Customer Success Partner Senior Advisor

Job description / Role

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The Customer Success Partner Senior Advisor (f/m/d) is closely aligned with the regional and senior management of Cloud customer accounts, including account management strategies as well as engagement and expansion plans to ensure profitable growth within the customers in the region.

This role requires a professional with the expertise and experience to help customers maximize the value that customers and SAP receive through adoption and use of the RISE with S/4HANA Cloud Edition and to ensure that the customers deploy and use of all their entitled subscription software. The role, by design, is cross functional and will align with leadership across CE&X.

The Responsibilities Further include

- Work in partnership with the Sales, Product Management, Development, Operations, Support and market Vice Presidents responsible for customers to develop and improve the S/4HANA Cloud competencies.
- Development and management of forecasting, account penetration plans, and customer engagement plans that will deliver business outcomes.
- Conduct customer business and opportunity diagnostics to analyze business case drivers, to identify program risks and to establish action plans that deliver near term results and continue to improve business processes related to our value proposition.
- Develop deep relationships with key decision makers and executive sponsors within the Customer and participate in quarterly review meetings, relationship assessments and creating corresponding outcome success plans. Responsible for knowledge management, best practices and leading business commerce enablement strategies specific to the S/4HANA Cloud value proposition.
- Actively driving key performance related commercial actions like renewals and replacements or relationship goals in improving customer net promoter score and marketing references.
- Assists customers with transformational change by facilitating and coordinating cross functional involvement with solutions consulting and services delivery.

Requirements

Your Profile

- University degree (Bachelor as entry level) or comparable experience.
- 3+ years of professional experience in the area Sales, Presales, Customer Engagement, Product Management or Consulting, including cloud-related experience.
- Experience in working with Customers in complex engagements.
- Experience in selling and negotiation with Customers, including experience in developing account management plans.
- Project management and customer management competencies.
- Innovative mindset for Customer Success.
- Knowledge of the SAP RISE solution portfolio.
- Good network within SAP and the cloud delivery teams.
- Very good communication and presentations skills.
- Fluent English and local language skills, additional languages advantageous.
- S/4HANA and Cloud Solutions background desired.

We are SAP

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 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 200 million users and more than 100,000 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, we build breakthroughs, together.

Our inclusion promise

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.

SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

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.