Client Delivery Manager

NTT DATA Services•Plano, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

SAP Customer Delivery Engagement (CDE) is part of SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) and delivers fixed-scope, proactive and outcome-based services across the entire SAP software stack to SAP’s PaaS and SaaS cloud and on-premise customers. We manage a variety of customer engagements in HANA Enterprise Cloud, other SAP Cloud Offerings (like SuccessFactors) and on-premise. The service portfolio includes infrastructure services and Application Managed Services like Managed Data, Testing and Security. We create a stable foundation for our customers’ IT operations and support customers on their digital transformation journey to the intelligent enterprise based on S4/HANA. With continuous access to our expertise and the broader SAP expert network, our customers can take advantage of the latest technologies to support continuous business innovation. SAP CDE helps customers accelerate their innovation adoption, delivering the flexibility to adapt to business changes, rapidly implement technologies and standardize and optimize operations of SAP centric solutions. The mission of the CDE Organization is to maximize the customer success by helping to manage complexity, ensure stable operations, mitigate risk and lowering total cost of operation, support customers on their journey to the intelligent enterprise powered by S4/HANA and releasing investment as well as customer resource capacity for innovation.

Requirements

Minimum 6+ years of experience in project management or SAP Operations
Minimum 6+ years of experience in a customer-facing role
Minimum 8 to 10 years of experience in service management capacity managing multiple clients.
Experienced in the area of IT service providers and managing outsourcing engagements.
SAP Basis, technology and/or functional knowledge are very important.
Technical infrastructure know-how and technical understanding of virtualized system landscapes is critical for this role.
Strong project management skills & customer-facing experience
Strong ability to translate between technical and non-technical audience with confidence
Strong engagement management, relationship building and de-escalation skills
Excellent presentation, communication and moderator skills
High competency in multi-tasking and ability to manage multiple engagements in parallel
Accustomed to working in an international and global virtual matrix organization
Understanding of SAP’s cloud business, cloud and hybrid infrastructure and cloud operation processes
High proficiency in English. Additional languages are a big plus

Nice To Haves

Knowledge and certifications in standards and methodologies for SAP IT operations (e.g. SAP CCoE, ITIL V4 Foundation or Expert Level, Run SAP standards, Solution Manager ALM) are beneficial.
Certification in project management methodology (e.g. PMP) is beneficial.

Responsibilities

Actively drives the cloud transformation agenda with key client stakeholders to ensure adoption of S/4HANA and cloud standardization
Lead the customer engagement and ensures seamless alignment across multiple internal and external stakeholders such as SAP Services, SAP Product support, ECS Partners and customer’s System Integrators or other Hosting Partners
Perform administrative tasks required to manage the engagement (staffing, reporting & controlling).
Manage proactive delivery of service plans and reactive support requests
Host regular status and governance meetings with customers and other SAP stakeholders (extended account team)
Drive transformation and onboarding towards SAP Cloud Solutions
Drives end-to-end customer engagement including commercial responsibility (costs and profitability), customer expectations, delivery team success, customer reporting and invoicing
Achieve customer reference collateral and customer satisfaction responses
Deliver best through proactive mindset and de-escalate critical customer situations
Protect and grow engagement scope and manage commercial change requests
Participate in team-internal knowledge sharing and coach other team members