BTP Ecosystem Development Senior Specialist for Top Partner Engagement

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Job Title: BTPEcosystem Development Senior Specialist for Top Partner Engagement

What Youll Build:
As an Ecosystem Development Senior Specialist at SAP for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) you will drive ecosystem development strategies acting as a trusted consultant and thought leader for our top partners. Your role will be instrumental in guiding partner investments in SAP solutions including Cloud LoB Data Business Technology Platform and Artificial Intelligence (AI). You will harness your expertise to foster relationships and influence partners to enhance their sales strategies co-innovation projects and implementation approaches. Additionally you will ensure seamless coordination with SAPs account teams and the broader global partner network.

Key Responsibilities:

Be the Strategic Connector & Innovator:

• Cultivate and maintain deep strategic relationships with key SAP BTP contacts on the partner side and be the best networked individual in the partners organization to maximize LoB outcomes.
• Maintain a relationship map including a clear overview of all relevant stakeholders and their current perspective on SAP (e.g. detractor promotor neutral) to ensure transparency alignment and effective collaboration with SAP BTP leadership (e.g. CRO CPO CMO and others).

Drive Strategic Initiatives & Joint Business Planning:

• Build an annual joint business plan specific for SAP BTP for all key partners with clearly formulated goals objectives and an execution plan.
• Each plan will integrate with SAPs overall business objectives and include joint agreements on e.g. pipeline and bookings target industries and accounts solution experience joint go-to-market initiatives joint innovation (e.g. new AI use-cases or SAP Business Data Cloud Insight Apps) joint events joint content strategy (e.g. white-papers blogs etc.) and joint thought leadership.

Execution Engine & Foster Ecosystem Development:

• Actively drive the execution of the business plan by running weekly forecast calls addressing issues in a constructive and productive manner (e.g. partner recommending competitive solutions in jointly aligned industries) navigating the partner and SAP organization to get the right people work on the most important initiatives driving accountability etc.
• Collaborate with regional EDMs for SAP BTP and strategic Partner Managers to execute partner business plans promoting investment in SAPs Cloud solutions and accelerating demand generation efforts.
• Support partner readiness across the entire customer lifecycle acting as a trusted advisor during pre-sales and post-sales activities.
• Drive partner transformation facilitating enablement programs to scale partners cloud delivery practices and capabilities.
• Ensure successful customer outcomes with smooth high-quality go-lives prioritizing partner implementation excellence and customer satisfaction.

Stay close to key deals:

• Connect SAP account teams to the relevant account / industry / tech teams on the partner side to drive success in key pipeline deals.

• Empower SAP account teams and partners to collaborate effectively ensuring a mutual emphasis on the unique value and benefits of SAP solutions.
• Work closely with partner network to identify and co-develop new business opportunities expanding our shared strategic pipeline for mutual growth and success.

What Youll Bring:

• 5 years of experience in Business Development Solution Advisory or Partner Management with over 3 years of specialized expertise in platform-as-service enterprise-wide integration application development automation and artificial intelligence technologies
• Strong networking skills with Solution Area-specific stakeholders and a proven track record of fostering successful partnerships.
• A passion for cross-organizational collaboration and the ability to coordinate diverse stakeholders to nurture and advance partner relationships.

Where Youll Belong:
As a member of SAPs Partner Ecosystem Success organization you will be part of the Partner Business Growth pillar which focuses on enhancing domain expertise and investment with partners ensuring delivery excellence and evolving SAPs PartnerEdge program in line with strategic goals. You will collaborate with Solution Area teams in Customer Success Product Engineering and global and regional partner teams to drive innovation and growth.

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.

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Requisition ID: 443221 Work Area: Sales Expected Travel: 0 - 30% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid