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SAP Senior Services Engagement Engineer in Tempe, Arizona
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Services Engagement works with customers with Premium Engagement Contracts (such as SAP MaxAttention / ActiveAttention, SAP Active Embedded or Value Assurance), being responsible for overall orchestration of delivery of contracted services. The key objective is to establish and manage long-term engagement relations between the customer and SAP. Engagements cover the entire solution life cycle (discovery & innovation, design & build, operations).
Manages the delivery of relevant premium engagement services to foster successful adoption of SAP Solutions and to pro-actively prevent/ resolve critical situations, via a strong organization and network within SAP and a sound understanding of the customer situation. Provides holistic support and coordination across all SAP solutions in use by the customer, whether on-prem or cloud. Responsible for the execution of a comprehensive service plan with a focus on innovation.
Core tasks:
Understanding the customers business goals and Business Analysis
Determine Engagement Setup, Strategy & Governance Customer Stakeholder Management, including c-level interactions, with frequent face-to-face interactions
Engagement Development, Management & Planning of services to be delivered (establish an Engagement Roadmap with detailed KPIs)
Management of commercial aspects of engagements for customer satisfaction and reference ability
Accountability for financial aspects of the customer engagement including forecast accuracy, revenue achievement, run rate, and margin
Engagement Delivery: Definition and Coordination of services to be delivered via SAP-Organization (e.g., COE Team, etc.), including resource management & governance
Anticipation and identification of risks and top issues, including mitigation planning
Escalation Management for critical situations
Documentation and reporting of engagement status SAP internal Stakeholder Management (development, services, sales)
Key Responsibilities & Tasks:
The Senior Engagement Engineer works for customers covered by a long-term post-sales engagement. An engagement is a collaborative relationship between a customer and individual resources or teams with a specific mandate based on a defined contract.
The aim of this role is to support a long-term engagement between the customer and SAP. The engagement will cover the enterprise-wide adoption, consumption, and operation of SAP centric solutions.
Based on a strong organization and peer network combined with a sound understanding of the customer the Senior Engagement Engineer manages relevant activities to pro-actively support customer initiatives and solution usage to ensure adoption and consumption. The Senior Engagement Engineer is working in an engagement with moderate complexity or together in a team with more experienced colleagues which are helping in judging situations and the creation of action plans for complex situations.
Customer Understanding and Situation Analysis
Understand the customer's business (e.g., business challenges and pain points, industry specifics)
Understand the customer organization (e.g., stakeholders, implementation partners, service providers) and how that organizational structure may affect the customer's success with SAP >
Understand SAP's status at the customer's enterprise (e.g., current contractual footprint and adoption, past escalations, customer feedback provided to SAP and potential future footprint to meet customer needs)
Support analysis of current customer situation, maturity of SAP solution operations, and IT service delivery
Engagement Setup
Explain the scope of the engagement with the customer
Understand engagement roadmap, innovation roadmap, adoption targets, engagement focus areas and develop a high-level delivery plan
Understand goals and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the engagement
Agree and implement governance model (e.g., meeting cadence, escalation path) > Expedite SAP's collaboration platform at the customer
Explain the initial action plan to the customer as the starting point for the engagement
Engagement Governance
Align action plan with the account team and other internal stakeholders as required
Contribute to executive meetings, provide an overview of the engagement contribution to demonstrate the value delivered
Understand engagement performance expectations and adhere to delivery standards and KPIs
Engagement Development
Highlight opportunities outside own area of responsibility to the account team
Support customer retention and Premium Engagement contract renewals
Customer Relationship Management
Establish a trusted relationship with customer
Own the communication of relevant topics between the customers organization and SAP during the engagement lifecycle
Support capturing customer experience (reference calls, videos, success stories, etc.)
Align, schedule, trigger, and follow-up on customer feedback (e.g., Qualtrics Surveys)
Engagement Management and Planning
Know the customer entitlement while adhering to entitlement or contract guidelines >
Use the supporting ecosystem to find relevant SAP portfolio items to accelerate adoption and maximize customer value whilst supporting SAP delivery efficiency
Manage a long-term engagement plan based on customers solutions, projects, and top issues
React on short-term needs when having to avoid issues
Anticipation and Identification of Risks and Top Issues
Identify and assess potential issues and risks related to SAP solutions, associated business processes, and customer initiatives
Provide advice on issue resolution
Involve SAP experts, as well as experts from the customer and partners if deeper expertise is required
Create an action plan for root-cause analysis and resolution of the customer's issues and top issues Support the preparation of executive briefing to provide background and status on high profile customer top issues
Document top issues to provide transparency on status and progress throughout SAP
Escalation Management for Critical Situations
Understand importance of all issues raised, and recommendations given to the customer
Support condensing issues to top issues and ensure resolution thereof according to engagement deliverables
Escalate critical situations to SAP and customer management when required
Highlight churn or maintenance at risk situations Engagement Delivery
Manage execution of the engagement plan by aligning, scheduling, scoping, ordering, and supporting the delivery of Premium Engagement services
Follow up service deliveries to ensure value realization and visibility of value delivered to customer
Documentation and Reporting of Engagement Status, Action, and Value
Regularly report the status of engagement deliverables, accomplishments and value to the customer or the front office team
Enter and update the customer's information and status in respective systems
Promote Most Relevant Supporting SAP Processes and Tools
Promote Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) for Service, SAP for Me, SAP.COM, SAP Help, SAP One Support Launchpad, and others if applicable
Provide support on first steps to ensure a seamless onboarding
Instruct customer on SAP's Support processes to drive efficient incident resolution
Internal Feedback
- Provide feedback to processes and highlight improvement potential for SAP engagements
Experience & Educational Requirements
Can effectively resolve or drive resolution in a structured manner for problems that require the creation of new and innovative approaches
Can understand customer solution landscapes
Understands solution landscape management and typical issues at larger enterprises
Has a good understanding of the SAP technology, solutions, and services
Has a very good understanding of SAP tools and processes
Has a good understanding of cloud delivery principles and methodologies, including but not limited to SAP Activate
Education
- Bachelors degree in computer science, Science, Mathematics, Engineering or similar
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Compensation Range Transparency : SAPbelieves the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAPs commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 117700 - 200000(USD) USD.The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidatewill be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills,experience, scope ofthe role, location, etc. as determinedthrough theselection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits (https://www.sapnorthamericabenefits.com/en/public/welcome) .
Requisition ID: 397229| Work Area:Consulting and Professional Services| Expected Travel: 0 - 10%| Career Status: Professional| Employment Type: Regular Full Time| Additional Locations:#LI-Hybrid
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