Technical Service Manager- Palo Alto Palo Alto, CA, US, 94304 - SAP

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Meet The Team

The Global Cloud Operation (GCO) team ensures customers get maximum value from their cloud journey through strong end‑to‑end operations. Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) operates SAP’s Cloud ERP Private offering (RISE with SAP), delivering technical managed services globally. Technical Service Managers (TSMs) oversee all technical aspects of the customer lifecycle, providing proactive, fixed‑scope, outcome‑based services across the full SAP stack. ECS helps customers maintain stable IT operations and supports their transition to the intelligent enterprise with S/4HANA. The organization focuses on reducing complexity, ensuring stability, mitigating risk, lowering total cost of ownership, and enabling customers to innovate efficiently.

What You’ll Do

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 ECS, 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 ECS. TSM owns the customer landscape and advise on critical and complex landscape changes during life cycle management. TSM will work as a team with ECS 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 ECS North America regional team .

Following are the key tasks that this role will perform:

• 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 ECS & understand interdependencies between systems (both within ECS 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