SAP kicks off employment in second nearshore delivery center opened in Romania

Newsroom 24/01/2012 | 15:09

After inaugurating a nearshore center in Bucharest last year, German company SAP announced that it has started the process for hiring specialists in a new such center in Timisoara, where it will employ 60 specialists by the end of the year, the center already having at this point 22 specialists.

Most of the employments will take place via a recruitment program devised by SAP called SAP Academy.

“Over the next 6 months we estimate we will recruit 35 people in the nearshore center in Timisoara and by yearend we will have a total number of over 80 specialists,” according to Gheorghe Olteanu, manager of the SAP Nearshore Center Romania.

The inauguration of the Timisoara center is part of the company’s strategy to expand consultancy services it supplies from Romania, after last year the firm launches in Bucharest the first nearshore delivery center. Currently, in Bucharest and Timisoara there are over 125 specialists who cater for clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

By 2014, SAP aims to employ 400 specialists.