Job Overview
Role: Practice Engagement Manager / Senior Practice Engagement Manager
Career Stream: Global Markets
Career Sub Stream: Client Services
Reports to: Group Practice Engagement Manager
Billable Role: No
Supervises: Associate Practice Engagement Manager
Financial Size: 25 Million Euro p.a.
Incumbency: Multiple
Team Size & Dispersion: Individual Performer, or up to 2 reportees
Location: Onsite, Europe – Frankfurt, Germany, Hessen
Operating Network (Internal): Sales, SAP Delivery Management, Finance, Legal
Operating Network (External): Clients (CXOs, Business Leadership, IT Leadership and below, Procurement office, Client Audit & compliance), Alliance partners mainly SAP, other contractors
Business Focus
- Drive new SAP service business growth – Transformation as well as Operations
- Provide SAP Product Portfolio and Service Delivery expertise throughout client journey
- Independently create and orchestrate integrated offerings and value proposition for new deals
- Strengthen SAP partnership by collaborating at account and product portfolio levels
- Create high impact in the market with thought leadership based on hands‑on SAP Service Delivery
Education & Experience Requirements
Minimum Experience: 12 years for all graduate categories; 14 years for higher proficiency
Graduate Categories: Engineering Graduate, CA / Tier MBA, Non‑Engineering Graduate, PhD
Career Stream: Global Markets (12 years baseline, 14 years higher proficiency)
Areas of Responsibility
- Sales Planning and Review: Provide data points to the Region Head to help create a realistic sales plan.
- Market Development: Persuade clients to provide industry‑wide references; provide input on events/sponsorships to corporate marketing; participate in events and conferences to support revenue growth outside the account and increase ROI on events.
- Opportunity Identification and Qualification: Navigate the account to identify varied kinds of deals to increase business footprint.
- Proposal Development: Partner with Vertical Segment Sales and SAP Delivery Management; create compelling value proposition to new SAP deals, ensuring quality, seamless solution, and unique positioning of Infosys.
- Proposal Negotiation and Closure: Align with Segment Sales and Delivery Management; set up and facilitate proposal‑coaching sessions between client and pursuit team; drive client consensus and articulate business value to win the deal at the right premium.
- Contracting and MSA: Provide inputs to the Commercial Manager; act as point of escalation to ensure quick contract closure with due diligence.
- Account Planning and Review: Contribute to the account plan, communicate and execute as per plan; conduct periodic review of plan with higher Management to grow the account.
- Account Mining: Prepare for client meetings; work with IBU EMs to close opportunities; work closely with HBU Delivery for account context and techno‑functional review of meeting material.
- Account Operations: Support sign‑off on SOWs/Contracts; follow up to sign SOWs, resolve disputed amounts, and follow up for payments; identify clients for CSAT and ELF to minimize revenue leakage and enhance client satisfaction.
- People Management: Mentor HBU account team; provide development feedback to senior delivery team members; coach direct reports to improve CSAT, ESAT and de‑risk the engagement.
- Organization Initiatives: Leverage account context to present initiatives favorably to the customer, gaining learning and growth opportunities for the organization.
Knowledge, Skills & Expertise
- Knowledge:
- 10–25 years of SAP consulting experience with achievements in service delivery, sales, presales, advisory or competency leading capacity.
- Strong delivery background – hands‑on SAP consulting services with at least 10 years as a Consultant / Developer / SME.
- Expertise in presales – client C‑level advisory and solution presentation experience of at least 2 years.
- Industry orientation – deep experience across multiple industry segments (Retail, CPG, Chemicals, Energy, etc.).
- SAP SE Connect – direct relations with SAP folks from sales leaders, partner management, product management, customer success.
- Solution orchestration – SAP‑led solution with over 10 IT products, seamless integrated value proposition building for new deals.
- Presentations – proven capability of engaging CXO and senior executive with whiteboarding, presentations with and without aids.
- Commercials – contemporary commercial models for various types of SAP services, packaging, cost components, estimations, resource loading.
- Experience with SAP RISE, Grow constructs – at least 3 deals or programs.
- Familiarity with SAP AI offerings; certifications will be a plus.
- Good understanding of LoB Apps – IBP, Ariba, SFSF, CX, Concur, Fieldglass, Qualtrics, Central Finance.
- Europe experience – at least 8 years stay/work experience in any European country; cultural sensitivity and language proficiency (English plus German/French) a big plus.
- Travel – flexibility for short travels across EMEA region.
- Skills:
- Industry know‑how – deep business process knowledge across multiple companies in an industry segment.
- SAP hands‑on delivery – proven record of SAP Service delivery / SAP Program management.
- Proposal building – integrating multiple functional and technical components into compelling solutions with accurate estimates.
- Client orientation – understand client organization and drive value maximization with our solution.
- Maturity and creativity during sales pursuit and service delivery to oversee teams and drive toward set goals.
- Effective and structured verbal and non‑verbal communication skills (consultative).
- Stakeholder management – interpersonal skills to interact with senior executives.
- Languages – very good fluency in English; additional linguistic skills in German, French will be an added advantage.
Performance Measures
- Sales Planning and Review: Revenue, profitability; service line mix as % of total account revenue.
- Opportunity Identification and Qualification: Number of requests for proposals.
- Proposal Development: Average Infosys PAT across the proposals submitted; average HBU PAT across the proposals submitted.
- Proposal Negotiation and Closure: Dollar proposals won; number (and $) of proposals won / total submitted.
- Contracting and MSA: Contract / SOW risk rating below threshold.
- Account Planning and Review: HBU revenue; HBU margin; number of large deals; number of new buying centres.
- Relationship Management: Number of client escalations to next level; number of CXO meetings; CSAT; ELF scores.
- SAP Partnership: SAP Partnership KPIs as per role.
- Learning and SAP Certifications: Latest SAP certifications and continuous learning on new areas.
- Organization Initiatives: Success of the initiatives.
Additional Criteria for Higher Proficiency
Minimum Experience: 14 years for BE or Liberal Arts graduate; 12 years for MBA graduate.
Knowledge: Span multiple industry/domains regarding the service line.
Further Tasks
Assist BDMs with pursuits of prospects across different sectors; Mentor EM, proficiency Level 1.
Work Location
Frankfurt, Germany, Hessen
Company
ITL Germany – part of Infosys Limited (role designation 2817ASPEGM Senior Practice Engagement Manager)