SAP RISE SAP - Senior Solution Sales Specialist 

United Kingdom, England, London 

1877499

What you’ll do

Sales Strategy and Execution

• Drive the adoption and execution of an end-to-end customer engagement framework that executes on upstream (sales, functional advisory, value advisory, cost optimization) and downstream (operational, cloud infrastructure and delivery advisory) to customers, to drive sales and deliver growth.
• Support consistent forecast process from market unit/country to region
• Execute the sales strategy to acquire net new logos at scale
• execute a GTM that builds 4x pipeline cover, drives pipeline progression & quality through systematic sales initiatives
• Meet quarterly linearity targets (quarterly targets and month-to-month targets)

Pipeline and Opportunity Management

• Partner closely with the industry teams and the Rise with SAP organisation to develop and execute programs to drive pipeline & close opportunities
• Work with the market unit and regional RISE with SAP team (and wider VAT) to educate target accounts on the solution set and conduct account planning for strategic deals
• Work with VAT teams on sales campaigns.
• Work to uncover and run large sales cycles-based opportunities as directed by S/4HANA Cloud Market Unit Leader.
• Navigate through the internal network having a customer first approach
• Ensure opportunities are developed and closed by personally engaging to provide leadership from initial engagement through to opportunity closure
• Lead-by-example in front of key/strategic customers, delivering compelling customer engagements, proposals and commercial options
• Execute strong sales practices around deal qualification and closure process
• Execute a process that ensures scalable deal execution, focus on both current quarter but equally on CQ+1, CQ+2 to ensure a sustainable business

What you bring

• Experience in sales of complex business software / IT solutions / Managed Services/Cloud
• Experience in lead role of a team selling environment.

• Proven track record in business application software sales.
• Demonstrated success with large transactions and lengthy sales campaigns in a fast-paced, consultative and competitive market.
• Exceptional contractual and negotiation skills.