SAP Project/ Delivery Manager Sr

Job Description

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Delivery Head

• India Offshore Practice Role Purpose The

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Delivery Head will own the end-to-end delivery, operational performance, financial performance, people leadership, and continuous transformation of the India Offshore

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portfolio . The role is responsible for establishing a high-performing, scalable and commercially effective offshore delivery organization supporting SAP ECC, S/4HANA,

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and associated SAP technologies across multiple clients and industries. The Delivery Head will act as the senior offshore delivery leader for customers and internal stakeholders, ensuring service stability, SLA/KPI achievement, customer satisfaction, margin improvement, resource optimization, automation, and continuous improvement . The role will also partner closely with Sales, Account Management, Solutioning and SAP Practice leadership to grow the AMS portfolio, transition new services into offshore delivery, convert staffing/project engagements into managed services, and create new revenue opportunities . SAP's own managed-services framework emphasizes SLA monitoring, governance, reporting, incident/change/problem management and continuous improvement, which should form the foundation of this role. Key Accountabilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of the India offshore

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portfolio.

• Establish and govern a standardized

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operating model across accounts.

• Ensure achievement of contractual SLAs, KPIs, OLAs and quality commitments.
• Establish clear ownership across SAP Functional, Technical, Basis, Security, Integration, Development, Testing and BTP teams.
• Ensure effective Incident, Problem, Change, Request and Knowledge Management.
• Drive proactive problem management and elimination of recurring incidents.
• Ensure critical incidents and escalations are managed with appropriate executive visibility.
• Establish delivery governance mechanisms including:
• Daily operational reviews
• Weekly delivery reviews
• Monthly service reviews
• Quarterly business reviews
• Executive governance
• Ensure consistent reporting across all AMS contracts.
• Establish a strong culture of operational discipline, accountability and customer ownership. B. Offshore Delivery Operations
• Own the India Offshore Delivery Center for

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• Develop a scalable offshore operating model supporting 24x7 and follow-the-sun services.
• Optimize offshore/onshore delivery ratios.
• Drive standardization of delivery processes across accounts.
• Establish shared-service and CoE models for commonly required SAP capabilities.
• Ensure effective resource deployment across multiple accounts.
• Manage capacity, demand forecasting and resource availability.
• Establish backup and succession plans for critical skills.
• Ensure operational readiness for new implementations, rollouts, upgrades and transitions into AMS.
• Resolve cross-account delivery dependencies and operational bottlenecks. C. Financial & Commercial Management Own the financial performance of the offshore AMS portfolio, including:
• Revenue
• Gross margin / EBIT
• Revenue realization
• Offshore utilization
• Billable utilization
• Cost-to-serve
• Resource pyramid
• Onshore/offshore mix
• Productivity
• Overtime and contractor costs
• Bench management
• Contract leakage
• Change requests and additional services Specific expectations
• Deliver agreed revenue and margin targets.
• Identify and eliminate sources of EBIT erosion.
• Optimize resource pyramid and skill mix.
• Increase offshore leverage without compromising service quality.
• Reduce dependency on high-cost onsite resources.
• Drive automation and productivity improvements.
• Improve utilization through cross-account resource movement.
• Support contract renewals and commercial negotiations.
• Identify opportunities for transition from T&M/staff augmentation to managed services. Current offshore delivery leadership roles increasingly combine operational responsibility with revenue, margin and utilization management. Customer & Stakeholder Management
• Act as the senior offshore delivery executive for strategic

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customers.

• Establish trusted relationships with CIOs, IT Directors, SAP Program Directors and business stakeholders.
• Lead executive-level service governance.
• Own resolution of major delivery escalations.
• Establish transparent communication during critical incidents.
• Present service performance, risks, financials and improvement plans to customers.
• Understand customer business priorities and translate them into AMS improvement initiatives.
• Drive customer satisfaction and referenceability.
• Identify opportunities for proactive business value creation through AMS. Customer Metrics
• Customer Satisfaction / CSAT
• NPS
• SLA attainment
• Escalation rate
• Critical incident performance
• Service availability
• Problem recurrence
• Service improvement realization
• Contract renewal rate AMS Transformation & Continuous Improvement The Delivery Head should transform AMS from a reactive ticket-resolution model to a proactive business-value-oriented managed service . Key responsibilities include:
• Drive ticket reduction programs.
• Implement automation and self-healing capabilities.
• Establish AI-assisted incident and problem management.
• Drive predictive monitoring and proactive issue prevention.
• Improve First-Time-Right resolution.
• Reduce Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR).
• Improve knowledge reuse and shift-left support.
• Establish SAP application observability.
• Drive automation using

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and relevant automation platforms.

• Promote DevOps/SRE practices where appropriate.
• Establish reusable AMS accelerators and tools.
• Implement standard dashboards and operational analytics.
• Identify opportunities for GenAI-enabled service management. Current SAP offshore delivery leadership roles increasingly emphasize automation, AI, predictive analytics and service transformation rather than traditional ticket management alone.

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Transition & Transformation Own governance for transition of new

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contracts into the offshore organization. Responsibilities include:

• Transition planning and governance.
• Knowledge-transfer strategy.
• Resource onboarding.
• Documentation readiness.
• Service acceptance criteria.
• SLA baseline establishment.
• Tool and monitoring readiness.
• Shadow/reverse-shadow management.
• Transition risk management.
• Hypercare management.
• Transition-to-steady-state governance. People & Talent Management Lead and develop a large

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organization across multiple SAP capabilities. Responsibilities:

• Build high-performance SAP delivery teams.
• Develop Delivery Managers, Service Managers and Tower Leads.
• Establish competency-based workforce planning.
• Build SAP S/4HANA and cloud capability.
• Develop future-ready skills in:
• SAP S/4HANA •

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• Integration
• SAP Analytics
• SAP Fiori
• SAP Security
• SAP Cloud
• AI/Automation
• Drive cross-skilling and upskilling.
• Establish career paths for

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professionals.

• Identify high-potential employees and succession candidates.
• Improve employee engagement and retention.
• Manage performance and productivity.
• Build leadership depth within the offshore organization. SAP Capability & Practice Development Partner with SAP Practice leadership to strengthen offshore capabilities.
• Build functional and technical SAP Centers of Excellence.
• Develop reusable AMS frameworks and accelerators.
• Establish industry-specific support models.
• Develop S/4HANA AMS capability.
• Develop RISE with SAP / Cloud managed-service capabilities.
• Strengthen

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and Integration capabilities.

• Develop SAP Security and GRC capabilities.
• Establish SAP testing and release-management capabilities.
• Develop AI-enabled

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offerings. Business Growth & Pre-Sales Support The Delivery Head will be a key contributor to AMS revenue growth , not only delivery execution. Responsibilities