SAP Solutioning Lead

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The Solutioning team in Canada provides solutioning and estimation support for SAP Services engagements and program delivery. As a strategic partner, we guide Customers, Sales, and Delivery through prescriptive, agile qualification methods to produce comprehensive, integrated solution proposals that result in success for our customers, partners, and SAP. The team acts as the unifying force behind all Services teams by analyzing, estimating and proposing the right services to implement SAP solutions and drive outcomes for each customer.

What differentiates a Solution Lead:

- Quickly establishes advisory relationship with external and internal customers.
- Creates solutions that provide measurable impact on revenue and margins while delivering customer success.
- Demonstrates effective leadership, owning the solutioning process across a matrixed team to create a viable, rational proposal that delivers customer value in a timely manner.
- Drives S/4HANA & Intelligent Enterprise deployment strategies.
- Actively provides thought leadership within the Solutioning community.
- Brings end-to-end implementation, industry and solution experience to each pursuit.
- Drives SAP Services transformation strategy and policies.

**The following are key skills for a Solution Lead**:

- Customer-centricity with Customer First empathy
- Solid and broad architectural understanding of SAP solutions (technical/functional), thinking like a true Business and IT Architect
- Ability to translate business needs/constraints to SAP Solutions
- Thought leadership on transformation topics.
- S/4HANA passion and expertise, ideally in one of the following areas:

- Intelligent Enterprise
- Innovation Services
- Other cloud solutions and integrations

**Expectations &**Tasks**:
**Job**Tasks**:

- Partner with the Account Team in providing advisory, Solutioning leadership, and assistance in selling Services deals
- Construct competitive deals that provide desired customer business outcomes while achieving SAP’s margin goals
- Take definitive ownership of the Solutioning process as part of a Services Sales pursuit
- Assemble, encourage and keep a matrix team of experts accountable to deliver the expected Solutioning results per pursuit
- Execute stakeholder management, setting and continuously managing expectations throughout the Solutioning process

**As part of the Solutioning process, be responsible**for**:

- Advisory relationship with internal and external customers
- Positioning and selling solutions in partnership with the Account Team
- Driving Solutioning and Scoping meetings with the customer
- Providing customer presentations on implementation approach, scope and estimates
- Building bridges between different parts of SAP to create one integrated solution for the customer
- Supporting the proposal approval and Bid Council process, presenting to SAP executive management as needed
- Accelerate adoption and positioning of strategic topics - e.g., bringing innovation topics like S/4HANA, Software as a Service, Intelligent Enterprise, BTP, RISE into the Opportunity & Delivery processes.
- Provide thought leadership and ownership of continuous improvement of solutioning processes and collateral
- Play an active role in the professional development of Solutioning colleagues
- Generate and own architect practice materials for Solutioning S/4 HANA

**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.

**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.

Due to the nature of the role, which involves global interactions with SAP entities, as well as with employees and stakeholders in Canada, functional proficiency in