Regional Field Partner Marketing Lead

at  SAP

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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 15 years of marketing experience
• Working in a multi-national company
• Experience in B2B marketing and high-tech marketing
• Experience working with sales / business leader and teams
• Project management and leadership (medium to large-scaled projects)
• Fluent English and any other language are a bonus

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required

JOB SPECIFIC SPECIALIZED SKILLS & SCOPE:

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work with different personalities
• Self-starter who desires to show ownership and commitment to the job
• Strong team player
• “Can-Do” approach to a wide and rapidly changing workload
• Flexibility and willingness to work on a broad variety of tasks
• Enjoy working in a virtual and versatile environment
• Job entails ~ 10% travel

This is a senior leadership role who has experience in generating and retaining cloud business with an indirect model, via partners. Based on the integrated global marketing strategy, this role is responsible for developing a regional partner marketing strategy and ensures partner integration in LoB business plan, to support and guide execution of partner marketing activities in the MUs, but also working directly with named strategic partners on co-marketing activities in the region. Best practices are shared and adopted across the region over the partner marketing community. Jointly responsible for marketing KPIs there is shared accountability for the success of partner marketing activities between this regional role, MU teams and global partner marketing. The regional role focuses primarily on GSSP (15%), VARs (80%) and others (5%)

This role will primarily interact with:

• Global Partner Marketing (GPO) – to plan, evaluate and optimize partner marketing tactics
• Regional LoB Marketing teams – to ensure integration of partners in marketing activities for the respective audiences
• Regional Partner Ecosystem Success (PES) Organization – To understand the business and plan activities that support the growth priorities
• MU marketing teams to execute partner led campaigns and collect feedback and input for future programs and tactics.