Partner Business Manager SAP Next Gen

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What you will do

The Partner Business Manager (PBM) is a field-based role working with strategic alliance resell & advisory partners in the SAP Signavio line of business. You are part of our strategy to build the ecosystem that powers the Business Process Transformation market and delivers outstanding customer outcomes. This is a revenue enabling role where you are working every day with our partners and alongside our own customer- and market-facing teams. Success is measured by the successful outcomes delivered to customers and the innovation our partners bring to market with SAPs Business Technology Platform.

Position title: Partner Business Manager SAP Next Gen

Location: Santiago Chile

Duration: 6 months up to 2 years

Expected Start Date: July/August 2026

The work of a Partner Business Manager regularly involves coordinating all SAP interactions (with executives sales leadership account executives CSPs solutions teams peers etc.) in order to drive partner investments and growth as well as day to day account interactions. As well as the deal-focused activities youll be thinking on long term development health-of-business and transformation to new solutions technologies and models. To ensure our partners are delivering the best customer adoption and consumption you will also support the additional partner roles at SAP from Partner Enablement Delivery Management and Partner Readiness team to drive practice excellence & enablement so partners reach self-sufficiency and deliver outstanding customer value.

Tasks descriptions:

Strategy GTM Planning and Business Development

• Develops and drive effective joint annual business planning with partner to align partners with the Signavio business plan and go to market initiatives for maximum multiplier effect from our ecosystem
• Works on investment and expansion plans
• Holds partners accountable and measure (and report) results and ROI on documented marketing and demand generation plans regularly (i.e. quarterly updates and reviews).
• Utilizes existing experts within SAP to prepare deliver and follow up on the business planning
• Understands and articulates the relevant SAP portfolio in terms of the customer value proposition and the partner value proposition (including partner economics partner ROI advise the partner on investments into various solutions as is seen fit using available SAP experts);
• Presents SAP opportunities (i.e. new product new solutions area) in financial terms including potential revenue required partner investment break-even and return on investment to gain partner adoption - mainly focusing on extending the partners sweet spot (vs. entering completely new business areas)
• Assists partner in building transformational plans to differentiate themselves and add value to customers - Explains economic trends and industry knowledge to support the partners investment in developing their SAP business and to gain trusted advisor status
• Leads and drives partner to expand their SAP footprint to the innovation solution portfolio where relevant and incorporate the new solutions in pipeline building and demand generation plans.

Partner Demand Generation and Pipeline Creation:

Responsible for partners pipeline development; driving to SAPs expectation of pipeline multipliers and leveraging SAP marketing and business development resources and tools.

• Develops and executes a pipeline development plan to meet partners pipeline multiplier goals net new name goals and revenue commitments including setting goals for establishing customer references
• Drives the partner to source new pipeline moving into active sales motions
• Guides partners demand generation plans to align with SAPs current go-to-market messaging.
• Influences partner to effectively utilize 100% of their marketing development funds.
• Ensure that the partner collaborates to build and execute joint demand generation activities with SAP regional industry and national Sales Business Development and Marketing Teams to grow a mutual pipeline and that partners agree to clear account and align plans as to close more business.

Partner Management:

Responsible for the overall success of your partner and for partner compliance with SAP PartnerEdge program requirements and SAPs Chanel Operating Policies.

• Proactively develops active and long-term partner relationships across all roles in the partner (executives sales marketing technical ) and keeps up to date with all changes to the partners organization
• Effectively trains partners sales force to become experts on delivering the SAP value proposition (overall and by solution)
• Ensures PartnerEdge requirements are met and take corrective action as necessary if required with E&C mgmt.
• Ensures that partners and SAP teams - operate in a professional and ethical manner; take action or escalate if professionalism and ethics standards are not being met
• Proactively provide professional preparation and leadership of partner/SAP meetings

What you bring

A curious and agile mindset with a passion for learning and the resilience to adapt in a fast-paced evolving environment. Strong problem-solving and creative thinking skills with the ability to collaborate across teams and communicate ideas clearly and effectively. Emotional intelligence and cultural awareness that support inclusive teamwork and thoughtful stakeholder engagement. A growing foundation in business acumen and emerging technologies especially artificial intelligence paired with a results-oriented approach and the courage to take initiative.

Education and Experience:

• Must be a recent University graduate of Bachelors degree
• Preferably not exceeding 1-2 years from graduation

Nice to have:

• Experience partner-facing or customer-facing role (ex. Customer Success Partner Management Sales Consulting)
• Experience in business processes with relevant experience in cloud technology
• Business development experience in driving sales pipeline demand gen and enablement with partners

Requirementsand Competencies:

• Effective communication and presentation skills an executive level
• High energy - brings innovative ideas to the team and champions best practices
• Proven capability to work in a team and collaborate with independent accountability
• Local market knowledge and understanding (software industry trends vertical market industries etc.)
• Business level fluency in English
• Strong analytical competencies

Where You Belong

Building on SAPs intelligent enterprise strategy it is the mission of SAP Signavio to assist our customers in navigating through their digital transformation and help them understand and improve their business processes in a data-driven way. Together with the acquisition of Signavio a recognized and strong market leader in the process excellence and intelligence area we are creating a comprehensive end-to-end Business Process Intelligence (BPI) offering for our customers! Our purpose is to help our customers innovate in an ever-changing world!

We are looking for someone who takes initiative is motivated curious to learn and is committed to the role with high personal expectations to work efficiently in a rapidly changing environment.

We are on a hyper growth path: Help us with great ideas to shape a future organization that everyone wants to work for!

This role is part of our Alliances team with specific responsibility for partners in our LAC region. You will support building the partner relationship with the partners for the region & market unit(s) you are aligned to. Your responsibilities start with support building the Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy defining our joint focus for how we grow win and succeed together with our partner ecosystem. With a clear GTM plan in place you will manage the growth initiatives as a link between our partners and our GTM and marketing teams and drive the resulting pipeline growth and sales motions alongside our Signavio Account Executives and Industry teams. The PBM provides support to SAP sales teams and partners in sales cycles via coaching mentoring and shadowing in customer facing sales activities. You must live in the LAC region and speak Spanish and potentially Portuguese.

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Requisition ID: 453557 Work Area: Sales Support Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Graduate Employment Type: Limited Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid