Business Engagement Lead (f/m/d) - AI Adoption & Procurement

Employment type: Full time

Job Description

We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

What you'll build:

We are seeking a motivated Business Engagement Lead (f/m/d) – AI Adoption & Procurement to join SAP’s Global Procurement Organization (GPO).
This hybrid role combines business engagement and category enablement with hands-on AI adoption and capability building, supporting SAP Procurement on its journey towards AI‑enabled ways of working.

Business Engagement Lead (approx. 50%):

Strategic Business Interface:
You act as the key interface between Procurement Category Teams and central GPO functions, ensuring strong alignment of business priorities, governance, processes, and technology.
Topic & Priority Ownership:
You safeguard the identification, prioritization, and execution of relevant business topics and initiatives, ensuring value creation for GPO, internal stakeholders, and external partners.
Subject Matter Expertise:
You serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert for your assigned category, with a strong understanding of procurement processes, stakeholder landscapes, and digital tools.
Project & Initiative Enablement:
You proactively monitor progress and deliverables of category‑specific and cross‑category initiatives, working closely with Heads of Procurement, Category Managers, and central GPO teams.
Systems & Tools Engagement:
You act as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) from a business perspective for key procurement platforms (e.g. Ariba Guided Buying, SAP Fieldglass), ensuring business needs are translated into scalable and compliant solutions.

AI Adoption & Enablement (approx. 50%):

AI Ambassador for Procurement:
You act as an AI ambassador within Procurement, actively promoting AI usage and innovative ways of working across multiple teams and functions.

Enablement & Training:
You design and deliver regular trainings, enablement sessions, and co‑creation formats, empowering employees to confidently use AI tools in their day‑to‑day work.
Collaboration with Central AI Teams:
You engage closely with the central GPO AI Core Team, ensuring alignment between central AI initiatives and real procurement use cases and needs.
Agent & Use Case Enablement:
You support the design, testing, and adoption of AI agents and AI‑driven use cases, translating business challenges into practical AI applications.
Open Exchange & Hands‑On Support:
You proactively offer opportunities for employees to exchange ideas on AI, provide ad‑hoc support, and help teams overcome barriers to adoption through hands‑on guidance.

What you bring:

Strong Business Partnering Skills:
You bring excellent stakeholder management skills and feel comfortable operating at the intersection of business, technology, and change.
AI & Innovation Mindset:
You have a strong curiosity for AI and digital innovation and enjoy experimenting, learning, and enabling others to adopt new tools and ways of working.
Experience & Background:
You have experience in procurement, business engagement, transformation, digital enablement, or related areas within a multinational environment. Hands‑on exposure to AI use cases or automation is needed.
Communication & Facilitation Skills:
You are a confident communicator and facilitator, comfortable running trainings, workshops, and co‑creation sessions across virtual and international teams.
Language Skills:
Fluency in English is required for this role.

Where you belong:

The Global Procurement Organization (GPO) drives procurement excellence across SAP by combining strong business partnering with scalable processes, governance, and technology enablement.

As a Business Engagement Lead, you will work closely with Procurement Category Teams, central GPO functions, and key stakeholders across SAP. You will become part of a highly collaborative and forward‑looking procurement community that values transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement.

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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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AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

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