Customer Success Manager Senior Advisor - EMEA

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. 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. 

 

 

 

 

 

What you’ll do:  

 

This is a client-facing role, delivering ongoing support and guidance around business strategy and transformation topics after the sales cycle has completed.  The role focuses on relationship-building and proactive support activities that in turn promote overall customer satisfaction, product adoption and retention & renewals. The role manages diverse, high profile and/or key accounts.

 

Key tasks of this role:

• Develop a trusted relationship with key stakeholders and decision makers
• Understand and respond to customer needs bringing the customers value in to focus.
• Define and drive a targeted goal-based support engagement plan to realize key business, proving a Preferred Success scorecard.
• Provide expertise to customers’ use of SAP Cloud solutions, focusing on SAP Cloud solutions.
• Facilitate access to product and functional expertise for certain topic areas e.g. via Empowerment Sessions.
• Provide personalized Quarterly Release Review & Continuous Trend analysis for Risk mitigation to support customer to develop an appropriate strategy that maximizes adoption
• Meet customer expectations by anticipating and orchestrating in the resolution of their top issues, act as an escalation point and collaborate with other departments as needed.

 

 

What you bring: 

 

You have a proven record of successful account management, a proactive learner and creative problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment. You enjoy interactions that lead to ultimate customer success and satisfaction. You focus on details, particularly with communication, follow-up and documentation and you delight in exceeding customer expectations.

 

• Customer orientation and focus on quality, as well as skills to interact/collaborate with customer IT and LOB decision makers
• An understanding of IT landscapes and lifecycles with a specific focus on SAP Solutions during transitions, implementations and operations phases for cloud, standalone or Hybrid
• Knowledge of SAP Preferred Success & Cloud Solutions and the included service offerings is an advantage
• Ability to deliver results under pressure, work independently and take ownership of assigned tasks (pro-active driver, results-oriented, pragmatic)
• Excellent communication, enthusiastic, strong work ethic and a positive attitude
• Fluency in English language. Fluency in Italian is also desired