Digital Sales Development Manager - Customer Experience (CX)

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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. 

 

SAP Digital is one of the leading and most innovative teams in the company, aimed at delivering exceptional customer experiences in a scalable, speedy, and personalized fashion. The purpose of the organization is to support the Customer Success board area with a broad range of services and methodologies across the customer journey to guarantee the acquisition of net-new customers and the successful adoption and expansion of our products. Most importantly, helping more customers run better ultimately translates into a safer, cleaner, more connected, better enabled, and more equal world.

 

SAP Digital team prides itself not only on the outcomes, but on exemplifying our company values: Build bridges not silos, embrace differences, keep the promise, stay curious, tell it like it is, and live the leadership credo.

 

Job Profile

 

The Digital Sales Development team guides and influences customers to take informed decisions in the early stages of their digital transformation journey by creating a world-class engagement experience. This team is responsible for building and nurturing pipeline of sales opportunities and incremental revenue aligned with the Sales and Marketing teams, focusing on prospecting into the SAP install base and net new name accounts, while nurturing leads into qualified opportunities within their assigned space. This team drives digital and high-quality engagement with potential customers delivering superior customer experience.

 

As a Digital Sales Development Manager of Customer Experience (CX), you will work with and develop a team focused on sourcing and nurturing demand to grow SAP’s Cloud ERP & CX footprint in North America across all industries, working with SAP & Partners resources, as well as Customers.

 

The Sales Development Manager manages a team of CX Sales Development resources (commonly referred to Sales Development Executive 'SDE') whose mission is to extend SAP's market coverage by generating new pipeline for SAP solutions.

 

The Sales Development Manager management goals are:

1. To produce high quality pipeline with a high conversion rate to bookings for the target business segment.
2. To develop SDE talent into the future Account Executives
3. To operate with excellence, taking data-driven business decisions to optimize Demand Generation tactics, and running an operating model with rock solid business process execution.

 

As a people manager, you are responsible for supporting the success of not only your direct reports, but the success of all employees within the larger team you are a part by helping to identify development opportunities and supporting team members to achieve their goals. You are expected to know about the members of your extended team and share insights with your peer managers. Look for opportunities to coach and recognize employees directly and provide just-in-time feedback so that employees can reflect on your input immediately. Support and manage any low performers of your team to bring them back in to a successful track against their KPIs.

 

The Digital Sales Development Manager (commonly referred to as Digital Sales Development Executive "SDE") will be responsible to coordinate, orchestrate & execute the DG plan of the targeted accounts. As a people manager you are responsible of supporting the success not only of your direct reports, but of all employees within the larger team you are a part by helping identify development opportunities and supporting team members achieve their goals.

 

 

Your responsibilities include:

 

Overall Management

1. Sales Strategy:
   • Communicates SAP's overall Sales & Marketing Strategy to all stakeholders internally and externally
   • Identifies key areas (regional, industry segment, solution segment, etc.) of the Inside Sales route-to-market which enables SAP's growth within assigned segment, territory and/or LoB
   • Prioritizes these areas according to market potential and develops feasible implementation plans in accordance with regional and local business requirements and ensures an ongoing review process in order to be able to timely react on competitive challenges and market dynamics