Ecosystem Development Manager for Top Partner LoB Engagement

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:
As an Ecosystem Development Manager at SAP for Human Capital Management (HCM) SAP SuccessFactors, you will drive ecosystem development strategies, acting as a trusted consultant and thought leader for our top Solution Area partners. Your role will be instrumental in guiding partner investments including SAP Business Suite with HCM, Data, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and AI. You will harness your expertise to foster relationships and influence partners to enhance their sales strategies, co-innovation projects, and implementation approaches. Additionally, you will ensure seamless coordination with SAP’s account teams and the broader global partner network.

Key Responsibilities:

Be a Strategic Connector & Innovator:

• Cultivate and maintain deep, strategic relationships with key domain experts within top partners for SAP SuccessFactors, enhancing their sales and implementation capabilities.
• Identify and establish new, right-fit partnerships, developing roadmaps to revenue and maximizing customer lifetime value.
• Act as a subject matter expert and thought leader, creating feedback loops for future innovation and business growth.

Drive Strategic Initiatives & Joint Business Planning:

• Identify top HCM SAP SuccessFactors partners based on set criteria and collaborate to develop comprehensive, annual strategic business plans. Ensure integration with SAP’s overall business objectives and define clear goals, focus areas, and execution strategies.
• Establish go-to-market (GTM) strategies across partners, encouraging the adoption of SAP innovations and fostering expansion across lines of business towards comprehensive Suite coverage.

Execute & Foster Ecosystem Development:

• Collaborate with regional Enterprise Demand Management (EDM) and strategic partner teams to execute partner business plans, promoting investment in SAP’s newer solutions and accelerating demand generation efforts.
• Support partner readiness across the entire customer lifecycle, acting as a trusted advisor during pre-sales and post-sales activities.
• Drive partner transformation, facilitating enablement programs to scale partners’ cloud delivery practices and capabilities.
• Ensure successful customer outcomes with smooth, high-quality go-lives, prioritizing partner implementation excellence and customer satisfaction.

What You’ll Bring:

• 5-10 years of experience in Business Development, Solution Advisory, or Partner Management, with over 5 years of specialized expertise in HCM.
• Strong networking skills with Solution Area-specific stakeholders and a proven track record of fostering successful partnerships.
• A passion for cross-organizational collaboration and the ability to coordinate diverse stakeholders to nurture and advance partner relationships.

Where You’ll Belong:
As a member of SAP’s Partner Ecosystem Success organization, you will be part of the Partner Business Growth pillar, which focuses on enhancing domain expertise and investment with partners, ensuring delivery excellence, and evolving SAP’s PartnerEdge program in line with strategic goals. You will collaborate with Solution Area teams in Customer Success, Product Engineering, and global and regional partner teams to drive innovation and growth.

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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Requisition ID: 443295 | Work Area: Sales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid