Partner Engagement Senior Specialist (m/w/d)

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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.

What You’ll Build:
As an SCM Ecosystem Development Manager at SAP, you will drive the supply chain ecosystem development strategies, acting as a trusted consultant and thought leader for our most strategic partners. Your role will be instrumental in guiding partner investments in SAP SCM portfolio of solutions, from Design to Operate, including Data, BTP and AI. You will harness your expertise to build and influence senior partner relationships, shaping sales strategies, co-innovation initiatives, implementation models, and sustained partner investment in scaling new solutions. Additionally, you will ensure seamless coordination across SAP teams, sales, presales, marketing, development, solution advisory and the broader global partner network.

Key Responsibilities:

Be a Strategic Connector & Innovator:

• Cultivate and maintain deep, strategic relationships with key domain experts within top partners for each Solution Area, enhancing their sales and implementation capabilities.
• Establish and lead the Global Partnership Plan across Sales, Delivery, Marketing, and Innovation, with executive-level governance including joint KPIs, monthly operating reviews, and quarterly executive business reviews.
• Define and drive top strategic initiatives through design-thinking workshops, solution deep dives, and the creation of industry-relevant sales plays and offerings for priority customer segments. Collaborate closely with SCM product development, solution advisory, product marketing, and enablement teams to accelerate time to market.
• Partner with regional supply chain leaders to ensure strong alignment, disciplined regional execution, and clear accountability for quarterly performance outcomes.
• Identify and establish new, right-fit partnerships, developing roadmaps to revenue and maximizing customer lifetime value.
• Act as a subject matter expert and thought leader, creating feedback loops for future innovation and business growth.

Drive Strategic Initiatives & Joint Business Planning:

• Identify top partners per Solution Area based on set criteria and collaborate to develop comprehensive, annual strategic business plans. Ensure integration with SAP’s overall business objectives and define clear goals, focus areas, and execution strategies.
• Establish go-to-market (GTM) strategies across partners, encouraging the adoption of SAP innovations and fostering expansion across lines of business towards comprehensive Suite coverage.

Execute & Foster Ecosystem Development:

• Collaborate with regional Enterprise Demand Management (EDM) and strategic partner teams to execute partner business plans, promoting investment in SAP’s newer solutions and accelerating demand generation efforts.
• Support partner readiness across the entire customer lifecycle, acting as a trusted advisor during pre-sales and post-sales activities.
• Drive partner transformation, facilitating enablement programs to scale partners’ cloud delivery practices and capabilities.
• Ensure successful customer outcomes with smooth, high-quality go-lives, prioritizing partner implementation excellence and customer satisfaction.

What You’ll Bring:

• 5-10 years of experience in SAP Supply Chain solution expertise across Business Development, Solution Advisory, and Partner Management.
• Strong executive presence, communication and networking skills with supply chain stakeholders and a proven track record of fostering successful partnerships.
• Strategic thinking with proven leadership in complex, global program and portfolio management.
• A passion for cross-organizational collaboration and the ability to coordinate diverse stakeholders to nurture and advance partner relationships.
• Fluent German and English language skills

Where You’ll Belong:
As a member of SAP’s Partner Ecosystem Success organization, you will be part of the Partner Business Growth pillar, which focuses on enhancing domain expertise and investment with partners, ensuring delivery excellence, and evolving SAP’s PartnerEdge program in line with strategic goals. You will collaborate with Solution Area teams in Customer Success, Product Engineering, and global and regional partner teams to drive innovation and growth.

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.