Technical Director on Apps/Cloud/AI - Strategic Account Team - SH/BJ/SZ

SAP

  • Shanghai
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 23 days ago
We help the world run betterAt 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.T4PM (Manager)Team scope: 1+7​Accountability
  • Manages resources ,ensuring business critical & innovative results
  • Builds action plans and makes operational decisions on policies, tactics, resources critical to the function's business success to ensure delivery against strategy of the function or team
  • Accountable for annual goals established for team or department
  • Directs activities of a team or department of professionals and supports staff
  • Tracks single budget line
Complexity
  • Makes day to day decisions within or for a team or department
  • Works collaboratively with direct reports
  • Regularly applies expertise in day-to-day activities
Experience
  • Increasing managerial experience
  • Sound professional experience
  • Demonstrates all management responsibilities: create the future; build a team; develop people; manage performance
Communication
  • Builds strategic partnerships with key decision makers in customer & partner organization
  • Represents SAP to customers / partners
  • Encourages and develops team to cooperate and to freely express their opinions
  • Formulates clear objectives and strategies and work assignments
  • Communicates unpleasant messages in a timely and constructive manner to team
  • Listens openly and attentively to fully understand ideas and opinions within the tea
This role manages the Solution Advisor team that brings expert level solution and business process knowledge to customers by demonstrating a compelling vision of the future with SAP/partner solutions. They manage all solution requirements for the account team, identifying, qualifying and demonstrating how SAP can provide the best solution to achieve their business outcomes. The Manager engages memorably and guides the delivery of customer experiences with stories that differentiate with business outcomes. They support the team's activities to ensure customers fully realize the value of SAP's solutions and are eager to renew.Account Team Engagement
  • Ensure the team engages with customers early in the sales cycle by matching customer needs to SAP solutions and qualifying the opportunity against a probability of success.
  • Support new sales and adoption via a team with deep solution-specific expertise and competitive differentiation knowledge.
  • Provide thought leadership to the Solution Advisors and account team on the development of the account strategy.
  • Guide direct team and account team in creation of overall theme and competitive differentiation (value wedges) and the execution of dry runs on strategic deals and customer engagements.
  • Engage customers through impactful storytelling.
  • Provide answers to customer / internal SAP team inquiries concerning advanced solution topics focusing on driving customer success and business outcomes.
  • Encourage consistent messaging and the employ of digital assets in all customer engagements, including recorded demos, presentations, microsites and other content created by SAP's Global Digital Content Factory.
Customer Lifecycle Engagement:
  • Guide the effective transition of key details from the customer journey to On-Boarding teams / partner / Field Services.
Drive adoption by guiding the team sell the vision and impact of SAP's solutions post-selection.
  • Provide expertise through customers' successful deployments and realization of value, and build the team's knowledge in the same.
  • Encourage the team to expand the SAP footprint by showing how other SAP solutions can be leveraged to address other areas of their business.
Talent Engagement:
  • Articulate a clear vision and priorities for the customer Solution Advisor team and support the success of direct reports, the account team and all employees in the team surrounding - including partners.
  • Ensure all contribute to the business goals of SAP and of the customer.
  • Ensure all are actively transferring knowledge to colleagues - particularly those early on their learning curve.
  • Provide feedback, coaching and development opportunities
#GCCC2025​Bring out your bestSAP 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 inclusionSAP'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.
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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.Requisition ID: 431443 | Work Area: Presales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Management | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.Requisition ID: 431443Posted Date: Aug 13, 2025Work Area: PresalesCareer Status: ManagementEmployment Type: Regular Full TimeExpected Travel: 0 - 10%Location:Shanghai, CN, 200040Job alert

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