Senior Value Advisor

at  SAP

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.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Executive presence demonstrated by excellent and energetic public speaking skills.
• Passion for technology. SAP technology knowledge is a bonus.
• Proven CXO engagement skills.
• Ability to produce storylines and high-quality presentations in PowerPoint with a very keen eye for detail. Comfortable with doing financial analysis in excel spreadsheets.
• Product marketing acumen (segment, target, content, lead strategy).
• Positive, Motivated, Self-starter with a can-do attitude
• Participation in relevant industry associations is a strong positive.
• MBA preferred

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The Value Advisor is a strategic role supporting general industry business to grow sales, pipeline, customer adoption and satisfaction. The Value Advisor engages with senior business executives and provides a business process and industry perspective, develops business cases, and thought leadership to support sales cycles. In addition, the Advisor will drive pipeline growth and contribute to building and maintaining SAP’s leadership position and brand. This opening is focused on Consumer Industries and/or Discrete manufacturing.
We are looking for someone with a passion for helping organizations solve issues, create value, maximize growth and improve business performance. A typical engagement requires obtaining buy-in of key executive stakeholders, confirming scope and timeline, conducting discovery workshops, analyzing and synthesizing information, producing quality, executive ready deliverables with the ability to articulate work in a compelling and effective manner.

Responsibilities & Objectives:

• Collaborate with the C-Suite and other senior executives at our customers to drive the case for change.
• Develop and present case for change to the Executive Suite.
• Understand situational interpretations and analyze data to identify and understand challenges.
• Demonstrate expert knowledge critical to the role, such as, developing business cases and related metrics while utilizing both traditional and modern assessment tools, such as interviews, surveys, and evaluations.
• Lead complex engagements with cross-functional teams (internal and external).
• Grow the Value Advisory practice by improving on current practices / adding to it.
• Successfully pitch value engagements to customers.
• Contribute to internal account strategy discussions in a meaningful fashion.