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SAP Industry Executive Advisor- Consumer Packaged Goods 
United States, Texas, Plano 
834545702

24.06.2024

Area 1 – Industry GTM Planning & Strategy:

  • Develop and execute a quality and actionable Industry plan for the North American market
  • Quarterly industry business plan review & Global Industry Business Unit interlock
  • Enable Sales, Marketing, Inside Marketing & Sales, and other VAT team members on what it takes to differentiate by industry – both within SAP and externally with industry influencers and partners
  • Develop compelling industry specific content for North America in support of the 5 areas

Area 2 – Drive Awareness & Generate Demand for the Industry in North America:

  • Development of 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 such as ASUG
  • Get doors open. Build new connections and qualified pipeline opportunities
  • Execute with Marketing on events, social and digital plans
  • 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
  • Deliver industry specific customer experiences
  • 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 a right industry message is delivered in deal engagement and execution 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

Experience

  • 5+ years of relevant Consumer Products industry experience preferred either as a practitioner or an operational consultant to the industry
  • 3+ years of application solution / product experience (preferably SAP)
  • Business Development and/or Management Consulting experience
  • Knowledgeable on Consumer Products Industry
    • Market / strategies / business drivers / challenges – per segment
    • Business processes – across a broad set of buying centers in the business
    • How technology needs to support all above.
  • Industry reputation / brand - network of industry relationships. Participation in relevant industry associations is a strong positive
  • Proficient speaker in customer 1:1 and 1: Many event situations.
  • Experience building and retaining strong customer relationships
  • Experience in diverse technology landscape and process/technology integration issues

Qualifications, Education and Preferred Skills

  • Must exhibit an executive presence in both face to face and virtual engagements
  • Excellent and energetic public speaking skills
  • Proven CXO engagement skills
  • Growth / business ownership mentality and approach = build and grow a business
  • Great storyteller using customer examples to explain 1) why do anything, 2) why now, 3) why SAP
  • Product marketing acumen (segment, target, content, lead strategy, digital, social, etc.)
  • Solution sellingacumen – ability to differentiate in complex sale
  • Building storylines and high-quality presentations in PowerPoint with a very keen eye for detail
  • Can do attitude
  • Passion for how technology can be used to enable industry strategic initiatives.
  • SAP technology knowledge is a bonus (consulting / presales / solution management is a plus)

Role Features

  • Business development profile with ~ approximate 30% - 50% travel
  • This is an elite team with high visibility and exposure to SAP and Customer leadership
  • Flexible work environment
  • Culture of trust and teamwork
  • Learning never stops
  • SAP is an equal opportunity employer

Candidate(s) will be required to work 3 days a week in office/client site as per our Pledge to Flex return to office policy

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