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The Senior Engagement Engineer works for customers with Engagement contracts, such as SAP MaxAttention or SAP ActiveAttention. The aim of this role is to establish and support a long-term engagement between the customer and SAP. Engagements will cover topics related to operation and the adoption of digital innovation in SAP centric solutions. Based on a strong organization and network and a sound understanding of the customer situation the Senior Engagement Engineer provides advice and drives the delivery of relevant premium engagement services to pro-actively prevent or to resolve critical situations. In complex environments the Senior Engagement Engineer is working in a team with more experienced colleagues.

Customer Understanding and Situation Analysis:

Understand Customer's Business (e.g. business challenges and pain points, industry specifics)

Understand Customer Organization (e.g. Stakeholder, Implementation Partners, Service Providers)

Understand SAP at Customer (e.g. current contractual footprint, past escalations, customer feedback provided to SAP)

Support analyzing current customer situation, maturity of SAP solution operations, IT service delivery and transformation to intelligent, sustainable enterprise opportunities

Engagement Setup:

Explain the scope of the engagement with the customer

Understand engagement and innovation roadmap, focus areas and high-level delivery plan Understand goals and Key Performance Indicators for the engagement

Agree and implement governance model (e.g. Meeting Cadence, Escalation Path)

Expedite SAP's collaboration platform (Cloud ALM) at the customer

Explain initial action and service plan to the customer

Engagement Governance

Align Service Plans with the account team

Contribute to Executive Meetings. Provide a Balanced Score Card based overview of the engagement to demonstrate the value delivered. Understand Engagement Performance expectations and adhere to Delivery Standards and KPIs

Engagement Development

Highlight premium engagement delivery opportunities to front-office team or to manager

Support the Premium Engagement contract renewal

Customer Relationship Management

Establish trusted relationship with customer

Own the communication for own engineering topics between the customer's organization and SAP CSS 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. Medallia Survey)

Engagement Management & Planning

Know the status of the Premium Engagement contract and Premium Engagement guidelines

Use the support ecosystem to find relevant SAP delivery portfolio and find the best possible way to deliver effectively for maximizing the customer value and increasing SAP delivery efficiency Manage a long-term engagement plan based on customer's projects and top issues

React on short term needs when having to avoid issues

Anticipation and identification of risks and top issues

Identify & assess potential IT Issues and Risks

Provide advice on issue resolution Involve SAP Backoffice organization, SAP experts, as well as experts from the customer and partners if deeper expertise is required

Create an action plan for resolution of the customer's issues and 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 in SAP CSS Services

Support condensing issues to top issues and ensure resolution thereof according to engagement deliverables Escalate critical situations with SAP and customer top management when required

Highlight maintenance at risk situations

Engagement Delivery

Manage execution of the 'Engagement Plan' by aligning, scheduling, scoping, ordering and support of services contained in service plans

Prepare the customer contacts for upcoming service delivery Prepare remote and on-site teams with customer specific information

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 the customer's SAP Solution Manager and other SAP internal systems, such as CRM@SAP Support.

Expedite SAP Solution Manager as collaboration platform

Highlight the benefit of SAP Solution Manager in the customer context

Provide guidance on how to make the Solution Manager ready for delivery.

Internal Feedback

Provide feedback on improvement potential for SAP engagement and service delivery

Plan and forecast revenue based on service plan and delivery execution

Support ES (Enterprise Support) or PSLE (Product Support for Large Enterprises) delivery

Instruct customer on SAP's Support processes to drive efficient incident resolution

Support adequate delivery of Enterprise Support or PSLE Services

Work experience

Minimum of 6 years of SAP experience

Minimum Job Experience: 8-10 Years

Other Skills

Communication to senior management in larger companies

Good understanding of the SAP technology and understanding of SAP Business Suite (Application) and SAP Basis Cloud architecture/hybrid

Transformation support (OnPrem => Cloud)

Data management

Information security

IT operations & change management

Business process & process map

Integration & extensibility (Business Technology Platform)

English: Fluent

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science, Science, Mathematics, Engineering or similar

SAP Netweaver or other SAP certification

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand 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 two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand 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, you can bring out your best.

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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 393672 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.