Building a successful SAP practice requires more than ambitious growth plans. In a highly competitive talent market, organizations need access to specialist recruitment expertise that can adapt to changing market conditions while delivering the skills needed to support long-term business growth.
After struggling to secure experienced SAP and SAP SuccessFactors professionals, a leading global SAP implementation partner engaged Focus on SAP to help accelerate hiring and build the specialist teams needed to support its expanding project portfolio.
Project Highlights
- Supported a leading global SAP implementation partner over a 12-month recruitment program
- Delivered more than 60 SAP and SAP SuccessFactors professionals
- Recruited across multiple specialist SAP disciplines
- Helped reduce recruitment timelines through a targeted hiring strategy
- Enabled continued growth despite a highly competitive SAP talent market
The Challenge
The client's growth ambitions were being constrained by an increasingly competitive SAP recruitment market.
Despite months of recruitment activity, it had been unable to secure the specialist SAP and SAP SuccessFactors professionals needed to support new implementation projects. Lengthy hiring processes and a limited supply of experienced consultants made it increasingly difficult to meet business objectives, while changing market conditions added further pressure to recruitment activity.
The organization needed a specialist SAP recruitment partner capable of identifying high-quality talent, responding quickly to market changes and supporting an ambitious hiring program.
Our Approach
Focus on SAP worked closely with hiring managers to understand the client's immediate resource requirements alongside its longer-term growth plans.
Rather than treating every vacancy in the same way, we developed a recruitment strategy that balanced quick hiring wins with ongoing searches for more niche SAP skill sets. This enabled the client to continue building delivery capacity, while maintaining momentum on harder-to-fill positions.
Throughout the engagement, we maintained regular communication with stakeholders, providing market insight, transparent recruitment reporting and access to our global network of specialist SAP and SAP SuccessFactors professionals. This collaborative approach enabled hiring decisions to be made more efficiently while reducing the risk of losing sought-after candidates through lengthy recruitment processes.
The Outcome
Over the course of the partnership, Focus on SAP helped the client significantly expand its SAP practice, providing the specialist talent needed to support continued business growth.
The engagement delivered:
- More than 60 successful SAP and SAP SuccessFactors placements
- Recruitment across a broad range of specialist SAP disciplines
- Shorter recruitment timelines through a focused hiring strategy
- Greater visibility of market conditions and talent availability
- A scalable recruitment partnership aligned with the client's long-term growth plans
By combining specialist SAP recruitment expertise with a consultative hiring strategy, Focus on SAP helped the client overcome skills shortages, strengthen its delivery capability and continue growing its SAP practice despite challenging market conditions.
