PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
SAP Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one of the most dynamic organizational entities within SAP with extraordinary perspectives for growth. SAP MENA has recently announced AED 1.65 Billion (US $450M) of additional spend in MENA over the next four years. This commitment is expected to accelerate our business growth - quadrupling revenues by 2015 - as well as enable MENA to become one of the top 10 growth markets for SAP globally.
In order to achieve our ambitious targets and objectives in MENA, we are currently looking for skilled Solution Architect (who will be in charge of ensuring that the SAP footprint and roadmap at our key customers in the region is defined and extended.
Take the opportunity to join an international community of SAP experts, implement software on projects, build strong customer relationships and gain cultural experience. Set a serious foundation for future career steps.
As an industry thought leadership role, be able to engage deeply with customer in understanding business requirements, evolving the desired solution landscape, and positioning new solutions and services to customers around key business process areas. This is key "value-generation" role within this customer engagement. In this endeavor, you will complement the account teams by working closely with IBU, CD, GDC and other internal entities, in evolving and packaging unique solutions. An ability to think strategically, to develop and document a long term roadmap and to define a solution landscape is of high importance.
An in-depth knowledge of SAP's solutions and offerings would be necessary to provide a comprehensive answers solution offering to customers.
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
* Take a leadership role in engaging with key customers - portray a trusted-advisory role and represent SAP solutions and processes
* Engage with C-level stake holders in understanding business requirements, current solution landscape and propose new solutions and applications that provide enhanced value from customer perspective
* Solution Definition: High-Level overall solution design, 'Best of breed' approach, design to budget. Technical/application assessments for projects in terms of feasibility, effort, risk. Define & architect the design for custom solutions
* Development: Main focus on high risk projects. Coaching of architects in corresponding subprojects. High level assessments of projects during specification/realization phase. Improve/Optimize related processes, initiate innovative approaches
* Quality Management: Participate in project quality management tasks such as peer and quality reviews of specifications and design documents
* Lead of project teams / Coaching: Takes responsibility from time to time as team lead and supports respective project and line manager(s)
* Hands-on experience on product areas, ability to create demo scripts and configure scenarios in SAP
* Create a compelling solution framework including the solution process landscape, integration touch-points and showcase business benefits / RoI calculations
* Work on customer RFP's with account teams, develop the necessary value-proposition and package the service offerings to land a winning deal
* Provide expert consulting services for the customer's projects around key solution areas
* Work closely with account teams in prospecting new / increased opportunities and engagements
* Manage internal and external stakeholders, esp. in new / ramp up solution deployment
* Contribute to enhancing the knowledge management process within the industry - create business best practices, process flows, templates and support packaged service offerings where necessary
* Participates in project reviews and creates action plans to bring escalated projects back on track
WORK EXPERIENCE
* Brings along at least 12-15 years of industry / project managemen
Job Details
| Date Posted: | 2013-06-21 |
| Job Location: | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Job Role: | Other |
| Company Industry: | Consulting Services |
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