Associate Project Manager(PM) - Customer Services & Delivery Academy

 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.

About the Customer Services & Delivery (CS&D) Academy

The 'Customer Services & Delivery' Academy is a 12-18 months program to start your career. This program consists of classroom-based learning with rotation opportunities with a predefined focus role within the business. 

As an associate PM you will drive our SAP Implementation (Professional Service) and you will act as SAP's front office lead, aligned with customer's Project organization and/or relative IT/Business organization.

Potential Skills a successful candidate can achieve being full-time Associate Project Manager:

• Strong customer engagement skills and developing into a Trusted Advisor within a client by considering the balance between customer needs and project scope.
• For driving individual project you will execute project management works such as Issue/Time/Cost/Risk/Communication/Quality/Resource/Session Managements.
• Understand SAP project methodology and adopt them to project.
• Coordinate involvement of SAP consultants and support resources and lead them in project.
• Properly make reports and escalation to management or executive level.
• Gain experience in design, implementation, and change management projects.
• Understanding an overall enterprise architecture across private cloud, SaaS, and on-premise solutions including integration
• Business acumen understanding: ACV (annual contract value) contract renewal, solutioning, procurement, customer retention, managing P&L on contract level

What you bring  

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (full-time) preferably in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
• 0-5 years' work experience with customer facing roles required
• Basic understanding of Enterprise Architecture (EA) across private cloud, SaaS (Software as a Service), and on-premise solutions, including integration.
• Interested in technology, innovation, and how digital platforms can solve business challenges.
• Team player with ability to work independently and take ownership of assigned tasks
• Good listener with excellent communication skills, empathetic, collaborative 
• Resourceful self-starters with strong interpersonal skills who are eager learners

What you'll do 

• Learn and understand the 'Customer Services & Delivery (CS&D)' business as well as specific cloud SAP products 
• Conduct job rotations within different lines of business  such as consulting, project management, technical and solution support. 
• Case studies, classroom and self-paced learnings with a mix of technical and soft skill topics and on-the job training with the support of buddies and coaches 
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Displaying effective communication skills to handle and explain customer situations (to both business end users and SAP technical/ functional consultants)
• Adapt to knowledge on new technologies in a consistently dynamic and changing environment
• Work with partners, customers and internal SAP teams to enforce adoption of Rise with SAP methodology and associated tools like CALM, Signavio, Enable Now, BTP etc. to make the best usage of the investment of end customers.

​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: 409490  | Work Area: Administration  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Graduate  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.