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About the Team: 

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services accelerates and simplifies customers’ business transformation by running their SAP ERP Value stack with a world class level of availability, security & resilience on their preferred cloud infrastructure including Hyperscalers, their own data center, and the SAP data center allowing them to turn into cost-effective intelligent enterprises.

 

The SAP Enterprise Cloud Services portfolio - comprising private managed cloud deployment options for RISE with SAP and full SAP ERP value-adding SAP Cloud Application Services - empowers customers to run a modern, intelligent ERP system in the cloud. We offer customers a scalable and adaptable operating model, resilient best in class technology, and assured IT governance to ensure production availability across the application and infrastructure landscape. 

With our functional and technical services customers have the same level of control in a cloud environment as they may know from on-premise. Layering additional SAP Cloud Applications Services packages, customers can focus on innovation for the future with a focus on flexibility and simplification.

 

Within ECS, the Customer Escalation Team is responsible for Critical Incident and Customer Management, as well as the proactive safeguarding of the strategic ECS accounts globally. The ECS Customer Escalation Team will focus on end-to-end customer satisfaction and retention and act as an official input channel to Delivery teams for the prioritization of continuous improvement initiatives.

 

What You'll Do: 

The ECS De-Escalation Officer will act as De-Escalation Architect for Critical Incidents in close collaboration with the Mission Control Center which is part of Customer Solution Support & Innovation under PE board area with a 24x7 coverage. The goal is to bring the customer’s core business processes up and running again as soon as possible. The ECS De-Escalation Officer also act as Critical Customer Manager responsible for Critical Customer situations, including the definition of Top Issues and Action Plans, coordinating across different Lines of Business (LoB’s) and reporting back to senior management stakeholders. Last but not least the ECS De-Escalation Officer will support projects and initiatives around continuous improvement topics for end-to-end customer experience in the Enterprise Cloud Services and act as an official input channel to Delivery teams on the same.

 

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

Owns critical incident/situation (escalation level 2 = incident escalation/production down) and creates the overall Action Plan with input of the Cloud Major Incident Manager (MIM), Manager on Duty (MoD) & experts from various areas of Delivery teams and Customer Solution Support focusing on Japan ECS customers.

Support Critical Customer Management to de-escalate the situation by tracking the defined top issue and action plan, coordinating the internal and external communication, with potential remote/onsite activities focusing on Japan ECS customers.

Understand the pain points of regional (top) customers and translating them into improvement initiatives across our ECS delivery organization. E.g. quality improvement in daily stand-up call focusing on Japan.

Collaborate with ECS team (CDM/TSM/PL/PC3 team,etc) to proactive review potential critical situation and support to create back to green plan.

Support and executing strategic customer initiatives, by identifying and implementing pro-active safeguarding measures such as customer engagement reviews for our top accounts.

Support other initiatives and service delivery on global level as well.

 

What You Bring: 

Required skills

Business communication skill in Japanese with communication and presentation skills in English

Proven track record in managing client / customer engagements either in Sales / Pre-Sales, Consulting, Hosting or Customer Solution Support Environment

Accustomed to working in an international / global virtual matrix organization

Ability to work across Board Areas, LoB and organizational boundaries

Well-developed analytical and structuring skills

Good technical understanding of IaaS offerings and architectural layers

Experience in SAP either application or technical areas

 

Preferred skills

Good understanding of SAP’s ReInvent strategy of Winning in the Cloud and Moving our Installed Base to the cloud, Perspective on current Cloud Hosting trends and their impact on business strategies

Good understanding of SAP ECS and private Cloud Delivery.

Good understanding or have experience with SAP Customer De-Escalation and SAP Mission Critical Support processes.

Experience with senior executive’s communication including customer C-level stakeholders during escalating situations

Knowledge of SAP supporting tools (minimum basic understanding)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

5 – 7 years professional experience, out of which minimum 2 years in similar position

 

LOCATION

Shanghai or Dalian, China

 

EXPECTED TRAVEL

0-10%

 

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​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: 407906  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.