CX Solution Sales Manager BeNeLux

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BeNeLux - CX Solution Sales Manager

ABOUT OUR TEAM/LOB

SAP Customer Experience is uniquely positioned as its focus customers are the thousands of enterprise businesses already using SAP for finance supply chain HR and other services. SAPs existing customers can benefit from connecting their back office with their front office - connecting their finance and marketing with supply chain and commerce. Innovation today is faster and has lower cost when data is connected.

Today SAP CX (Customer Experience) offers customers the leading solutions in e-commerce sales force automation service automation marketing and personalization engines customer retail solutions and management all supported by AI. Our vision is to help organizations improve how they market sell and service their customers.

SAP will continue to expand and grow its offering across Customer Experience both organically and inorganically.

With SAPs Customer Experience solutions businesses can:

• Bring sales service commerce and social engagement to an integrated SaaS CX system. The intelligent customer experience (CX) supports end-to-end processes to help our customers get the most from their SAP software
• Gain a 360 view of customers to understand their needs anytime
• Use analytics and data-driven insights (AI) to improve interactions across all channels at scale
• Transform at the speed of customer expectations with a hybrid composability approach. Our feature-rich core provides enterprise-grade capabilities and a vast ecosystem of partner solutions allows you to deploy customised experiences rapidly
• Run your business anywhere anytime on any device with a mobile-first approach
• Get up and running quickly and cost-effectively with subscription-based cloud CX solutions like composable e-commerce marketing sales cloud service cloud and customer data solutions ISV solutions

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

SAP is looking to recruit an outstanding leader for the position of Solutions Sales Manager (FLSM) Customer Experience BeNeLux reporting to the CRO of Customer Experience in EMEA. This leader can be based either in Belgium or the Netherlands.

The Customer Experience business has grown fast and is a leading growth engine for SAP. SAP seeks someone who will take the BeNeLux business to the next level and achieve high double-digit (if not triple-digit) growth rates. The strategic focus for this organisation is to bring Net New to CX Customers. The CX solution is equally attractive to existing SAP customers and those currently not using SAP providing two growth engines.

The ideal candidate will bring both domain expertise (front office customer engagement) and excellent sales leadership (general management disciplined process value proposition regular cadence). This candidate will ideally have experience with both rapid growth in start-up situations and long-cycle big deals at more mature companies. This individual will be able to work well across various sales groups within the entire SAP organisation and leverage the entire SAP salesforce to drive sales of Customer Experience solutions.

In this role you will:

• Be a member of the SAP CX EMEA and BeNeLux leadership teams to execute the CX go-to-market for BeNeLux
• Recruit develop coach enable and motivate a group of high-achieving A-players
• Demonstrate outstanding sales execution ensuring SAPs sales methodologies and standard processes are in place and defining clear territory engagement guidelines
• Monitor and take necessary measures to ensure demand generation and adequate pipelines of opportunities for sustainable growth across Customer Success
• Utilise a disciplined approach for successful solution selling (Value Centric Sales Approach) establish and maintain accurate timely and documented sales revenue forecasting procedures and provide required SAP executive management updates
• Build a network of relationships across industry communities and business groups and with key partners and customers while staying on top of business issues to provide meaningful strategic advice to help customers through integrated solutions;
• Understand the markets importance of product innovation and work with regional and local teams to deliver an innovation strategy;
• Support the development of solid SAP CX references;
• Promote successful adoption of SAP CX software and enable targeted customer renewal rates.

YOUR PROFILE

Ideal experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of overall experience in sales leadership roles
• Sold Customer Experience solutions and CRM e-commerce marketing solutions customer data and ISV partner solutions
• Deep experience in SaaS
• Achieved rapid top-line growth in cloud products with a focus on net bookings
• Crafted and secured million-euro software deals
• Built and upgraded sales organisations and capabilities as revenues ramped up
• Led a disciplined sales process with proper pipelines and accurate forecasts
• Managed business development sales operations presales services and support

Key Competencies:

• Sales leadership: Must be an accomplished salesperson with a sound reputation gravitas and a successful track record in strategic and consultative sales across a complex region
• Customising strategies to build capabilities and achieve revenue growth with equal focus on selling directly to end-customers and selling internally
• Upgrading sales teams to become increasingly productive and successful
• Putting in place disciplined and best-practice sales management processes
• Visionary and trusted advisor in Customer Experience
• Engaging clients CXOs articulating the value proposition of CX solutions and thereby winning their trust and subsequent business
• Taking a portfolio approach to achieve targets reduce dependency and develop talent
• Tailoring influence and stakeholder management to leverage partner resources in different markets across the CX landscape to amplify capabilities and to navigate around issues with organisational agility and imaginative solutions
• Fluent in English and Dutch. Professional proficiency in French is considered an added advantage

This role is based either in Belgium or the Netherlands (see local vacancy) because of team & customer proximity requirements and we can only consider candidates which will not require a relocation.

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: 440752 Work Area: Sales Expected Travel: 0 - 20% Career Status: Management Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid