Solution Advisor Manager jobs at Sap in France

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The Senior Sales executive role will be key to what we do – You will bring a number of years of successful experience to ensure you understand our customers’ needs and realise the benefits of the investment they make.

Within this role you will:

· As a Team player you will demonstrate and maintain a high level of knowledge about SAP Concur’s products and services, territory, marketplace, competitive offerings and other business issues, customers needs and goals.

Education, Experience & Training required:

· Degree in a business or technical related area of study

· Minimum of 5 years’ experience selling Travel, Employee Spend, ERP or financial solutions in a new business role

· Challenger Sales Trained or equal

· Experience of working with cloud sales would be highly beneficial

· A demonstrable understanding of the cultural differences and issues of working in the are essential

Critical Performance Competencies:

· Keep calm in a fast pace environment with peak periods

· Strategic view to approach top Enterprise companies in the region

· A creative mindset towards Demand generation and pipeline building

· Demonstrates different influence styles as appropriate to situation while maintaining positive relationships

· Builds and maintains trusting relationships with associates and customers

· Effectively transfers thoughts and expresses creative ideas using speech, and listening skills to influences others and gain support

· Adjust to new, different, or changing requirements

· Listens with objectivity and checks for understanding

· Persists despite obstacles and opposition or set backs

· Competitive, high achiever

· Holds self-accountable for results

· Conveys a sense of urgency and drives issues to closure

Value Competencies:

· Accountability for delivering forecast

· Displays passion for & responsibility to the customer

· Hires, develops & rewards great people

· Displays leadership through innovation in everything you do

· Displays a passion for what you do and a drive to improve

· Displays a relentless commitment to win

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What You’ll Do

As a Solution Advisor within the SAP Academy for Customer Success, you will be responsible to:

• Successfully complete a 10-month program that strengthens a foundation for a successful customer-facing career at SAP.
• Participate in experiential learning opportunities with colleagues from all over the world and acquire a wide variety of business, industry and SAP solution skills while working with emerging and cutting-edge technologies.
• Receive on-the-job training under the mentorship of a senior Solution Advisor colleague while working with our customers to gain real world experience and acquire the skills necessary to help guide our customers through their Digital Transformation journey.

Solution areas focus:

Knowledge in Supply Chain, Asset Management, Manufacturing, Warehouse Management, or Transportation Management.

What You Bring

• 2-3 years of professional experience with a strong foundation in technical and business processes, exposure to relevant technologies/ solutions, and customer-facing skills.
• Technical and business process knowledge, combined with strong complex problem-solving skills, to support solution delivery and operational efficiency through hands-on experience with relevant technologies and industry-standard tools.
• A cooperative and productive approach to working relationships, internally and externally.
• A strong ability to quickly learn new concepts, adapt to changing environments, and apply knowledge to deliver results.
• An understanding of AI fundamentals, uses, and ethics, to identify business problems solvable with AI.
• A resilient mindset, embracing challenges with optimism and consistently striving for growth and success.
• Strong Business Acumen, including demonstrated knowledge of business processes and/or industries.
• Proficiency in English to engage with our global network.

We are planning a practical and immersive portion of our program, which will likely involve participants spending four (4) weeks, spread across two trips, in San Ramon, California. This experience is designed to provide unparalleled hands-on learning and networking opportunities. *Please note the in-person component is still in the planning phase, and the final decision will be confirmed by the first quarter of 2026. We will ensure that this information is communicated promptly, and that sufficient time is provided for necessary preparations.

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

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Core criteria and role objectives:

1. Leading customer engagements to assess strategic objectives, map out innovation scenarios, identify key improvement opportunities and other sources of economic value, and present board-level justification for change including business cases.
2. Demonstrate expert foundational knowledge in Office of CFO space critical to the role, such as, developing business cases and related metrics and use of tools and templates.
3. Successfully pitch CFO value engagements at C Level, primarily CFO’s.
4. Partnering with field sales teams to identify revenue opportunities, create account strategies, and execute sales plays.
5. Collaborating with customers to establish value management practices which includes regularly benchmarking for best practices and measuring realized value.
6. Lead complex engagements with cross-functional teams (internal and external).
7. Conduct executive level dialog in relation to the deliverables.
8. Establish and maintain the trust of Customer CFO’s.

A typical engagement requires obtaining buy-in from CFO’s and HOD Finance as Key Stakeholders, confirming scope and timeline, conducting discovery workshops, analyzing and synthesizing information, producing quality, executive ready deliverables with the ability to articulate work in a compelling and effective manner.

Key Attributes

• 15+ years of relevant experience preferred either as a practitioner, management consultant, or in digital transformation roles in the area of Finance.
• Proficient speaker comfortable interacting with C-Level in one to one and/or one to many scenarios.
• Possess a strong executive presence.
• Experience building and retaining strong customer relationships.
• Experience in SAP technologies strongly preferred.

Qualifications, Education and Preferred Skills:

• Exemplary research and authoring skills with a strong emphasis on synthesis and representing complex scenarios
• Ability to produce storylines and high-quality presentations in PowerPoint with a very keen eye for detail..
• Executive presence demonstrated by excellent and energetic public speaking skills.
• Passion for technology. SAP technology knowledge is a huge plus.
• Proven CXO engagement skills.
• Positive, Motivated, Self-starter with a can-do attitude
• Participation in relevant CFO associations is a strong positive.

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YOUR FUTURE ROLE

Inetllectual Property Advisor in Global Patent Group

• Engage with internal client groups (product development, product marketing, corporate development, sales, corporate legal, etc.) to advise on IP issues and to coordinate activities relating to patent portfolio development, risk management (such as third party disputes), and IP-related agreements.
• Build and manage a portfolio of patents supporting one or more lines of business.
• Assist with IP due diligence activities, assessment of litigation risks, and evaluation of IP licenses and other agreements, in support of lines of business.
• Coordinate on strategic topics with other IP Counsel team members.
• Engage and manage outside counsel – no patent drafting or prosecution work required.
• Travel component up to 10%, including trips to various development locations.
YOUR PROFILE• Must be admitted to the European Patent Office or German Patent Office (experience with US patents a plus).
• A university degree in a science/technology field is required (computer science, electrical engineering, or related degree a plus).
• understanding of software patent practices and principles.
• Ability to apply knowledge of relevant industry trends and resulting issues to day-to-day business planning.
• Ability to translate knowledge of technology and market trends to formulate strategies and recommendations to build and maintain a patent portfolio that supports SAP’s business objectives.
• Ability to travel internationally and work across cultural and language boundaries.
• Ability to manage projects in a complex and matrixed environment with virtual teams of high-level professionals.
• The candidate should have strong technical, interpersonal, verbal, presentation, and writing skills to successfully interact with inventors, colleagues, and executive management.
• The candidate should be a strategic thinker with organizational savvy, and should be results driven yet team oriented.
• Fluent German and fluent English is mandatoryPreferred experience:

Experience in the areas of patent drafting, prosecution, licensing, and litigation preferred.

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Accountability

• Responsible for growth in the Supply Chain Planning domain
• Sales strategy on strategic pursuits
• Coaches sales teams
• Oversee the creation of best practise assets (POV, demo, discovery process, etc)
• Ensures delivery of assets across a cross-functional team
• Ensures business critical & innovative results
• Ensures that goals and milestones are met and approved budgets are managed appropriately
• Manages escalation appropriately
• Builds strategic partnerships with key decision makers in customer & partner organization

Complexity

• Takes ownership over the growth of the Supply Chain Planning domain in a matrix organisation
• Oversees the most complex, strategically important pursuits
• Owns executive client relationships

Experience

• 10-15 years of relevant professional experience in the Supply Chain Planning domain/industry
• Executive presence in commercial organisation
• Managemenet consulting, value based selling

Communication

• Represents SAP to customers
• Finds common ground for cooperation within matrix organistaion and cross-functional teams
• Formulates clear GTM plans for growth
• Communicates messages relevant for growth plan
• Captures opinions and expectations of stakeholder and takes action

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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