At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead SAP's enterprise assessment strategy and drive innovative talent identification.
- Company: Join SAP, a global leader in business application software.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, continuous learning, and great health benefits.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team committed to personal growth and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on leadership development and talent decisions.
- Qualifications: Expertise in assessment methodologies and strong stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 56700 - 69300 £ per year.
We help the world run better. At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritise your wellbeing, and truly belong. What’s in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
Purpose
The Assessment Expert leads the strategic direction, governance, and continuous evolution of SAP's enterprise assessment portfolio. This role ensures that assessment practices, methodologies, and insights enable high-quality talent identification, succession planning, leadership development, and high potential decisions across SAP.
Working across Leadership Development, Succession, Talent Review & Identification, P&C BPs, business leaders, and external partners, the Assessment Expert defines enterprise assessment standards, stewards strategic vendor partnerships, and ensures assessment insights are integrated into SAP's Talent Engine (SAP's talent strategy).
What you’ll do include but are not limited to:
- Define and continuously evolve SAP's enterprise leadership assessment strategy, governance, methodologies, and operating model.
- Own strategic partnerships with external assessment providers, including vendor management, commercial oversight, budgeting, forecasting, and roadmap planning.
- Design and continuously improve assessment approaches supporting leadership selection, succession planning, leadership development, and High Potential identification.
- Partner closely with Talent Review & Identification to define talent segmentation, nomination criteria, calibration approaches, and assessment methodologies supporting High Potential programs.
- Translate assessment data into actionable insights that inform talent reviews, succession discussions, leadership development investments, and executive decision-making.
- Ensure assessment practices operate with the highest standards of quality, ethics, governance, and data privacy.
- Drive continuous innovation by leveraging AI, analytics, participant feedback, and emerging assessment practices to improve decision quality and business impact.
What you’ll bring:
- Assessment Strategy Design: Defines and evolves SAP's enterprise leadership assessment strategy, governance, and operating model.
- Leadership Assessment Tools & Methodologies: Deep expertise in psychometrics, simulations, 360s, potential models, and assessment design.
- Integration with Succession & Development Plans: Connects assessment insights with succession, talent identification, and leadership development decisions.
- Stakeholder Management: Trusted advisor to senior leaders, PC BPs, Talent Review teams, and external partners.
- Vendor Management & Partner Coordination: Leads strategic vendor relationships, commercial discussions, and portfolio planning.
- Data Visualization & Reporting: Translates complex assessment data into meaningful insights for executive decision-making.
Success in Role Looks Like:
- Leadership assessment is recognised as a trusted enterprise capability supporting talent, succession, and leadership decisions.
- Assessment insights consistently improve the quality and objectivity of High Potential identification and succession planning.
- Vendor partnerships deliver innovative, scalable, and high-quality assessment solutions aligned with business priorities.
- Assessment practices continuously evolve through AI, analytics, and external best practices while maintaining strong governance and ethical standards.
- Senior stakeholders rely on assessment insights to make confident, evidence-based talent decisions.
At SAP, you can bring out your best. SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management.
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. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves.
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. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realise their full potential.
SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
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