**Bring out your best** The Senior Engagement Engineer works for customers with Engagement contracts, such as SAP MaxAttention or SAP ActiveAttention. The aim of this role is to establish and support a long-term engagement between the customer and SAP. Engagements will cover topics related to operation and the adoption of digital innovation in SAP centric solutions. Based on a strong organization and network and a sound understanding of the customer situation the Senior Engagement Engineer provides advice and drives the delivery of relevant premium engagement services to pro-actively prevent or to resolve critical situations. In complex environments the Senior Engagement Engineer is working in a team with more experienced colleagues. Customer Understanding and Situation Analysis: - Understand Customer's Business (e.g. business challenges and pain points, industry specifics) - Understand Customer Organization (e.g. Stakeholder, Implementation Partners, Service Providers) - Understand SAP at Customer (e.g. current contractual footprint, past escalations, customer feedback provided to SAP) - Support analyzing current customer situation, maturity of SAP solution operations, IT service delivery and transformation to intelligent, sustainable enterprise opportunities Engagement Setup: - Explain the scope of the engagement with the customer - Understand engagement and innovation roadmap, focus areas and high-level delivery plan - Understand goals and Key Performance Indicators for the engagement - Agree and implement governance model (e.g. Meeting Cadence, Escalation Path) - Expedite SAP's collaboration platform (Cloud ALM) at the customer - Explain initial action and service plan to the customer Engagement Governance - Align Service Plans with the account team - Contribute to Executive Meetings. Provide a Balanced Score Card based overview of the engagement to demonstrate the value delivered. - Understand Engagement Performance expectations and adhere to Delivery Standards and KPIs Engagement Development - Highlight premium engagement delivery opportunities to front-office team or to manager - Support the Premium Engagement contract renewal Customer Relationship Management - Establish trusted relationship with customer - Own the communication for own engineering topics between the customer's organization and SAP CSS during the engagement lifecycle - Support Capturing customer experience (reference calls, videos, success stories, etc.) - Align, schedule, trigger, and follow-up on customer feedback (e.g. Medallia Survey) Engagement Management & Planning - Know the status of the Premium Engagement contract and Premium Engagement guidelines - Use the support ecosystem to find relevant SAP delivery portfolio and find the best possible way to deliver effectively for maximizing the customer value and increasing SAP delivery efficiency - Manage a long-term engagement plan based on customer's projects and top issues - React on short term needs when having to avoid issues Anticipation and identification of risks and top issues - Identify & assess potential IT Issues and Risks - Provide advice on issue resolution - Involve SAP Backoffice organization, SAP experts, as well as experts from the customer and partners if deeper expertise is required - Create an action plan for resolution of the customer's issues and top issues. - Document top issues to provide transparency on status and progress throughout SAP Escalation Management for critical situations - Understand importance of all issues raised, and recommendations given in SAP CSS Services - Support condensing issues to top issues and ensure resolution thereof according to engagement deliverables - Escalate critical situations with SAP and customer top management when required - Highlight maintenance at risk situations Engagement Delivery - Manage execution of the 'Engagement Plan' by aligning, scheduling, scoping, ordering and support of services contained in service plans - Prepare the customer contacts for upcoming service delivery - Prepare remote and on-site teams with customer specific information - Follow up service deliveries to ensure value realization and visibility of value delivered to customer Documentation and reporting of Engagement status, action and value - Regularly report the status of engagement deliverables, accomplishments and value to the customer or the front-office team Expedite SAP Solution Manager as collaboration platform - Highlight the benefit of SAP Solution Manager in the customer context - Provide guidance on how to make the Solution Manager ready for delivery. Internal Feedback - Provide feedback on improvement potential for SAP engagement and service delivery - Plan and forecast revenue based on service plan and delivery execution Support ES (Enterprise Support) or PSLE (Product Support for Large Enterprises) delivery - Instruct customer on SAP's Support processes to drive efficient incident resolution - Support adequate de