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The Role

• The role is part of the APAC Product, Marketing & Operations team and is responsible for helping support Lumen’s Enterprise Applications - SAP business across the Asia-Pacific region.

The Main Responsibilities

• ​Reporting into the Senior Manager, SAP Practice, this position will have 3 core responsibilities which include Project management, Pre-sales as well as providing SAP Functional expertise.
• Pre-sales responsibilities will involve guiding and supporting the APAC Sales and Solution Engineering teams in positioning and selling Lumen’s Enterprise Applications - SAP offerings with existing as well as new logo customers to ensure annual sales targets for the Enterprise Applications business are met.
• Project management responsibilities include performing end to end management of SAP projects for customers that can include SAP S/4HANA Implementations, Upgrades, Cloud migrations or Application Management Services.
• There is a need to ensure SAP projects are managed, tracked and delivered as per the committed schedule, meeting the project objectives with minimal deviations and within the timeline and resources planned.
• SAP functional responsibilities includes providing customer sap application consulting services, working with customers on application requirement, mapping to timeline, work with SAP functional consultants to deliver the functional requirements.

What We Look For in a Candidate

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science required from an accredited university with more than 10 years in corporate IT environment
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience as an SAP Project Manager / Functional Lead with at least 3 full lifecycle SAP implementation, upgrade or migration projects.
• A minimum of 1 full lifecycle of a SAP S/4HANA implementation / conversion project is required.
• Strong consultative skills with the ability to define and articulate value propositions for customer solutions in support of SAP migrations/ implementations / upgrades.
• Proven Project management record handling SAP implementation/upgrade/migration project 
• End to end pre-sales experience including SAP project sizing, responding to RFPs, performing C-Level client presentations and coordinating with delivery teams.
• Deep and broad technical knowledge of SAP applications including SAP S/4HANA, ERP 6.0, BW, CRM, SRM, EP, HANA, PO, BOBJ, SAP Cloud solutions etc.
• Deep knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA technology including features, capabilities, and application integration.
• Prior experience interfacing with account teams, customer IT and executive management to define requirements, provide technical/application advisory as well as recommend / propose solutions. 
• Hands on experience with full life cycle implementation of 3 or more SAP projects.
• Ability to lead application/technical teams or work independently to provide application/architectural guidance.
• Experience managing customers for on-going SAP Application Management Services / Managed Services is preferred.

What to Expect Next

Requisition #: 320191

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Disclaimer
The above job definition information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.  Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on changing business needs and conditions.