SAP Architecture Advisor Insurance

SAP Architecture Advisor Insurance (f/m/d) Customer Advisory Switzerland

We help the world run better. At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

The insurance industry faces a perfect storm: shrinking margins, rising inflation, ever-demanding customers, rapidly evolving technologies, and disruptive newcomers eager to claim their slice of the pie with innovative business models. But within every challenge lies an opportunity. We want to hear from you if you see the potential to guide insurance companies through this turbulent landscape and showcase how SAP can be a game-changer

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
We are looking for a leader with a profound knowledge of insurance to support customers in the Swiss insurance industry in their digital transformation by jointly designing their future processes, defining required capabilities, and deriving the appropriate architecture and roadmap. You will develop your assigned customers together with your sales and post-sales counterparts as well as our partner ecosystem. Architecture Advisors are responsible for bridging the gap between the customer’s business strategy and relevant solutions through crafting the to-be business and solution architectures and designing a transformation roadmap at the enterprise level to facilitate the customer’s adoption of Cloud-based architectures.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

• Bring in your experience with software/IT organizations as an IT Architecture or Enterprise Architecture Advisor and/or specific expertise with software solutions through Solution Management, Sales, Presales.
• Follow and understand the market developments in the insurance industry in Switzerland and Europe.
• Lead key customer engagements in the insurance industry from an architectural perspective and become your customers' trusted advisors.
• Engage with C-level and other business stakeholders to understand business requirements, current and future business demand, and industry trends and define SAP's added value.
• Map SAP solution capabilities to the customer requirements.
• Guide customers in defining and implementing a transformation roadmap towards a common goal.
• Challenge the customer with new ideas, inspire, and generate demand.
• Present SAP and partner solutions and processes from an industry end-to-end view and apply high-level business process best practices.
• As a key member of the account team, define and execute the account strategy based on business needs and incremental solution opportunities.
• Build a strong network inside the SAP insurance industry community.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Minimum a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills in German and English, both written and spoken. Any additional business-fluent language skills in French and Swiss German are considered assets.
• In-depth knowledge of the SAP Solution suite, with an insurance background.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture management, methodology (e.g., TOGAF), and respective tools (e.g., LeanIX).
• Proven experience of driving tangible outcomes in Enterprise Architecture for customers.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of SAP business strategy and solutions, partners, markets, and competition.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Over 5 years of relevant experience in presales, consulting, architecture, business development, and experience in various business functions within the insurance industry.
• Experience in:
  • Industry-specific business processes
  • Sales and sales processes
  • Project Management, Agile Frameworks

MEET YOUR TEAM
At the core of our mission, the Architecture Advisor team is dedicated to guiding our customers through their cloud business transformation journey. Our experts work collaboratively to deliver tailored, consistent value to every customer, ensuring they achieve the best results from their cloud investments.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development.

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.

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.

Requisition ID: 413127 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 50% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.