Industry Advisor Mill & Mining
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We help the world run better
At SAP we keep it simple: you bring your best to us and well bring out the best in you. Were builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce and we need your unique talents to help shape whats next. The work is challenging but it matters. Youll find a place where you can be yourself prioritize your wellbeing and truly belong. Whats in it for you Constant learning skill growth great benefits and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
North America Industry Executive Advisory
The Industry Advisor is a critical role supporting our North America Mill & Mining Industry business to grow sales pipeline and engage with our customers to secure revenue. The Industry Executive 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.
Duties and Responsibilities
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 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 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 (F to D Conversion)
- Develop industry specific account strategies
- Deliver industry specific customer experiences
- 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 (C to B stage) 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 Mill & Mining industry experience preferred either as a practitioner or an operational consultant to the industry. This could include the following industries: Mining Primary Metals Fabricated Metal Products Forest Products Furniture & Textiles Building Materials
- 3 years of application solution / product experience (preferably SAP)
- Business Development and/or Management Consulting experience
- Knowledgeable on the broad Mill & Mining 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 issue
- Advanced English
- Portuguese
Qualifications Education and Preferred Skills
- Must exhibit an executive presence
- 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 selling acumen 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 30% 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
Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database analytics intelligent technologies and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide we are purpose-driven and future-focused with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries people or platforms we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP you can bring out your best.
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Requisition ID: 434275 Work Area: Sales Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid
Required Experience:
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