People & Culture Business Partner Lead for CRO in the Americas

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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.

 

SAP’s People and Culture (P&C) organization is seeking an experienced, strategic P&C Business Partner Leader to work for Customer Success in the Americas to bring SAP’s People Agenda to life. In this role you will report to the SVP P&C Business Partner Lead for Go-to-Market. You will lead a team of P&C Business Partners to provide strategic P&C consulting and expertise on all people and organizational topics – driving the transformational journey of SAP. 

  

 Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

  

   Transformation 

• Provide business-relevant strategic consulting to the CRO and the respective Leadership Team combined with high operational excellence to accelerate SAP’s transformation  

• Advise on strategic organizational design and drive the implementation of reorganizations, complex business transformation, and critical change management initiatives 

  

   Team & Organizational Development  

• Drive team, organizational, and talent development by effectively bringing to life the People programs which underpin our People Agenda, including Goal Planning, Total Rewards Planning, Employee Roundtables, Talent Management, Employee Engagement, and Performance Management in alignment with our global P&C Operating model  

• Act as sparring partner to the Leadership Team and foster trusted conversations about performance to create an open-minded and high-performance growth culture 

  

   Strategic Workforce Planning 

• Provide structured and relevant data analysis and insights on organizational health in support of the business Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)  

• Partner to strategically plan the workforce of the future using workforce guidance / KPI’s, such as Early Talent hiring, workforce pyramid, location strategy, population demographics, organic v inorganic growth in senior level roles, etc. 

  

What You Bring: 

  

It's your strategic P&C orientation with the business and your drive for execution along with a strong professional track record that bring added value to our P&C BP Go-to-Market Team. You exemplify essential qualities including empathy, transparency, resilience, a growth mindset, personal accountability, and passion. 

 

• Strong leadership skills and confidentiality in partnering as a true change agent with (Senior) Business Leader in times of constant change and transformation
• Strong professional maturity and comfort working in a fast paced and complex matrixed organization, embodying an agile style of working - always displaying a Growth Mindset

• 7+ years relevant experience in People & Culture/HR Business Partner roles, ideally with some global experience. But have experience working with sales and/or professional services teams 

• Understanding of SAP’s Strategy and opportunities for the future 

• Expertise in driving transformation and change management initiatives at scale  
• Experience leading cross functional teams and teams across multiple countries

• High integrity; consistently handle sensitive matters and data with complete confidence 

• Strong ability to build trusting relationships, demonstrating a high degree of professionalism in handling confidential and sensitive information while maintaining a healthy balance between assertiveness and diplomacy