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What Youll Do

The Industry Advisor is a critical role supporting our North America Financial Services (Banking and Insurance) 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.

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 SAP's 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

What You Bring

7 years of relevant Financial Services industry experience preferred either as a practitioner or an operational consultant to the industry

3 years of application solution / product experience (preferably SAP)

Business Development and/or Management Consulting experience

Knowledgeable on Financial Services

o Market / strategies / business drivers / challenges per segment

o Business processes across a broad set of buying centers in the business

o 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 issues

Must exhibit an executive presence with Proven CxO engagement skills

Excellent and energetic public speaking 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 with 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)

Meet Your Team

Business development profile with 30% travel

This is an elite team with high visibility and exposure to SAP and Customer leadership

Flexible work environment with culture of trust and teamwork

Learning never stops

SAP is an equal opportunity employer

Candidate(s) will be required to work 3 days a week in office/client site as 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.

We win with inclusion

SAPs culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone regardless of background feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.

SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

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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.

Compensation Range Transparency : SAPbelieves the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAPs commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 132000 - 281400 USD.The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidatewill be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills,experience, scope ofthe role, location, etc. as determinedthrough theselection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits (https://www.sapnorthamericabenefits.com/en/public/welcome) .

Requisition ID: 396729| Work Area:Sales| Expected Travel: 0 - 10%| Career Status: Professional| Employment Type: Regular Full Time| Additional Locations:#LI-Hybrid