Industry Executive Advisor- High Tech Industry WEST

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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.

What Youll Do

The Industry Advisor is a critical role supporting our Americas High Tech business. The Industry Advisor engages with customers in support of SAP Sales and Partners to provide industry perspective strategic solution advice thought leadership and differentiation. The key goals are to grow pipeline market share win rates and references to build SAPs leadership position in the industry.

Area 1 Scale Industry Competence in The Field:

• Develop and execute a quality and actionable Industry plan for the Americas market
• Quarterly business reviews and interlocks with the Global Industry Business Owner
• Enable the field on what it takes to differentiate SAP in the industry
• Develop compelling Americas specific industry content in support of each of the 5 areas

Area 2 Drive Market Awareness & Generate Demand:

• Develop industry specific sales plays to drive demand at scale

• Get new doors open in accounts.

• Conduct executive first meetings to differentiate SAP by industry relative to the customers objectives. Get SAP included in the evaluation.
• Execute with SAP and Partner Marketing on industry events social and digital plans
• Provide Industry advisory for account planning
• 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

Area 3 Support Deal Execution:

• Based on deep industry expertise become the Trusted Advisor to both Sales and the Customer.
• Develop industry specific account strategies
• 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 a right industry message is delivered in deal engagement and execution deliverables like RFP Responses Business Cases Product Demos industry solution architecture etc.

Area 4 Help Drive Industry Specific Innovation:

• Drive and support customer co-innovation to solve industry specific business problems
• Be the voice of the customer from the Americas back to the Global Industry Business Owners on solution specific requirements roll-in and roll-out.

Area 5 Increase Customer Adoption & Consumption:

• 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

• 10 years of relevant High Tech industry experience (Semiconductor Software EMS OEM Components) preferred as either a practitioner or an operational consultant
  • 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.
• 10 years of application solution / product experience within the High Tech industry. SAP experience / knowledge is critical (consulting / presales / solution management is a plus)
• Business Development and/or Management Consulting experience - across all sizes of accounts
• Track record of delivering business growth and revenue results
• Executive presence with proven CXO engagement skills
• Excellent and energetic public speaking skills. Great storyteller using customer examples to explain 1) why do anything 2) why now 3) why SAP
• Industry reputation / brand - network of industry relationships. Participation in relevant industry associations is a strong positive

• Product marketing acumen (segment target content lead strategy digital social etc.)
• Solution selling acumen ability to differentiate in complex sale

Meet Your Team

• Business development profile with 30% travel
• This is an elite team with high exposure to SAP and Customer Leadership
• Flexible work environment
• Culture of trust and teamwork
• Learning never stops
• SAP is an equal opportunity employer

Candidate(s) will berequired to work 3 days a week in office/client siteas per our Pledge to Flex return to office policy

SAP is not offering relocation benefits for this role at this time.

SAP is not offering visa sponsorship for this role at this time.

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: 448549 Work Area: Sales Expected Travel: 0 - 30% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid