Vice President, Digital Solutions

Requisition ID: 388050
Work Area: Marketing
Expected Travel: 0 - 20%
Career Status: Executive
Employment Type: Regular Full Time
Career Level: T5PM
Hiring Manager: Kahly Berg 
Recruiter Name: Ernie Luther
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We are looking for a Vice President of Digital Solutions - who will lead across the business to deliver a multi-year roadmap to achieve Digital First experiences and operations for SAP.  This individual will be accountable to ensure that the solutions we develop are aligned with the customer’s needs and business outcomes – ensuring we can maximize our customer lifetime value and reduce our customer acquisition cost through digital first means. This role will report to the SVP of Customer and Digital Experiences but will be a key leader that collaborates across our Marketing Technology, Business Performance Management, Sales Operations and IT delivery teams. Successful candidate brings deep experience in translating business and customer requirements into technology needs, a robust understanding of the Adobe Experience Manager and how it needs to fit into the overall Marketing Stack, and deep knowledge of the digital needs of a SaaS based product go-to-market strategy.

About The Role

• Responsible for defining the business requirements across marketing and customer experience for SAP digital properties.
• Deliver ‘one roadmap’ across the Digital Solutions for SAP in partnership marketing and sales leadership and IT leadership – ensure alignment with product engineering roadmaps and IT enterprise architecture roadmaps.
• Lead the multi-year effort to migrate to AEM Cloud for the business and with deep partnership with the IT organization. Define the approach and workstreams, act as single POC and leader across the marketing organization, and orchestrate the delivery of AEM Cloud for SAP.
• Have a constant pulse on the latest trends, a strong understanding of the martech vendor landscape, and provide insight on the latest capabilities required across our core digital architecture.
• Support across the business to scope and define the uses cases for our digital roadmap that will have highest impact.
• Define Digital Solutions across content supply chain management, web management and delivery, digital asset management, and digital event experiences. 
• Provide the right balance of business and technical leadership, helping to bridge the gap between business need and IT capability and capacity.
• Define the governance principles and adherence for the ‘buy vs. build’ approach for our digital landscape.
• Act as a senior subject matter exert on cloud-based infrastructure for our marketing and customer experience technologies, with strong technical leadership for AEM Cloud. 

Requirements:

• Experience deploying and/or transforming from on prem AEM to AEM Cloud services. 
• 10+ years of experience in digital experience, marketing technology, Customer Data Platforms, Omni-channel Personalization, and digital signals and lead management processes.
• Ability to manage complex organizational delivery and executive stakeholder management.
• Ability to speak both with IT and Technical Leadership as well as Sales and Marketing Leadership.
• Work experience within the high-tech industry and specifically SaaS based products.

We build breakthroughs together

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 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 200 million users and more than 100,000 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, we build breakthroughs, together.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 388050  | Work Area: Marketing  | Expected Travel: 0 - 20%  | Career Status: Executive  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.