive is responsible for supporting our customer’s transformation strategy through the management of cloud, on-premise or hybrid implementation initiatives. Most projects will utilize agile/activate methodologies. She/he has the qualifications and business acumen to manage large-scale strategic projects that span organizational boundaries including multiple business units and service partners. She/he develops into providing leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs to time, budget and project quality criteria. Furthermore, the new colleague is responsible for the success of assigned projects by ensuring adherence to SAP’s Activate project management methodology and best business practices, provides mentoring to the project team members, status communication and updates both to the customer and SAP management.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICTIONS

• Master’s degree, preferably in finance, commerce, engineering, information technologies, computer science, MBA or equivalent
• Excellent knowledge of project management methodologies. SAP methodologies (including SAP Activate and SAP Solution Manager).
• Proactive attitude in managing stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer success
• Demonstrated ability to command the attention and respect of senior level leaders and confidently make presentations to large and executive audiences
• The candidate must possess experience managing a number of internal and external stakeholders, so interpersonal skills and abilities will be vital to succeed in this role
• Team oriented: ability to build strong relationships at every level of the organization. Being a strong motivator who knows how to influence others to deliver consistently their best work
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills – fluent in English
• PMP certification or other project management certifications are desirable
• Results-driven / Self-organized / Decision making
• Knowledge of one or more functional business processes (Logistic, Finance, etc.)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Proven project management experience at a consulting / system integration company.
• 15-20 years project management experience (SAP software) with numerous large scale implementations (at least 3-5 with a total value of > 5 Mio. $).
• Demonstrated ability to scope, structure and manage medium- to large scale, medium to high complex projects with modern delivery mixes on time, on budget and within quality criteria that maximized business benefits for customers
• Demonstrated experience in managing, aligning and working with various levels within a customer organization (project, business, executive) as well as different parts of large global organizations
• Excellent customer focus / Networking / Relationship Building
• Results-driven / Self-organized / Decision making
• Knowledge of one or more functional business processes (Logistic, Finance, etc.)

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

As a crucial part of SAP’s total solution delivery strategy, SAP focuses on the overall success of customers’ SAP solutions.