Business Support Team Lead (BASE)

 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.

What you’ll do

In your role as Team Lead, you manage and empower your team to succeed by embracing our support strategy and ensuring focus on our goals. You use empathy and business acumen to raise support performance and business impact. To succeed in this role, you will balance your energy and attention along three main areas: Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management, and Support Performance along our objectives.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Contributing to the team strategy, set-up and align capacity, refine processes for best-in-class support execution and business contribution
• Leading and managing your team including talent and career evolution, performance, enablement, compliance, capacity… along SAPs values and leadership principles
• Building and engaging with your network of business stakeholders and support peers to make your team a trusted partner who can deliver with expertise today and build the knowhow for the future
• Being a change agent who removes barriers by analyzing and presenting our users’ and teams’ needs with a solution-oriented, can-do mindset
• Engaging in critical situations proactively and hands-on, handling escalations within defined paths, enforcing and monitoring quality support standards while keeping an eye on balance and health, aiming to reduce repeat situations
• Understanding and contributing to our end-to-end support value chain, you may develop expertise in one area but also sponsor cross team projects or topics to raise our overall efficiency and evolution of our organization

What you bring

Do you feel inspired by leading people with purpose and towards impact? Are you familiar with the ins-and-outs of business support? Are you comfortable in engaging and challenging the status quo to raise support impact to the next level? If yes, then here are some additional elements we are looking for:

• Proven track-record of leading – either dynamic projects with complex stakeholders or diverse teams; supervisor or virtual team leadership are a plus
• Excellent communication – written, spoken, interpersonal
• A trusted partner who knows how to balance empathy, business priorities, and is able to set boundaries
• Strategic thinking abilities – connecting the dots to address current concerns and build the path for the future
• An enabler and multiplier, not afraid to take risks and share
• A bridge to connect and balance business asks with support readiness and technical opportunities
• An engaged leader who can inspire, coach, and guide his/her future team

Meet your team

The Business Agility, Support and Enablement team is the liaison between customer-facing roles and their daily applications, sales processes, and technical development. We specialize on bringing high quality, user-oriented support to make complex situations simple and connect the dots for a smoother end-to-end experience. This includes training and informing our users along each step of the way. The team is spread across the world with three main hubs in Prague, Manila, and Buenos Aires. Our team members are motivated and committed to collaborate and partner for success, aspiring to be a best-in-class support unit.

​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: 404045  | Work Area: Sales Operations  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.