Senior Technical Service Manager
SAP · Newtown Square, PA · 3 wk ago
HybridFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we need to use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We need to parse the job posting.
Let's extract content:
Intro paragraph: "We help the world run better 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."
That's about the company and benefits. Could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" heading is for description of role. The posting includes "Technical Service Managers (TSM) is the role within SAP Global Cloud Operations (GCO) organization overseeing all technical and technical managed service aspects of the Customer Engagement from the point of sale throughout the entire lifecycle of customer RISE contract. They deliver fixed-scope, proactive and outcome-based services across the entire SAP software stack to SAP’s RISE customers. This team is dedicated to customer centricity, client intimacy and support of client lifecycle management. We create a stable foundation for our customers’ IT operations and support customers on their digital transformation journey to the intelligent enterprise based on S4/HANA. With continuous access to our expertise and the broader SAP expert network, our customers can take advantage of the latest technologies to support continuous business innovation. SAP ECS helps customers accelerate their innovation adoption, delivering the flexibility to adapt to business changes, rapidly implement technologies and standardize and optimize operations of SAP centric solutions. The mission of this organization is to maximize the customer success by helping to manage complexity, ensure stable operations, mitigate risk and lowering total cost of operation, support customers on their journey to the intelligent enterprise powered by S4/HANA and releasing investment as well as customer resource capacity for innovation."
That's description of role and mission. Could be "About the role" or "Responsibilities"? Actually responsibilities are listed later: "THE ROLE As Technical Service Manager (TSM), we are looking for an accomplished Senior SAP Technical Consultant in delivering high-quality results consistently. As a key member of GCO, you will be contributing to SAP's Global strategy of helping customers with adoption of SAP S/4HANA on their path to the Intelligent Enterprise. Technical Service Manager (TSM) acts as a trusted technical & Delivery advisor in the safeguarding and optimization of customer investments into SAP GCO. TSM owns the customer landscape and advise on critical and complex landscape changes during life cycle management. TSM will work as a team with GCO internal service delivery and other roles within SAP to serve and delight our customers, by providing quality services throughout their entire lifecycle. This is a customer-facing role where you will be part of the GCO North America regional team. Following are the key tasks that this role will perform:"
Then list of tasks (primary contact, run regular cadence, act as first escalation point, own technical discussions, ownership & detailed understanding, support account team and TechOps, analyze customer technical requirements, present intricacies, support building cloud roadmaps, guide customers on technical aspects, assess security and network requirements, conduct technical & operational reviews, support migration roadmap, comprehensive knowledge on S/4HANA architecture, understanding of various SAP cloud solutions and integration scenarios, etc.)
Then "Education And Qualification / Skills And Competencies" section with bullet list.
Then "Work Experience" with bullet list.
Then later: "Compensation Range Transparency: ... The targeted annual combined range for this position is 135000-277800USD."
Also benefits: earlier "What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed." Also later: "Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits." So benefits are mentioned but not detailed. We have mention of great benefits but not specifics. Should we include Benefits section? The rule: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The posting mentions "great benefits" but not specific benefits. Is that considered specific? It's vague. Probably not enough to create Benefits section. However there is a link to SAP North America Benefits, but not details. I'd say we should not create Benefits section because no specific benefits listed.
Pay: we have compensation range: 135000-277800USD. That's specific. So we should include Pay section.
Schedule: not mentioned. No schedule info. So omit.
Now sections: About the role (maybe we can combine description). Responsibilities: list of tasks. Requirements: maybe Education And Qualification / Skills And Competencies. Qualifications: maybe Work Experience. Skills: could be separate but we have overlapping. The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could combine Education/Qualifications/Skills into one "Requirements" section. Or we could have "Qualifications" and "Skills". But we need to avoid thin sections. Let's decide: Use "About the role" for description of role and mission. Use "Responsibilities" for key tasks. Use "Requirements" for education, qualifications, skills, work experience combined. Use "Pay" for compensation range.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Already not.
We must not include Job ID etc. We'll drop metadata.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the posting within those sections.
Let's extract details for each section.
About the role: Should include the description of TSM role within GCO, mission, what they do, etc. We'll combine paragraphs before "THE ROLE". Also include the sentence about "Technical Service Managers (TSM) is the role within SAP Global Cloud Operations (GCO) organization overseeing all technical and technical managed service aspects of the Customer Engagement from the point of sale throughout the entire lifecycle of customer RISE contract." etc. Also include mission statement.
Responsibilities: list of tasks after "Following are the key tasks that this role will perform:" We need to capture each bullet as . The tasks are:
- Primary contact for the customer regarding technology and cloud service delivery discussions.
- Run regular cadence with stakeholders at customer and manage expectations with regards to service delivery.
- Act as first escalation point.
- Own the technical discussions with the customer and act as the orchestrator of experts to obtain expertise from the SAP delivery organization as required.
- Ownership & detailed understanding of the customer landscape managed within GCO & understand interdependencies between systems (both within GCO and beyond).
- Support the Account team and the TechOps teams for execution of the service delivery plan and calendar.
- Analyze customer technical requirements and organize / co-ordinate experts from GCO Delivery team and drive those topics to resolution to the satisfaction of the customer.
- Present the intricacies of the private offering, technical details, and engagement model to internal and external stakeholders.
- Support the customer or SAP services teams to build customer-specific cloud roadmaps that cover topics around Infrastructure Architecture, Technical Managed services, security, and integration.
- Guide customers on all technical aspects like Business Continuity, Security & Compliance, Networks, etc.
- Assess customer security and network requirements to make sure the SAP security architecture framework can meet customer requirements.
- Conduct Technical & operational reviews (monthly) to measure the progress against defined Cloud architecture & roadmap; establish and drive resolution plans to resolve issues and problems to completion.
- Support the migration roadmap together with partners, System Integrators, and or SAP Professional Services.
- Comprehensive knowledge on S/4HANA architecture, conversion, migration path, methodology and tools.
- Understanding of various SAP cloud solutions and integration scenarios of SAP systems with BTP, Ariba, Successfactors etc.
Note: Some of these look like qualifications but they are listed as tasks. We'll keep them as responsibilities.
Requirements: combine Education And Qualification / Skills And Competencies and Work Experience.
Education And Qualification / Skills And Competencies bullet list:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Management.
- High proficiency in the SAP product portfolio, offerings, and industry solutions.
- Strong technical project management skills & customer-facing experience
- Strong ability to translate between technical and non-technical audience with confidence
- Strong engagement management, relationship building and de-escalation skills
- Excellent presentation, communication and moderator skills
- Good understanding of SAP solutions (releases, platform interdependencies, etc.)
- Good understanding of operational aspects (Application or Technical) of SAP solutions in a cloud environment.
- Good understanding of capabilities of at least one Hyperscale Clouds (AWS; MS Azure or GCP).
- Willingness to undertake customer-related travel on short notice.
Work Experience bullet list:
- 10+ years of experience with SAP Basis administrative duties REQUIRED.
- 10+ years of customer-facing SAP Technical Consulting experience.
- 10+ years of solution design, enterprise architecture, and or SAP implementation.
- 8+ years’ experience in technical project management for SAP Operations or Implementation
- SAP NetWeaver, OS/DB migration, SAP HANA, TOGAF certifications are plus.
- Experience and certifications with IaaS Providers (AWS, MS Azure, or GCP) are an advantage.
- SAP HANA and S/4 HANA skills would be very helpful but not mandatory.
- Cloud security including Cyber Security, Encryption, and key management knowledge is preferred.
We need to preserve all details. We'll put them in
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Pay: compensation range: "The targeted annual combined range for this position is 135000-277800USD." Also mention that actual amount within range dependent on factors. We'll include that.
We should not include boilerplate like EEO, AI usage, etc. Remove those.
Now produce HTML fragment:
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Responsibilities
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Make sure no extra whitespace? It's fine. Now craft the About the role paragraph: combine the descriptive paragraphs before "THE ROLE". Let's extract: "We help the world run better 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." Then next paragraph: "Technical Service Managers (TSM) is the role within SAP Global Cloud Operations (GCO) organization overseeing all technical and technical managed service aspects of the Customer Engagement from the point of sale throughout the entire lifecycle of customer RISE contract. They deliver fixed-scope, proactive and outcome-based services across the entire SAP software stack to SAP’s RISE customers. This team is dedicated to customer centricity, client intimacy and support of client lifecycle management. We create a stable foundation for our customers’ IT operations and support customers on their digital transformation journey to the intelligent enterprise based on S4/HANA. With continuous access to our expertise and the broader SAP expert network, our customers can take advantage of the latest technologies to support continuous business innovation. SAP ECS helps customers accelerate their