Business Processes Chief Consultant

SAP•Stanford, CA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

SAP America, Inc. seeks a Business Processes Chief Consultant at our Palo Alto, CA location to drive business consulting by translating the customer's vision into solutions. This role involves mapping business processes to solution requirements, championing disruptive business innovation, and providing thought leadership for transformation towards the Intelligent Enterprise. The consultant will drive change management, deliver end-to-end solution design and configuration across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments using state-of-the-art methodologies, and plan transitions of customer solution landscapes. They will also drive the deployment of best practice business processes for specific LoBs or industries, support pre-sales activities, perform solution reviews and feasibility studies, and work to resolve escalated projects. Additionally, the role includes team leadership, supporting people development, leading customer workshops and trainings, and supporting partner-led projects. The consultant will introduce SAP and industry leading practices for complex business requirements, drive the evolution of the services portfolio, and own the creation of templates and common practices to optimize business processes. Mentoring business process consultants is also a key aspect of this position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Business Administration or a related field of study and ten (10) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Business Administration or a related field of study and eight (8) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
Experience must include eight (8) years involving each of the following: Leading and managing teams of Technical architects and consultants; HANA Database, Oracle Database and SAP NetWeaver/ Basis Administration; Building Technical Architecture and Transformation roadmap for large and highly integrated SAP Landscapes of customers, IT executives, business process leads and technical Architects; Leading large S/4HANA migration projects to minimize the downtime of migrating SAP systems with large database size; Project planning, risk assessment and mitigation plans, testing strategy, governance setup for large transformation and cloud migration projects; Architecting SAP RISE Enterprise Cloud landscape hosted across AWS, Google Coud and Microsoft Azure ensuring resilience, performance and scalability; SAP system release and support package upgrades, OS/DB migrations, and ABAP programming language; and Identifying automation and Business AI use case solutions provided by SAP business requirements.

Responsibilities

Maps business processes to solution requirements.
Champions and leads disruptive business innovation.
Provides thought leadership around the transformation towards the Intelligent Enterprise.
Drives change management to achieve business transformation objectives.
Delivers end-to-end solution design and configuration across all relevant solutions (on-premise, cloud and hybrid), applying state-of-the-art methodologies and standards.
Plans transitions of customer solution landscapes.
Drives deployment of best practice business processes for specific LoBs or industries.
Supports pre-sales activities.
Performs solution reviews and feasibility studies.
Works to resolve escalated projects.
Delivers as team lead and supports respective line manager(s) in people development tasks.
Leads customer workshops and trainings.
Supports in partner-led projects to ensure ecosystem and customer success.
Introduces SAP and industry leading practices for complex business requirements based on experience.
Drives the evolution of the relevant section of the services portfolio for the respective solution area and related areas; can be owner of a service sub-portfolio and/or triggers service innovation.
Owns the creation of templates, common practices and supporting service delivery artifacts in order to optimize business processes.
Mentors business process consultants.