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SAP • Auckland, NZ

Preferred Success Digital Customer Success Partner - ANZ

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Job Description

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES, EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

The Customer Success Partner 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.

Key tasks include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Develop a trusted relationship with key stakeholders and decision makers from customers and SAP partners.
  • Understand key elements of the customer’s environment and Cloud strategy.
  • Management of customers in SAP Cloud Solutions.
  • Understand and respond to customer needs, bringing the customers value in the focus.
  • Define and drive a targeted goal-based engagement plan (Success Plan).
  • Provide expertise to customers’ use of SAP Cloud solutions,
  • Facilitate access to product and functional expertise for certain topic areas e.g. via Empowerment Sessions.
  • Provide tailored Release Reviews to support customers in developing an appropriate strategy that maximises feature adoption.
  • Meet customer expectations by anticipating and orchestrating in the resolution of their top issues, act as an escalation point and collaborating with other departments as needed.
  • Collaborate with internal teams by providing important customer feedback, process-improvement suggestions, troubleshooting tips etc.
  • Seek out and embrace feedback, take on challenging assignments to improve skills, keep knowledge and skills up-to-date and turn mistakes into learning opportunities.
  • Monitor quality of work and identify opportunities for continual improvement.
  • Note this is mainly a remote role; however, occasional customer visits can be considered (up to 40% on-site presence). Additionally, 3 days onsite at the SAP office.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

You have a proven record of successful account management and are 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. You bring:

  • Customer orientation and focus on quality, as well as skills to interact/collaborate with customer IT and LOB decision makers.
  • Customer-facing experience is essential.
  • Cloud mindset, and an understanding of Cloud deployments with SAP Activate methodology
  • Ability to communicate effectively with individuals at all levels, internally and externally, with appropriate discretion where required.
  • Ability to deliver results under pressure, work independently, and take ownership of assigned tasks (pro-active driver, results-oriented, pragmatic)
  • Excellent communication & presentation (soft) skills.
  • Enthusiast, strong work ethic and a positive attitude.
  • Business-level English language skills, written and verbal.

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS AND WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Graduate with a Bachelor's or Honours Degree in IT/Computer Science/Physics/Mathematics/Engineering/Business with IT or equivalent.
  • Up to 5 years’ working experience with proven ability in a customer-facing role to work with dedicated customers on project and senior management level.
  • Experience in any of the following is desired: SuccessFactors, SAP CX, S4 Hana other Cloud HR systems.
  • Proven record in managing issues, scope, and quality while bringing areas of responsibility and tasks to successful completion within the time requirements.
  • Experience in working in global/virtual teams is an advantage.
  • Experience in transferring knowledge to others (coaching & mentoring) is an advantage.
  • Knowledge of SAP Preferred Success and/or SAP Enterprise Support is an advantage.

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 and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 423226 | Work Area: Sales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

Company benefits

25 (UK) 30 (Germany) 21 (India) days annual leave + bank holidays
Accrued annual leave – 1 day/year up to 30 days (UK)
Open to job sharing
Sabbaticals
Adoption leave – Up to 52 weeks (UK)
Open to part time work for some roles
Returnship
Equity packages
Shared parental leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Fertility benefits
Pregnancy support
On-site childcare
Share options
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Gym membership
Dental coverage
Health insurance
Private GP service
Mental health platform access
Life assurance
Life insurance
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Enhanced paternity leave
Travel insurance
Cycle to work scheme
On-site gym
Bike parking
Enhanced sick pay
Emergency leave
Enhanced sick days
Company car
Open to part-time employees
Work from anywhere scheme
Childcare credits
Fertility treatment leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Carer’s leave
Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
Family health insurance
Women’s health leave
Annual bonus
401K
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Employee discounts
Loyalty programme
Non-contributory pension
Personal development days
Personal development budgets
L&D budget
Language lessons
LinkedIn learning license
Study support
Studying sabbaticals
Lunch and learns
In house training
Hackathons
Professional subscriptions
Further education support

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