Job Description
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.
We are searching for experience in various Industry Verticals and in multiple locations. .
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.
What You Bring
Key Attributes:
- 5 years of relevant experience preferred either as a practitioner, management consultant, or an operational consultant.
- Must be a creative storyteller.
- Aptitude for analytical and creative thinking.
- Ability to work in an ambiguous environment.
- Proficient speaker comfortable interacting with customers one to one and / or one to many scenarios.
- Possess a strong executive presence.
- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships and to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal (both internally and externally).
- Experience in diverse technology landscape and process/technology, SAP background is a plus.
- Understanding of cloud software operating model
Qualifications:
- Executive presence demonstrated by excellent and energetic public speaking skills.
- Passion for technology. SAP technology knowledge is a bonus.
- Proven CXO engagement skills.
- Preferred experience in Finance, Spend and Supply Chain
- 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
Meet Your Team
- Digital transformation leader profile with ~ 50% travel
- This is an elite team with high visibility and exposure to SAP and Customer leadership
- Flexible work environment
- Culture of trust and teamwork
- Learning never stops
- SAP is an equal opportunity employer
Flexible location for those that reside in the South region
Candidate(s) will be required to work 3 days a week in office/client site as per our Pledge to Flex return to office policy
SAP is not offering relocation benefits for this role at this time.
SAP is not offering visa sponsorship for this role at this time.