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Retail Industry Solution Advisor

SAP
7 months ago
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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.

 

What you'll do:

As the Solution Advisor (SA), you will be the go-to person for any Retail Industry solution or product questions within the sales team. You will leverage your deep expertise in SAP Retail specific solutions to support the entire sales cycle, from identifying opportunities to post-sale customer support. Additionally, you will assist customers in expanding their current SAP footprint to maximize value for their organization.

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide deep solution-specific expertise across SAP Retail Industry offerings to support new sales and adoption for key customers
  • Provide both standard and customized/personalized solution demonstrations that bring SAP solutions to life and show customers the value of SAP.
  • Support the Account Team by delivering solution presentations and events to identify and qualify new opportunities and drive adoption and consumption of SAP Retail solutions
  • Evaluate account qualification criteria to determine further investment in pursuing opportunities
  • Establish yourself as a thought leader within the account team and fine-tune account strategy for all SAP Retail solution offerings
  • Collaborate with the team in creating overall themes and competitive differentiation
  • Conduct vigorous dry runs on strategic deals and customer engagements
  • Transition engagement to implementation partner/ Services teams effectively
  • Engage with customers to continue selling the vision of SAP Retail and associated solutions and ensure eagerness for renewal
  • Leverage digital assets throughout the customer engagement, including demos, presentations, and other content

 

What you bring:

  • Professional experience with large software/IT organizations in a Solution Advisory (Presales) related role, preferably in a Retail solution-specific segment. Previous experience working for a Retailer advantageous.
  • SAP Retail related product experience and/or 3-5 years of relevant solutions/Lines of Business experience, preferably with Cloud ERP related SAP products, or Customer Experience / Supply Chain, Omni-Channel Operations, Sustainability, AI.
  • Working knowledge of Cloud, Hosted Services, and Software as a Service/Platform as a Service models in the Business-to-Business Environment
  • Viewed as a Retail Industry expert across SAP with a track record of success within the Retail industry, engaging with variety and types of customers in Retail.
  • Focus on creating compelling storylines and themes for customer interactions
  • Ability to quickly understand customer business goals and ensure they are at the center of recommended solutions
  • Passion and energy in all customer interactions

 

Meet your team:

  • Customer Advocate: Collaborate to complement solution expertise and support customers
  • Global Digital Content Factory: Leverage digital assets created by the team throughout customer engagement
  • Implementation Partner/Customer Services & Delivery: Efficiently transition customer engagement for successful deployment and realization of solution value
  • SAP Account Teams: Share best practices and collaborate on providing solutions and services support across the entire customer journey.

 

Skills you’ll use:

Professional Skills

Business Acumen

Customer Orientation

Establishing Trust

Influencing Skills

Effective Communication

 

 

 

Tech Industry & SAP General Skills

Artificial Intelligence

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Process Improvement

Technology Innovation

SAP Cloud Suite Portfolio

RISE and GROW with SAP

SAP Corporate Strategy

 

Role Specific Skills

Competitive Positioning

Customer Value Proposition

Storytelling

Demonstration Skills

Overcoming Objections

Executive Conversations

Technology Solution Adoption

Client Needs Assessment

Cloud Strategy

Demand Generation

 

 

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

SAP’s 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:
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in theSAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

 

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.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 416861  | Work Area: Presales  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

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