Application Consultant - SAP Academy for Services & Consulting - GREECE (Hybrid)

We help the world run betterAt SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize 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.

This pipeline helps us create a talent pool for multiple S&C Academy cohorts planned throughout the year.

The SAP Academy for Services & Consulting is a global development program designed for talent who are early in their career.

Who You’ll become

As an Application Consultant, you will help customers bridge the gap between complex business requirements and SAP system capabilities, helping organizations implement, optimize, and maintain SAP solutions. You serve as trusted advisors who translate business needs into effective SAP configurations while ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and processes.

You’ll develop skills in IT strategy, SAP technologies, cloud solutions, and AI, learning hands-on through real projects with guidance from experienced consultants.

This role is a strong entry point into enterprise consulting, where you’ll help customers successfully implement and adopt solutions, use AI to improve outcomes, and grow your career in a collaborative, supportive team environment.

What you’ll do

As part of the SAP Academy for Services & Consulting, Application Consultant Associates will:

• Successfully complete a structured 12-month learn-and-apply academy program

• Participate in classroom learning, simulations, and real-customer engagement scenarios

• Requirements & Solution Design: Gather business requirements and configure SAP solutions aligned to business processes

• Implementation & Testing: Lead system setup, deployment, and testing to ensure quality and functionality

• Support & Continuous Improvement: Provide ongoing support, troubleshooting, upgrades, and enhancements

• Stakeholder & Project Management: Collaborate with stakeholders, support project delivery, and drive adoption through training and guidance

Expectations and Tasks:

• Support customer relationships through consistent delivery quality, responsiveness, and professionalism

• Ensure disciplined execution, documentation, and follow-up across implementation and adoption activities

• Provide clear and concise communications aligned to customer priorities and business outcomes.

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to maintain clarity of roles, responsibilities, and ownership

• Identify potential risks related to delivery or adoption and support mitigation planning

• Ensure alignment between customer objectives, SAP recommendations, and realized outcomes

• Uphold SAP standards for quality, governance, and engagement excellence

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required; focus on Engineering, Business Administration or Finance strongly preferred.

• Engineering - Delivers a strong technical foundation by integrating engineering, business, and systems thinking to solve complex problems and drive efficient solutions.

• Business Administration or Finance - Supports understanding of business processes and financial operations, essential for SAP FI-CO and related modules.

• 1–3 years of experience in technology, consulting, or related fields, with exposure to enterprise application environments.

• Technical Expertise: Experience in SAP S/4HANA/SAP ECC specific module configuration or SAP Analytics applications

• Business Process Knowledge: Understanding of enterprise processes like order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and record-to-report.

• Communication Skills: Excellent presentation and documentation abilities to explain business requirements clearly to diverse audiences

• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical thinking to diagnose complex business challenges and translate them into effective SAP solutions

• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze complex business processes and translate them into SAP solutions.

• SAP Functional Expertise: Experience in one or more of the following areas is preferred:

• Supply Chain,
• Financials
• Analytics

• Order to Cash, or emerging SAP technologies including BTP, Fiori/UI5, and cloud integration.

• Industry experience (Oil, Retail, Pharmaceutical, Financial Services, Manufacturing) is a plus.

• Specialized SAP Training and Certifications is a plus.

Meet your team

As an Application Consultant, you will play a core role within SAP Customer Services & Delivery, partnering with account teams and service delivery organizations to bridge complex business requirements with SAP system capabilities and to design, implement, and optimize solutions that help customers realize measurable value from their SAP investments.

The SAP Academy for Services & Consulting is a global development program designed for talent who are early in their career.

About SAP Next Gen Academy for Services & Consulting

The Academy partners with SAP Customer Services & Delivery to support customers in their digital transformation, driving adoption and effective use of SAP software through planning, implementation, integration, and continuous improvement.

The 12-month SAP Next Gen Academy for Services & Consulting offers classroom learning and role-focused rotations. It builds a strong foundation in consulting, project management, technical, and solution support to prepare you for success in Customer Services and delivery.

Join us for a unique opportunity to build a global network, collaborate with customers to solve real business challenges, and gain hands-on experience with world-class cloud solutions — all while learning in a dynamic environment and earning competitive pay and benefits.

SAP Next Gen is our global experience for students, recent graduates, and early career professionals. Being a part of the Next Gen community provides a supportive community, tailored development, and the ability to be involved in high-impact projects.

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SAP’s employees across different regions are enabled to do their best job with the right mix of office and remote work according to country-specific guidelines and regulations. In general, our hybrid work setup consists of three days a week in the office or on-site with customers or partners.

We are planning a practical and immersive portion of our program, which will likely involve participants spending two (2) weeks, spread across one trip, in San Ramon, California. This experience is designed to provide unparalleled hands-on learning and networking opportunities.

During intensive phases of the program, it is critical that all participants are fully engaged and present to ensure maximum learning and success. As such, vacation will not be approved during some critical times of the program.

Bring out your bestSAP 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. At SAP, you can bring out your best. We win with inclusionSAP’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 realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.Requisition ID: 447745 | Work Area: Customer Service and Support | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Graduate | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid​