Vice President, Regional Delivery Executive Greater Bengaluru, India Area

Job Description

What you’ll bring

You are a senior delivery leader with a track record in complex programme management — known for executive presence, commercial acumen, and building trusted customer partnerships.

Programme delivery and P&L management expertise across large, complex, cross-regional engagements

Advanced C-level stakeholder management and executive communication, with the gravitas to advise, influence, and push back when needed

Solid commercial and legal acumen across contract management, risk mitigation, and distressed engagement recovery

Proven de-escalation, recovery, and portfolio risk management experience across diverse customer environments

Deep knowledge of SAP Activate, Clean Core, and RISE, translating customer strategy into actionable delivery plans

A degree in commerce, engineering, or information technology, or equivalent experience

Fluency in English is required for this role

In addition to the required skills and experience for this role, all candidates at SAP must be comfortable using AI tools. This means they should use agentic AI in their daily work. Candidates need to craft effective inputs, automate routine tasks, check the quality of AI-generated outputs, and encourage AI practices within their teams.

What you'll build

You will lead delivery excellence — governing a portfolio of complex customer programmes and setting the standard for how SAP delivers.

Own end-to-end delivery for multiple high-complexity customer programmes across scope, quality, cost, and timeline

Drive prevention, correction, and de-escalation — managing senior stakeholders through the full escalation lifecycle

Build trusted executive partnerships grounded in value management and aligned to long-term customer business objectives

Partner with sales, enterprise architects, and bid teams to scope, win, and deliver new engagements across the region

Coach, mentor, and develop delivery teams across APAC, with a focus on India

Drive adoption of Clean Core and SAP AI to deliver measurable customer value

Where you belong

You will join the Regional Customer Engagement & Services, APAC team — a senior delivery community working at the intersection of strategy, customer success, and transformation. We lead SAP's most complex customer engagements across the region, with high internal visibility and direct C-level access. This role involves up to 50% travel.

Job Description:

The Regional Delivery Executive (RDE) is a senior professional with deep (15+ years) program delivery experience. They need to have advanced, proven skills in executive communications, stakeholder management and a solid knowledge of the legal and commercial aspects of working with customers, particularly in distressed engagements. The purpose of this role is to ensure top-notch delivery. This means consistently meeting our customer commitments by grasping their needs. We package our solutions to create measurable business value within agreed timelines and budgets.

The Regional Delivery Executive must have the right qualifications, experience, and business knowledge. They will manage several large and high-risk projects and programs. These projects will involve various business units and service partners. They will also span across organizations and national borders. This position has a high level of responsibility and exposure within SAP, the industry, and our market leading customers. They are a senior professional with an entrepreneurial mindset and business acumen as needed for this complex role.

They improve knowledge management in the company. They share lessons learned from collaboration, portfolio, and program work. They also develop best practices to ensure delivery excellence. There are 3 focus areas of the Regional Delivery Executive:

1. Prevention: A champion for Delivery Excellence and Adoption through Continuous Improvement programs:

Actively contributes as an expert in the Communities

Drives knowledge sharing across our delivery organisation with a focus on Lessons Learned

Actively supports knowledge management activities

Actively supports customers in achieving value of SAP solutions and enables rapid innovation adoption, in partnership with our Enterprise Architects

Coach, mentor and develop CE&A delivery teams across APAC, with Focus on India

1. Correction:

Develop corrective plans on engagements identified as Early Warning

Provide Governance and Thought Leadership to turn around a delivery engagement at risk of progression to escalation

1. De-Escalation: Project / Engagement Escalations and Recovery

Intervein, support and guide running de-escalations as needed across the region

Manage senior stakeholders through the full escalation lifecycle

Limit litigation and commercial liability through recovery activities

Key Responsibilities & Tasks

Opportunity Management

Define appropriate delivery model for customer project/program/portfolio as a composition of pre-defined services, on-site and/or remote delivery – including Success Plans

Work with Solution Centre and Bid Management teams to scope and estimate the engagement and its component projects/programs, with a goal to ensure maximum customer business value

Drive and supports the adoption of Clean Core and SAP AI

Delivery

Lead and own engagement-planning and program-planning activities

Oversee the delivery of multiple projects related to successful engagement or program execution.

Own the engagement and program plan and be in charge of delivery of its major elements including program’s business objectives, scope and solution within quality criteria, on time and budget.

Drive quality in delivery, including clarity and transparency of the project or engagement health along with clear action plans where additional mitigation or management is needed.

Sales and Business Development

Close work with EAs, SAE, SSA, MPs and product sales colleagues on large bids and proposals for new business.

Oversee and lead the development of proposals, tenders, and or responses to requests for proposals associated with the program in order to win new deals for SAP with minimal risks.

Coaching & Mentoring

Serve as a mentor and advisor to project managers. Help them with problems related to corporate and external politics. Support them in building client relations, ensuring project quality, and managing project risk during Delivery Engagements.

Oversee effective engagement oversight and reviews to influence customer success.

Knowledge Management

Maintain program documentation and updates; analyze lessons learned and actively share through the Communities, Solution Centre, and Start Up Service for utilization on future delivery engagements, may at times lead a community

Organize knowledge capturing activities at programs and ensure retention on high quality intellectual capital for SAP Field Services practices.

Participate in the development of project / program management best practices, examples, templates and SAP’s Program Management Methodology

Professional Training & Certification

Prince2 Practitioner, PMP or PgMP certification and /or other industry and project management certifications

C-Level Communications

Transformation Program Management

Project Management

PM Fundamentals or similar

SAP Activate Certification

SAP Project and Program Reviews

PM Key Deliverables

SAP tools Siagnavio, LeanIX, CALM, Tricentis

SAP Project Management Tools

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Additional Information

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