Cloud Services Delivery Manager

Cloud Services Delivery Manager - Hybrid | Cary, North Carolina

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About The Job

We're looking for a Cloud Service Delivery Manager (CSDM) is part of a team of specialized SAS Cloud professionals who work with customers to ensure that the SAS solutions and services meet and evolve with their business needs. CSDMs possess knowledge of the unique technical environments, industry best practices, current and future SAS solutions and work closely with an extended network of SAS professionals in Product Management, Research and Development, Technical Support, SAS Cloud, and Professional Services in support of their customers. CSDMs own the SAS Cloud Customer Experience and are responsible for ensuring that customers can achieve their desired business outcomes from their SAS investment.

As a CSDM, you will :

• Champion and advocate for the customer experience (voice of the customer).
• Ensures timely delivery of customer ecosystems by effectively leading delivery projects.
• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track project progress.
• Leads and / or coordinates customer facing engagements via project planning, resourcing, staffing, progress reporting, troubleshooting, and critical task management.
• Communicate and tracks regularly on the status of project goals by ensuring project results meet requirements regarding quality, reliability, schedule, and cost.
• Report on progress of project to all stakeholders by presenting reports defining project progress, problems, and solutions.
• Successfully manage relationships with the client and all stakeholders. Establishes and maintains relationships with third parties / vendors.
• Validates and confirms customer requirements and prerequisites for cloud services.
• Accountable for customer Service Level Agreements, including critical situation management which may occur outside of normal business hours.
• Manages a highly complex and varied portfolio of solutions and managed application services that may have a global footprint and require engagement outside of normal business hours.
• Conducts regular managed application service health checkpoints with the customer to ensure that customers are achieving their desired outcomes.
• Proactively provides attention and escalation for urgent issues or concerns during the customer lifecycle with SAS.
• Provides expertise and may be certified in ITSM processes to manage customer service delivery and support.
• Applies critical thinking on service issues to drive issue resolution, ensuring root cause analysis and corrective action are taken with the appropriate teams.
• Accountable for contractual budget management, ensuring profitability.
• Ensures all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

World-Class Benefits

Highlights include...

You are welcome here.

At SAS, it's not about fitting into our culture it's about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.

Additional Information

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more : Know Your Rights.

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