MENA Business Solution Architect

Job description / Role

MENA Business Solution Architect, EAM, UAE Job

- Desire to succeed and ability to keep abreast of industry trends
- Take a leadership role in engaging with our ENR customers on all levels, including C-level stakeholders in understanding business requirements, current solution landscape and propose new solutions and applications that provide enhanced value from customer perspective
- Create a compelling solution framework including the solution process landscape, integration touch-points and showcase business benefits / ROI calculations
- Drive the creation of customer proposals with account teams and other SAP experts, develop the necessary value-proposition and package the service offerings to land a winning deal
- Provide expert consulting services for the customers projects around key solution areas
- Work closely with account teams in identifying new / upselling opportunities and engagements
- Manage internal and external stakeholders, esp. in new / ramp-up solution deployment
- Contribute to enhancing the knowledge management process within the industry create business best practices, process flows, templates and support packaged service offerings
- Hands-on experience on SAP industry solutions and the ability to create demo scripts and configure scenarios in SAP is essential
- Share knowledge with the community and mentor team members

Requirements

- Graduate / Post-Graduate degrees in IT, Engineering or Management areas
- 10+ years of industry / solution experience excellent understanding of industry business processes, solutions and applications, and ability to comprehend and apply business process best practices
- Certified / Trained in SAP EAM or related product areas with minimum of 6 end-to-end project experience (industry experience may compensate to some extent)
- Cross-solution knowledge preferred (PPM, PS, EHS, IS Oil, etc.)
- Good knowledge of SAP solution framework, EAM solution areas, ASAP methodology and Solution Manager
- Adept at handling project communications, capable of having c-level interactions and engaging with senior management stakeholders, managing expectations and proposing value-based offerings
- Strong presentation and communication skill set

About the Company

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends SAP's leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.