SAP S4HANA Global Lead Innovation Incubation for Industries 415168

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Position Overview:

We seek a highly experienced industry expert in Innovation including SAP Business AI & Generative AI to join our Cloud ERP IE CoE team. With our mandate for Cloud ERP to infuse Innovation & Business AI adoption across our customers globally you will support us in driving key strategic Innovation Incubation & Evangelism topics.

This role involves helping customers understand and devise an innovation strategy including AI for business transformation and benefits and working with Clevel customers and industry leaders. The candidate will have extensive experience in the usage and of strategic Innovation programs including Business AI Generative AI and Innovation adoption strategies with a proven track record of over 20 years across different business and industry domains on a global scale.

What you will do:

1. Regional Customer Nominations & CXO Engagement: You will play a crucial role in dealing with regional customer nominations and engaging with CXOs to drive Innovation & AI adoption
   
2. Incubating new/upcoming and onthehorizon Innovation technologies including Business AI Agentic AI etc. and infusing them with Industry Business Processes for building our Innovation Strategy for customer adoption.
   1. You will promote Innovation Agentic AI and other upcoming technologies across the organisation and among customers by demonstrating their value and potential impact on Business. This will involve building the first MVP concepts and working with the product teams to identify and define their usage for SAP S/4HANA customers.
      
3. Engaging with industry forums conferences and thought leadership platforms to share insights and advancements in upcoming Innovation & Business AI / Gen AI technologies e.g Knowledge Graphs Agentic AI and Data oriented tech through a crossover with Industries & loB Business processes
   
4. Define and invent industryfirst solutions with Innovation Gen AI / Business AI across the SAP domain including migrations.
   
5. The candidate will collaborate with crossfunctional teams including software engineers and business stakeholders to align Innovation initiatives with organisational goals.

This pivotal role involves helping customers understand and devise an Innovation strategy incl AI for business transformation and benefits. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the usage and of Innovation strategies generative AI strategies with a proven track record of over 20 years across different business and industry domains on a global scale.

The candidate will lead the design and implementation of our groups Innovation & artificial intelligence strategies and solutions. As an Innovation Leader you will define the overall Innovation architecture frameworks and methodologies to drive innovation and solve complex business challenges specific to Innovation & AI for Industries. You will collaborate with crossfunctional teams including data scientists software engineers and business stakeholders to align AI initiatives with organisational goals. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with deep technical expertise in AI excellent leadership skills

Key Responsibilities:

Innovation Strategy Development:

• Collaborate with customers to understand their business needs and develop tailored Innovation strategies for business transformation.
• Provide expert guidance on implementing generative AI technologies to enhance business processes and outcomes.
• Stay abreast of the latest trends and advancements in AI to ensure our strategies remain cuttingedge.

Technology Evaluation:

• Evaluate emerging technologies frameworks and tools to assess their suitability and potential impact on the groups Innovation & AI capabilities.

Innovation Solution Design:

• Collaborate with data scientists software engineers and domain experts to design endtoend AI solutions that align with business requirements ensuring scalability performance and maintainability.

Data Architecture:

• Define the data architecture pipelines and integration strategies required to support AI initiatives including data ingestion storage transformation and retrieval.

• goals and meet performance accuracy and interpretability requirements.

Team Leadership and Collaboration:

• Support a team of Technofunctional Industry experts and engineers providing technical guidance mentorship and fostering collaboration across teams to achieve successful AI solution deployments.

Industry Knowledge and Innovation:

• Stay abreast of the latest trends advancements and best practices in AI actively seeking opportunities to drive innovation and introduce new AI capabilities to the organization.
• Represent the company as an industry thought leader at conferences webinars and industry events.
• Contribute to the development of white papers case studies and other thought leadership content.
• Drive innovation by identifying new Innovation use cases and opportunities for business transformation.

Qualifications:

Extensive experience in designing and architecting technofunctional solutions in AI Innovation and upcoming technologies with a strong understanding of machine learning deep learning and data analytics techniques.

Experience: Minimum of 20 years of experience in various business and industry domains at a global level with a strong focus on Innovation AI and digital transformation.

Expertise: Deep understanding of upcoming & new technologies and their application in business contexts including AI & Gen AI

Education: Advanced degree in Computer Science Engineering Business Administration or a related field. Ph.D. preferred.

Skills:

• Strong strategic thinking and problemsolving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.
• Proven ability to build and execute complex AI strategies.
• Experience in developing and managing industryspecific GTM and portfolio strategies.
• Strong relationshipbuilding and customer engagement skills.

Leadership: Demonstrated leadership experience with the ability to influence and drive change across organisations.

Bring out your best

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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.
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Requisition ID: 415168 Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services Expected Travel: 0 10 Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LIHybrid.