Solutions Advisor - SAP at SAP

Account Team Engagement:

• Engage with customers early in the sales cycle by matching customer needs and vision to SAP solutions and qualifying the opportunity against a probability of success.
• Manage the business process discovery to provide a foundation for the solution recommendations and support the business capability mapping, technical discoveries, and the case for change.
• Support new sales and adoption by providing solution-specific expertise and competitive differentiation.
• Provide expertise to the account team and to the development of the account strategy.
• Contribute to creation of overall theme and competitive differentiation (value wedges) and execute dry runs.
• Engage customers through impactful storytelling.
• Provide answers to customer / internal SAP team inquiries concerning solution topics focusing on driving customer success and business outcomes.
• Embrace consistent messaging and employ digital assets in all customer engagements, including recorded demos, presentations, microsites, and other reusable content.

Customer Lifecycle Engagement:

• Effectively transition the deal to on-boarding teams / partner / Field Services.
• Drive adoption by continuing to sell the vision and impact of SAP's solutions post-selection.
• Provide expertise through the customers' successful deployments and realization of value, as required.
• Build knowledge across the customer lifecycle.
• Expand the SAP footprint by showing how other SAP solutions can be leveraged to address other areas of their business.

Experience & Educational Requirements

• Professional experience with large, multi-national software/IT organizations and with a demonstrated expertise of at least one solution segment / Line of Business (LoB).
• SAP product experience and/or relevant solutions / Line of Business experience.
• Working knowledge of Cloud in the Business-to-Business (B2B) environment.
• Working knowledge of Cloud, Hosted Services, and SAAS (software as a service)/ PAAS (platform as a service)/ IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) models, cloud-based commerce/ business networks.
• Proven track record of success in the selected solution/ Line of Business area.
• Ability to engage through storytelling.
• Fluency in English. Any other language is an asset.
• Fluency in the language of local markets desirable.