SAP Senior Sales_SAP Hong Kong/Taiwan Pooling 

China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island 

770033857

Main Responsibilities

• Aligns with PBMs on Partner Business Planning for the territory covered; identifies opportunities for further growth in the territory and becomes active, in collaboration with other GPO sales areas (PBMs, Inside Sales, etc.).
• Responsible for creation, monitoring and review of business development activities around the solution- or industry- specialization area. Defines innovative approaches to generate business and executes either directly or via the partner-sales teams. Drives core strategies and actions to ensure KPI achievement.
• Coaches partner sales reps to interact with prospects in large or complex SW deals in his area of solution / industry expertise in order to position the value of the respective SW or industry solution as supported by ROI, business case development, references, and supporting analyst data. Ensures high conversion rate from pipeline to deal closure, Shortening of the sales process and improvement of win rate in order to achieve real volume business. Be an expert on the competition with their assigned industry and/or geography. Understand competitive threats (e.g., how to beat the competition).
• Drives deal closure by inserting him-/herself in big and complex opportunities of partners assigned. Balances his direct / indirect activities in order to maximize the revenue in the territory assigned.

• Enables partners to independently drive business with the following resources:
  • partner demand generation plan to build a business pipeline
  • partner competency plan to ensure partner resources are trained on the latest solution and sales content,
  • partner resource utilization plan so partners have full access to and are utilizing SAP tools and methodologies
  • presales coaching plan for existing and new partners

• Generally will be focused on volume segment and ensure alignment with Indirect Channel Mgt (respective Partner Business Managers, Inside Partner Business Managers) and Inside Sales based on key channel economics. Where available will act in strong interrelationship / be co-located with similarly specialized sales roles (e g specialized AEs in Enterprise segment in regional centers of Expertise)
• Monitoring the effective and appropriate use of SAP assets (i.e., Presales) by partners.
• Reporting on sales progress throughout the year; identification of deviations from plans agreed and actively engaging in measures to deliver goals agreed to.

Qualifications and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor Degree holder
• At least 5 years of Software selling experience; candidates with more experience will be considered as Senior Sales Executive
• Owns a good track record of Software selling; experience with Cloud is a definite advantage
• Independent; able to solve problems from scratch out of ambiguous situation
• Fluent in Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) and English