SAP Industry Advisor - Chemicals 

United Kingdom, England, London 

827513713

What you'll do:

Area 1 – 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 in support of the five key job areas

Area 2 – 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

Area 3 – 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

Area 4 – 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

Area 5 – 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 Chemicals 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

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Requisition ID: 416672 | Work Area: Sales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.