Solution Advisor Senior Specialist

Job description / Role

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

SAP Digital is one of the leading and most innovative teams in the company, aimed at delivering exceptional customer experiences in a scalable, speedy, and personalized fashion. The purpose of the organization is to support the Customer Success board area with a broad range of services and methodologies across the customer journey to guarantee the acquisition of net-new customers and the successful adoption and expansion of our products. Most importantly, helping more customers run better ultimately translates into a safer, cleaner, more connected, better enabled, and more equal world.

SAP Digital team prides itself not only on the outcomes, but on exemplifying our company values: Build bridges not silos, embrace differences, keep the promise, stay curious, tell it like it is, and live the leadership credo.

JOB PROFILE

Digital Solution Advisor is a customer-facing role mapping product capabilities to requirements of prospects to support the selling of solutions and services with a specialization in the nuances of digital sales techniques. Serve as domain experts and spokesperson(s) for designated solution or product segment. Primarily responsible for integrating SAP knowledge with modern digital sales methodologies, ensuring effective communication of product value and facilitating tailored solutions proposals for clients

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS

These are some of the responsibilities you will have:

Area 1: Deal Support

The Digital Solution Advisor Senior Specialists are instrumental in sculpting and delivering unparalleled sales presentations on SAP and partner software solutions, tailored especially for discerning audiences, including top-tier company executives. Their refined approach will be evident in the subtle yet effective personalization of materials, ensuring each presentation resonates with its audience. Through their collaboration with VAT teams, they will deeply attune to our customers' perspectives, adeptly intertwining their challenges with our state-of-the-art solutions to form a captivating narrative. A cornerstone of their responsibility will be the curation and upkeep of a sophisticated asset library, optimizing for volume and efficiency in our no-touch/low-touch transaction methods. As a seasoned specialist, they won't just prepare presentations; they will spearhead in-depth discovery sessions with potential clients, laying the foundation for robust, lasting relationships. Their extensive knowledge of SAP solutions and industry nuances will solidify their credibility, enriched by compelling customer success tales. Moreover, they will exhibit an expert ability in devising customer roadmaps, ushering them from their existing IT landscapes to innovative Cloud realms. Their contribution will extend to enhancing RFx completions, ensuring our proposals exude expertise. Embracing the digital age, they will employ tools like the SAP Virtual Studio and OBS technology, ensuring their remote presentations are as impactful as in-person. Their involvement extends post-sale, overseeing smooth transitions, and they will be the maestro behind the powerful narratives for high-profile events and presentations.

Area 2: Demand Generation

A Digital Solution Advisor Senior Specialists will play a pivotal role in demand generation. Their expertise is not just in knowledge but in application - leading webinars, and aligning with Marketing and DG priorities, ensuring we're always a step ahead in our outreach. Their deep understanding allows them to advise in APM - TPM, positioning themself as an oracle in SAP's solutions/LoB portfolio. Beyond this, their collaboration with DG and marketing teams becomes strategic. They are not just crafting content; they are moulding our demand generation narrative, ensuring every campaign, every content piece underscores our unique selling propositions and addresses the core challenges of our target market.

Area 3: Digital Content for customer facing Situations

Their mastery over SAP offerings allows you to not only curate but also innovate digital content for customer-facing situations. By aligning content with advanced solution insights and market trends, they will ensure that our digital materials are both compelling and strategically positioned to address complex customer scenarios.

Area 4: Sales Enablement:

With their advanced knowledge, the role of a Digital Solution Advisor Senior Specialist in sales enablement is pivotal. They will lead training sessions, imparting nuanced understanding and actionable insights. Their expertise ensures the sales team can translate product functionalities into tangible benefits for clients.

- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required, MBA or equivalent degree required from accredited university is preferred.
- Candidate will bring a distinguished combination of digital proficiency, technical acumen, and seasoned customer engagement expertise. A solid foundation of 4+ years in presales (preferably digital), technology consulting, and/or a comparable customer-facing role is essential.
- Demonstrated proficiency of S4Hana Digital Supply Chain track. A good knowledge of S4 Public Cloud is a huge asset.
- Demonstrated history of leveraging digital tools and methodologies to drive sales and client engagement is a plus.
- The candidate should have a track record of successfully navigating complex digital solution presentations, adeptly handling technical challenges, and building collaborative bridges between sales, technical, and digital teams.
- Experience in driving digital transformation in presales, advocating for the adoption of innovative digital tools, and steering teams through intricate digital sales cycles is imperative.
- Conversational fluency in English and Arabic. French is a plus.

About the Company

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends SAP's leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.