Employment:
Full Time
What we offer
Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. Apply now!
The Team
Our ability to deploy highly scalable, flexible, secure and resilient cloud solutions that address our customers’ business challenges and accelerate their ability to innovate is critical to the continued growth of our cloud business – both in terms of new bookings and renewals. The Cloud Technology Team in EMEA South , as part of to the Chief Revenue Office organization (CRO) in EMEA South, is driving our End-to-End Cloud deployment strategy for the region including the OneStrike/Next Generation Cloud Delivery program and is pivotal for the success of the overall Cloud business in the region .
The role
You will be a key member of the Cloud Technology Team with a main focus as the EMEA South PMO lead for the One Strike / Next Generation Cloud Delivery program.
One Strike is a global program approved by the SAP board to accelerate our move to the cloud. It supports the execution of our 4+1 strategy by shifting our application workloads to the cloud. One Strike will ensure SAP has a solid, future-proof infrastructure that will meet the future needs of our business. Through this, SAP is making massive investments in the harmonization of our cloud delivery infrastructure to modernize it and thus enable faster product innovation cycles, reduced TCO, and improved resiliency.
This role will provide leadership and direction to the field with respect to managing our customers, partners, and overall business impacts across the region. It also is to provide steering and guidance across the various Customer Success Lines of Business and oversee the overall successful delivery of One Strike for EMEA South.
This is a regional role and can be based from any major EMEA South location e.g. Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Dubai, Riyadh .
Expectations and Tasks
– Senior Program Manager that can operate at both a detailed task level but also at an executive level with global, regional and LOB leaders .
– Further improve program governance, project planning activities and manage the execution of projects according to plan
– Operational management of complex, multi year programs impacting various organizations and LoBs within SAP
– Manage program priorities & steer project and SWAT teams
– Act as a central point of contact regarding all project / program related queries
– Prepare and provide clear and concise presentations to SAP executives for all project / program related topics
– Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends and technologies, SAP cloud strategy and roadmap, architecture strategy, customer successes and value proposition across SAP’s cloud portfolio
– Track action items, prepare meeting materials, and ensure proper follow ups
– Manage program rollout execution with delivery teams including partners
– Deliver / support reporting and risk management within program scope
– Manage expectations, roles and responsibilities during program execution
Role Requirements:
– 10+ years of working experience with a proven track record in program management or related area in operations leading large scale, high risk, or strategic projects
– Field experience in sales, services, or success delivery a plus
– Experience with business ca se creation, analysis, and research
– Strong presentation skills to both internal and external stakeholders
– Cloud Architecture knowledge
– Experience leading customer and partner engagements
– Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining project deliverables such as, project charter, project management plan, status reports, project timesheets, communications plan, and schedule
– Demonstrated experience leading cross functional , virtual teams within a formalized methodology
– Ability to bring business requirements and technical design together and deliver on time and in the budget under high management attention
– Strong network within SAP
– Fluency in English is a prerequisite, further EMEA South relevant languages are a plus
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
– University Degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related area
– Knowledge of and competency in project management processes
– Knowledge of the strategic and operational issues of project management
– Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity, and change
– Ability to translate diverse business needs into a format for an objective decision making
– Analytical and problem-solving skills with methodological background in areas of Operations
– Ability to drive and execute topics self-dependent and turn into action and tangible results
– Proven ability to work with virtual and distributed teams
– PMP and/or other project management certification preferred
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.
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.
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