Sales Account Executive - Public Sector

Sales Account Executive - Public Sector

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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.

About the role:

SAP is looking out for a Sales Account Executive who will be responsible for driving key business decisions and focussing on navigating complex sales engagements within a set of the large accounts in SAP.

Your success in the role will be driven by:

Business & Financial Acumen

- Understanding the customer's entire end-to-end business model and be able to use that knowledge to develop unique SAP enterprise-wide solutions
- Tying economic, industry, sub-industry and business drivers to implications for the customer's business. Identifying non-obvious financial levers.
- Monetizing the value that SAP offers the customer
- Leading C-level conversations about financial directional, potential P&L benefit of deploying SAP software to support progress on their strategic business imperatives
- Linking the value of products and services with the deal price to overcome pricing objections

Influencing the Customer

- Preparing a complete plan outlining all the steps the customer will need to complete to reach an informed decision point
- Creating and delivering an insight that leads to differentiation
- Positioning the disruption that's happening in the customer's sub-industry to create a sense of urgency to drive transformation
- Positioning the advantages and challenges of various digital framework implementation engagement models.

Managing the Account as a Business

- Aligning the customer's strategic goals to SAP's competitive differentiators and map to SAP solutions
- Orchestrating, Influencing and leading VAT team functions and geographies to identify innovative and provocative points of view (POV) that help differentiate SAP as the digital platform of choice
- Aligning SAP and customer stakeholders and executives to the 4 Panel cadence model intended to align, prioritize and staff bidirectionally key initiatives

Demand Management & Pipeline Health

- Using SCP Analytics Tools to manage pipeline
- Understanding key indicators of pipeline health (Coverage, Pace, Balance and Quality) and ability to recognize issues that must be addressed
- Creating a solid demand generation plan, leveraging multiple sources (i.e.: sales plays, marketing events, demand generation assets) and sales support teams

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