Customer Officer GCO Cloud Experience EMEA (f/m/d) - maternity leave limited contract 2 years

St. Leon-Rot, GermanyPosted Aug 8, 2026

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the position is a maternity leave cover and limited for 2 years

The role

For the Global Cloud Operations (GCO) Cloud Experience EMEA leadership team, we are looking for an experienced and highly trusted Senior Customer Officer.

In this strategic role, you will act as a key partner to the Regional Head of EMEA, helping to strengthen customer relationships, drive leadership priorities, improve organisational effectiveness, and ensure the successful execution of regional initiatives.

You will serve as the central point of coordination for strategic customer topics, executive engagements, escalations, regional governance, business performance reviews, and leadership communications. Working across market units, delivery organisations, account teams, support functions, and global leadership, you will help ensure that customer priorities, business objectives, and operational execution remain aligned.

Success in this role requires strong customer focus, executive presence, operational discipline, and the ability to bring together diverse stakeholders to drive outcomes across a dynamic and multicultural EMEA environment.

What you’ll do

Customer Outcomes and engagement

Act as a trusted partner to the Regional Head of EMEA on strategic customer and business priorities.

Plan and orchestrate executive customer engagements, leadership briefings, customer visits, and business reviews.

Ensure alignment between customer expectations, regional priorities, and delivery execution.

Prepare executive communications, customer updates, leadership presentations, talking points, and briefing materials.

Bring leadership insights into key account planning and help prioritise customer engagement based on strategic relevance, customer needs, risk, and expected outcomes.

Support customer transitions and delivery model alignment in close cooperation with the responsible account, commercial, delivery, and operational teams.

Represent GCO Cloud Experience EMEA in internal and customer-facing executive forums.

Regional governance and strategic business operations

Create visibility for leadership through high-quality reporting, structured communication, and actionable management insights.

Support the execution of strategic initiatives and transformation programmes across EMEA.

Monitor business performance and help identify risks, dependencies, decision requirements, and opportunities.

Ensure management decisions, actions, and commitments are documented, tracked, and executed.

Author and maintain the regional strategy paper, annual priorities, and key leadership narratives.

Coordinate workforce planning, headcount tracking, hiring activities, budget-related topics, and organisational initiatives in collaboration with the relevant functions.

Support the coordination of customer transitions involving PC3, EC3, hybrid, legacy, CAS, and related delivery scenarios.

Your profile

Professional experience in customer success, delivery of cloud services, strategy and operations, business operations management, or a comparable role in a complex international environment.

Proven ability to support senior executives and leadership teams in setting priorities, preparing decisions, and translating strategic direction into executable plans

Strong customer orientation with experience in strategic customer engagements, escalations, executive communication, and senior stakeholder management.

Good understanding of enterprise cloud operating models and customer service delivery; knowledge of SAP, SAP S/4HANA, private cloud, hyperscaler environments, or Global Cloud Operations is a strong advantage.

Demonstrated strength in governance, performance reporting, workforce and budget coordination, decision tracking, change management, and turning complex information into clear recommendations and actions.

Excellent English communication, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills, combined with strategic thinking, and the ability to work effectively across countries, cultures, functions, and seniority levels; additional EMEA languages are an advantage.

What success looks like

Strategic customers experience consistent executive engagement and strong follow-through.

Escalations are managed proactively with clear ownership, transparent communication, and disciplined action tracking.

Regional leadership operates with greater transparency, alignment, and execution discipline.

Customer insights influence strategic decisions and operational improvements.

Key EMEA initiatives are executed effectively and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Market units, delivery teams, account teams, and regional leadership collaborate effectively around customer priorities.

The Regional Head and EMEA leadership team can focus on strategic decisions because the right governance, communication, and execution mechanisms are in place.

Bring out your best

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