Specialist Customer Success Partner (S-CSP)

at SAP in Chicago, Illinois, United States

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.

Specialist Customer Success Partners (S-CSPs) have overall responsibility for the daily management of assigned cloud customer accounts. This includes account management strategies, developing and managing engagement and expansion plans, and delivery of Customer Success services to ensure product consumption and product usage growth. The focus of this position is two-fold: to maximize the value for customers of their investments in SAP SPM cloud products and promote revenue growth and protection.

The S-CSP SPM role is a specialist role within the Sales Performance Management (SPM) domain. Its responsibility is to be the primary point of contact for our customers stakeholders, including Sales Operations, Finance and IT organizations and stakeholders from multiple levels within our customers organizations (from administrators and practitioners to the C-Suite). The S-CSP SPM role requires knowledge that spans from SaaS to incentive management practices.

Key Responsibilities:

S-CSPs enable their customers long-term success through multiple account management avenues. These are some of the core account management practices utilized.

+ Working proactively with customers to develop their roadmap to improve consumption and maximizing the value of the customers subscriptions

+ Complete Relationship Assessments, Outcome Success Plans, initiate tracking, and maintain associated tasks for each account in the portfolio

+ Providing leading practice advice and guidance to customers for operating their SAP SPM cloud solutions and related governance

+ Understanding customers business models, priorities, objectives, and goals to identify potential operational and commercial risks, retain current revenue footprint and look for expansion opportunities

+ Developing and executing a proactive customer first renewal and expansion plan in conjunction with other internal SAP account team members

+ Utilizing commercial and business acumen for commercial queries and to ensure licensing compliance, renewal forecast, and optimized contractual opportunities

+ Understanding and leveraging Customer Success services and tools to drive maximum value to customers

Basic Qualifications:

+ 5 years of experience managing complex customer engagements or other customer facing experience

+ A selfstarter, with energy, drive, the ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently and problem solve

+ Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to credibly present and communicate recommendations to senior management in organizations.

+ Experience in SAP Sales Performance Management solutions, sales operations, incentive management, IT, Healthcare and Financial Services is not required but highly valued

+ Experience developing account management plans and with contract negotiations is not required but highly valued

+ Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook

+ Bachelors degree or equivalent

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

SAPs 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.

Compensation Range Transparency : SAPbelieves the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAPs commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 116,400 – 251,800 USD.The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidatewill be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills,experience, scope ofthe role, location, etc. as determinedthrough theselection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits (https://www.sapnorthamericabenefits.com/en/public/welcome) .

Requisition ID: 400839| Work Area:Sales| Expected Travel: 0 – 10%| Career Status: Professional| Employment Type: Regular Full Time| Additional Locations:#LI-Hybrid