Senior Product Marketing Customer Advocacy & Stories Lead

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Senior CX Customer Advocacy & Stories Lead

About the team:

The CX Activation & Amplification team transforms product marketing strategy into highimpact content and programs that fuel demand accelerate pipeline and strengthen the Customer Experience brand in the market.

Within this team customer stories and marketing references are the proof points that bring our CX vision to life across all solutions and industries.

About the role:

As Senior CX Customer Advocacy & Stories Lead you own the global strategy for CX customer advocacy and stories. You will define the vision set the standards and orchestrate a portfolio of customer references that power campaigns events analyst engagements and executive storytelling while directly leading execution in the Americas and APAC and providing strategic direction for EMEA/MEE.

What you will do:

• Own the global SAP CX Customer advocacy & story strategy and operating model
  • Define the CXwide vision charter and 23year roadmap for customer advocacy and stories aligned with LoB growth priorities and marketing objectives.
  • Establish a clear program framework and success metrics that guide regional execution and investment decisions.
• Lead the CX customer proof portfolio
  • Shape and manage a strategic portfolio of advocates and stories by solution industry segment and region to support pipeline creation deal acceleration events and analyst relations.
  • Ensure quality and consistency of narratives globally while enabling regional nuance and local proof points.
• Drive Americas and APAC & guide EMEA MEE
  • For Americas and APAC lead prioritization and delivery of highimpact customer references and stories for key campaigns and gotomarket plays.
  • Partner with and mentor the EMEA/MEE lead aligning on priorities standards and coverage and acting as the global decisionmaker when tradeoffs arise.
• Embed advocacy into events campaigns and communities
  • Collaborate with event campaign and community leads to ensure advocates speakers and stories are embedded into tier1/2 events launches and key initiatives.
  • Design simple scalable ways to convert event speakers community participants and other engaged customers into longterm marketing references and advocates.
• Align stakeholders and influence at senior level
  • Serve as the senior point of contact on customer advocacy and stories for CX leadership sales product marketing AR/PR partner marketing and regional marketing.
  • Lead a crossfunctional steering forum to align on advocacy priorities strategic accounts and upcoming opportunities and to surface risks or gaps that impact business goals.
• Demonstrate impact with clear metrics and insights
  • Define track and communicate the programs contribution to the business including portfolio coverage reference usage in strategic motions event to advocacy conversion and influence on marketing performance.
  • Provide concise insightrich updates to CX and marketing leadership with clear recommendations on where to double down or pivot.

What you bring:

• 710 years of B2B enterprise software or SaaS marketing experience with significant time in customer marketing advocacy references or related roles.
• Proven success building or leading a multiregion or global customer advocacy/reference program with measurable business impact (market momentum winrate lift program scale stakeholder satisfaction).
• Deep understanding of the B2B SaaS customer lifecycle and the role of advocacy across awareness consideration decision expansion and renewals.
• Strong storytelling skills: ability to turn complex CX use cases into crisp outcomedriven narratives tailored to executives practitioners analysts and partners across multiple formats.
• Strategic mindset combined with a handson approach: comfortable setting vision and frameworks as well as engaging directly with customers when needed.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills with experience operating in a matrixed global organization and working closely with sales leadership product marketing AR/PR and regional marketing.
• Solid program and project management capabilities with the ability to manage multiple priorities and build scalable repeatable ways of working.

Why this role is exciting:

• Direct line of sight to growth: your work will sit at the intersection of CX product strategy marketing GTM and customer success and will be visible to executives analysts and customers worldwide.
• Opportunity to build: you will architect a global advocacy engine for SAP CX that outlasts individual campaigns and becomes a core pillar of how SAP CX goes to market.
• Inspiring customers: You will collaborate with some of the worlds leading brands and market innovators telling the stories of how they reinvent customer experiences with our SAP CX solutions.

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: 447181 Work Area: Marketing Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid