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PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
The Delivery Executive (DE) is a senior leader accountable for end-to-end delivery success across strategic and value accounts. This role provides executive oversight, fosters trusted customer relationships, and ensures alignment between SAP solutions and the customer's business transformation objectives. The DE is central to driving adoption, consumption, and realized value through the RISE with SAP methodology, driving solution to Fit to Standard (SAP Best Practices), and Clean Core architecture principles, while promoting innovation through AI-enabled solutions and creative problem solving.
As the primary delivery representative to customer senior business and IT executives, the DE leads delivery governance throughout the transformation lifecycle—from sales support and implementation to post-go-live stabilization, ensuring consistent focus on customer outcomes and long-term value both customer facing and SAP internal, integrating with the SAP ecosystem across the SAP organization ensuring aligning with global and regional executive sponsors for the customer and their respective teams.
This role requires close collaboration with the Managing Partner, Services Account Executive (SAE), partners, and internal SAP teams.
What You will Do:
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS:
1. Strategic Account Oversight & Governance
- Own delivery accountability across assigned accounts, ensuring consistent execution and program success.
- Establish strong customer-facing and SAP internal governance frameworks to manage scope, risk, performance, and to drive innovations based on existing and new solution capabilities which are on SAP’s roadmap or are potential future roadmap capabilities.
- Monitor consumed Annual Contract Value (cACV) and ensure progress on Commit-to-Consume (C2C) targets.
- Provide oversight to delivery managers and project teams.
- Facilitate and ensure integration with SAP ecosystem and System Integrators involved in the transformation at the respective customers.
2. Adoption and Consumption Leadership
- Act as the Adoption and Consumption Executive, driving uptake and realized value of SAP solutions.
- Lead adoption strategies that support cloud transformation, AI innovation, and operational efficiency.
- Ensure delivery is aligned to RISE with SAP standards, drives Fit to Standard (SAP best practices), and Clean Core architectures.
3. Business Transformation & Value Realization
- Align SAP services with the customer’s strategic objectives to enable measurable business outcomes.
- Guide digital transformation initiatives and develop long-term value plans.
- Leverage creative, AI-driven solutions to solve complex customer challenges.
4. Executive Engagement & Relationship Management
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with customer and SAP executives.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for delivery-related matters.
- Promote transparency, alignment, and proactive communication across all stakeholders.
5. Service Expansion & Opportunity Development
- Partner with Sales to identify and shape new service opportunities.
- Expand SAP’s footprint by aligning future initiatives with customer needs and SAP innovation.
- Support talent development and foster a culture of excellence, agility, and collaboration.
What You will Bring:
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES:
Bachelor's degree is required, Master’s degree preferred
WORK EXPERIENCE:
- 10-15 years SAP services sales and services delivery experience including services management experience. Major Systems Integrator experience preferred.
- ERP implementation leadership experience managing teams of 100+ resources with $50M+ revenue per year required including PMP certification.
- Track record of being able to translate business strategies into business capabilities needed to enable and to solutions required to operationalize while becoming the trusted advisor to customer business and IT executives.
- Track record of leading executive customer-facing and internal steering meetings working with c-level business and IT executives.
- Ability to integrate and coordinate with teams external to deployment project to ensure successful delivery across the ecosystem.
- Track record of building and managing a portfolio of innovation use case with the customer, proving out use cases, and transferring successful use cases into production.
- Track record of leading $30M+ pre-sales pursuits successfully positioning strategic and business transformative consulting engagements.
- Track record of achieving revenue and margin goals while managing multiple client projects of meaningful scope and duration. Proven ability to build trusted relationships at the client business and IT executive level.
- Ability to effectively manage and resolve client escalations.
- Demonstrated leadership by example style in managing teams and clients.
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.
We win with inclusion
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 world.
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Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted annual combined range for this position is 243300-571700USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.
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Requisition ID: 449538 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Executive | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid
