What you'll do:
Planning, Strategy, & Practice Development:
- Develop and execute a quality and actionable business plan
- Quarterly business plan review
- Enable Sales, the VAT team, and the Partner Ecosystem on how to differentiate SAP for the industry
- Develop compelling industry specific content
Drive Awareness & Incremental Demand:
- Develop SAP's brand in the industry through thought leadership, content creation, appearances in industry events, articles, and social & traditional media interviews, etc.
- Create and nurture industry customers and communities
- Get doors open. Create / qualify new pipeline opportunities
- Provide Industry advisory for account planning
Mature Industry Opportunities in Pipeline:
- Accelerate pipeline opportunity conversion to qualified customer engagements
- Develop industry specific account strategies
- Conduct executive first meetings to differentiate SAP based on industry relative to the customer’s objectives
Support Deal Execution:
- Differentiate SAP by industry throughout the sales cycle to increase win rates and grow deal sizes
- Help shape the engagement by advising the sales teams to ensure the right industry message is delivered in deliverables like RFP responses, business cases, product demos, industry solution architecture, etc.
- Lead customer executive conversations
Support Customer Success Realization:
- Support post sale advisory and Executive Steering Committee meetings for top accounts in plan
- Support Industry Customer Advisory Councils and networking
- Build and nurture customer references
What you bring:
- 9-12+ years professional experience
- Expertise in Banking industry
- Customer facing experience and fluency in English, with knowledge of other languages as an asset
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and project management skills
- Ability to work in dynamic and high-pressure environments
- Experience with managing escalations and building strategic partnerships
:
- Business development profile with ~ 30% travel
- Represent the company on industry subject matters internally and externally
- Work with co-workers from diverse backgrounds and collaborate with other sales roles
- Experience in working with Cloud solutions
- First experience with SAP industry solutions for your industry
EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:
Requisition ID: 417651 | Work Area: Sales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.