Industry Advisor Expert - Consumer Products Industries (422817)

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What youll do:

The Industry Advisor (IA) plays a critical role supporting our Industry business to grow sales pipeline and engage with our customers to secure revenue. The Industry Advisor provides industry perspective strategic solution advice and thought leadership to drive pipeline growth and quality through demand generation strategies support sales cycles and customer co-innovation programs and contribute to building SAPs leadership position in the industry.

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 SAPs 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 customers 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 Consumer Products industry
• Customer facing experience and fluency in English with knowledge of other languages as an asset
• Bachelors 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

Meet your team:

• 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

Skills youll use:

Professional Skills

Business Acumen

Effective Communication

Customer Orientation

Strategic Thinking / Thought Leadership

Results Orientation

Tech Industry & SAP General Skills

Process Improvement

Technology Innovation

Artificial Intelligence

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Go-to-Market Strategy

RISE and GROW with SAP

SAP Cloud Suite Portfolio

SAP Corporate Strategy

Role Specific Skills

Account Strategy

Cloud Strategy

Competitive Positioning

Industry Knowledge

Executive Conversations

Storytelling

Overcoming Objectives

Customer Value Proposition

Partner Relationship Management

Relationship Building

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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age race religion national origin ethnicity age gender (including pregnancy childbirth et al) sexual orientation gender identity or expression protected veteran status or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 422817 Work Area: Sales Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.