Client Delivery Manager - SAP Basis

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What you ll do

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) organization is responsible for providing cloud hosted infrastructure, technical & application managed services to our SAP private cloud customers. The Client Delivery Manager is the main customer-facing representative of SAP ECS organization ensuring full delivery accountability of the engagement and customer satisfaction throughout the customer lifecycle.

What you bring

As Client Delivery Manager you will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Own and grow the client engagement for SAP Enterprise Cloud Services and act as the voice of the client within SAP.
• Accountable for entire SAP ECS engagement, lead the engagement with supporting ECS functions and roles to deliver as per contract scope and in line with customer expectations.
• Offer comprehensive knowledge on SAP S/4HANA architecture, conversion, migration path, methodology and tools.
• Understand the SAP high availability or disaster recovery architecture, network and virtual technologies (load-balancer, virtual machine)
• Setup proactive service plan and conduct regular service review meetings with clients (operational and strategic topics).
• Act as an (de-)escalation point for delivery-related topics (Incidents, Service Requests and other customer requirements).
• Ensure seamless alignment across multiple ECS and other SAP internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify top issues, define & execute service plan activities an
• Support commercial change request management in the client lifecycle, perform contract compliance and risk management (project and business risks).
• Support the positioning of additional ECS offerings and support contract renewal in alignment with SAP sales and presales teams.

What do you need to bring:

• Minimum 8+ years of SAP Technical administration and operations of SAP Solutions (preferably in the domain of SAP Basis)
• Fluency in English is mandatory
• Proven track record in managing client engagements, e.g. in Service Delivery Management, Consulting, or Pre-Sales settings.
• Strong customer orientation with a focus on relationship-, expectation- and de-escalation management.
• comprehensive knowledge on SAP S/4HANA architecture, conversion, migration path, methodology and tools.
• Knowledge of IT trends, their impact on business strategies, and SAP s strategy and service portfolio.
• Ability to work effectively as a virtual member of a dynamic and dispersed team (remote)
• SAP Basis, IT Service Management, Project Management, Cloud , Hyperscalers certification (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus