SAP Manufacturing Architect (BTS) -- Midwest Market Unit

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Travel: must be open to up to 60 % travel

BTS Job Description:

Overview: Business Transformation Services (BTS) is the advisory arm of the Global Customer Engagement & Services layer in the SAP Customer Service & Delivery (CSD) area. Global Customer Engagement & Services enhances customer trust in their SAP cloud journey roadmap and shortens their time to value for each step during that journey. It offers a unified engagement experience across all CSD offerings. This helps the customers adopt SAP’s solutions faster and unlock economic value in their SAP and IT investments.

Our team draws on insights and experience from years of SAP customer implementations and helps SAP drive the Customer Lifetime Value journey. The BTS Enterprise Architect role will help the customer during the customer’s evaluation phase of SAP’s solutions and subsequently drive their business transformation by adoption of the solutions. We coordinate with Customer Success colleagues within SAP in various RISE motions (greenfield, conversions and selective data transformations) through Next level Adoption and Consumption (NLAC) and classic Go-to-Market.

This is a key customer leadership role, requiring deep knowledge and understanding of SAP solutions (on-premise/cloud) as well as core business processes and industry best practices. Excellent facilitation and communication skills are essential as is the ability to effectively engage with executive stakeholders, partners, and SAP account teams.

Key Competencies:

Manage Architecture and process governance on SAP/partner led projects with focus on Customer lifetime value.
Guide customer teams in using Enterprise Architecture frameworks, establishing governance models, and implementing business process modeling disciplines.
Proven knowledge of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and Toolset.
Work effectively across SAP and customer teams/functions for achievement of business outcomes
Facilitate collaborative architecture discussions with our customers IT and business executives.
Develop 3-5-year strategic roadmaps encompassing the evolution of enterprise business solution portfolios from current to future state.
Leverage industry and SAP reference architectures for successful transformation outcomes

Qualifications:

Strong leadership skills - able to lead customer engagements at an executive level.
Deep business process expertise in at least two or more areas across a customer's value chain
Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills; ability to present and discuss strategies and technical information in a manner that establishes rapport, persuades others, and establishes understanding for technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to propose implementation and deployment alternatives and estimate the financial impact of various options.
Strong understanding of Business Technology Platform components and services such as application development and automation, data and analytics, Integration, and AI capabilities.
Awareness or experience of SAP Integration Advisory Methodology, SAP Extensibility Advisory Methodology, SAP Clean Core principles
Understanding of SAP LeanIX & SAP Signavio as modeling tools for Enterprise Architectures & Business Processes.
7+ years of SAP experience with at least 7+ years consulting experience
7+ years of enterprise architecture (business & IT) experience
Relevant SAP and enterprise architecture certifications such as TOGAF, Open CA (certified architect) are valued.
MBA preferred.

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