Solution Customer Success Manager for HCM SuccessFactors

We help the world run better At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters.

You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

The Solution Customer Success Manager (S-CSM) proactively and consistently engages with their customers helping them achieve lifetime business value and success in their specific business solution area. Working together with key and executive stakeholders, the S-CSM uses business and solution expertise to accelerate value attainment and orchestrates the critical customer and SAP activities for ensuring effective delivery of customer outcomes. They assist customers in identifying opportunities to maximize, accelerate and grow their adoption and business value.

The S-CSM uses their domain expertise and the Outcome Success Plan to orchestrate SAP resources, targeted services and Partners to identify opportunities, address gaps and expand SAP’s footprint helping minimize churn risk and to maximize customer satisfaction and growth. The S-CSM is accountable to LOB solution success and responsible to the enterprise for customer outcomes.

What you’ll do:

• Identify new opportunities for customers to leverage new or expanded SAP solutions
• Mitigate churn and manage renewals of SAP solutions/services
• Identify sales leads and support sales in expansion and upsell efforts
• Manage through crisis and de‑escalate customer situations
• Drive renewals, expansions, and up‑sells of subscription or perpetual license‑based solutions

What you bring:

• Strong executive presence and relationship building skills
• Deep knowledge of business models, strategies, and line of business processes
• Proven ability to handle difficult customer situations and discuss complex issues with customer executives
• Experience with cloud software solutions and delivery models
• Expert level buying center/Lines of Business domain expertise
• Ability to apply risk‑mitigation strategies to customer situations
• Knowledge of SAP solutions portfolio and the business processes they enable
• Some technical understanding for assigned solution area to address technical issues with customers
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
• Experience in business software
• Knowledge of SAAS and IAAS processes
• Strong program/project management and governance skills
• Expert commercial/deal support skills
• Relationship‑driven mindset with excellent verbal and non‑verbal communication skills
• Experience driving renewals, expansions, and up‑sells of subscription or perpetual license‑based solutions

Meet your team: You will work closely with SAP MU leadership, account teams, industry teams, and solution management organization. You will also coordinate internal SAP and partner resources to ensure value delivery.

Skills you’ll use:

Professional Skills:

• Business Acumen
• Complex Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Customer Orientation
• Establish Trust
• Influencing Skills

Tech Industry & SAP General Skills:

• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Artificial Intelligence
• Software-as-a-Service
• Technology Innovation
• SAP Cloud Suite Portfolio
• RISE and GROW with SAP

Role Specific Skills:

• Customer Value Journey Alignment
• Account Governance
• Account Strategy
• Customer Success Management
• Customer Retention
• Relationship Building
• Technology Solution Adoption
• Overcoming Objections

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