Partner Engagement Senior Specialist

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This Senior Ecosystem Development Manager role is for the F&S line of business in India. It serves to develop the F&S ecosystem within India, and to support the indirect growth of F&S for the Market Unit CPO and their PBM team. Strong collaboration skills are key. Importantly too are a level of strong sales acumen / business development, an understanding of the F&S portfolio (S4 Finance, Procurement, oCFO), and an understanding of the India ecosystem at large.

What you'll do:

To design and execute ecosystem development strategies, fostering and managing strategic partnerships for a dedicated Solution Area, Industry, or Incubation topic such as Sustainability. The role aims to drive partner investment and performance across all Partner motions (Sell / Service / Software) and steer innovation.

• Develop and implement comprehensive ecosystem strategies in collaboration with SAP business owners, guiding partner engagements and investments.
• Act as a thought leader to create mid-term strategies, facilitating feedback loops for future business and innovation
• Execute business plans across partner motions, expanding partner reach, enabling service partners, and engaging with software partners to drive innovations
• Establish and maintain annual business plans for focus partners, identifying prospects and driving pipeline growth
• Orchestrate internal stakeholders across Development, Solution, and Field roles to support strategic partnerships, providing guidance and advisory

What you'll bring

• Accountability responsible for delivery of outcome of assigned projects or areas of responsibility internally recognized senior on complex technical and business matters
• Works on large, complex activities, using demonstrated creativity and expertise and applying specialist professional knowledge to deliver high quality results / technical solutions collaborates in devising long-term concepts may include team lead or supervisory responsibilities.
• Contributes independently, resolves complex issues in own specialist area (e.g. cross-functional or cross-country projects)
• Works independently on topics while setting priorities having sole responsibility provides regular project status and updates
• decisions/solutions can enhance essentially current and future design and strategy enhance complex systems & processes
• Experience advanced technical or business skills and special knowledge in one / several areas individuals with a customer focus have developed the acumen to cultivate and develop lasting customer relations typically several years experience with increasing amount of responsibility
• Builds and maintains partnerships with internal and external customers and partners contributes actively to build common ground for cooperation
• Communicates clear and conveying processes & policies in a way that others can understand
• Communicates relevant messages in a timely manner and with constructive feedback to cross functional colleagues & managers

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.

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Requisition ID: 444474 | Work Area: Sales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid