Solution Advisor - SAP Business Network

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Solution Advisor Expert - SAP Business Network

What you'll do:

As the Solution Advisor Expert (SA), you will be the go-to person for any solution or product questions within the sales team. You will leverage your deep expertise in 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.

• Provide deep solution-specific expertise 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 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
• 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 solutions and ensure eagerness for renewal
• Leverage digital assets throughout the customer engagement, including demos, presentations, and other content
• Support answering RFP’s.
• Hands-on configuration of SAP solutions to support the scripted requirements provided by customers.
• Interpret customer requirements and configure the SAP solutions to meet these requirements.
• Support One to Many Demand Generation activities at Trade Shows.
• Develop videos of demonstrations that can be reused by partners and other virtual account teams.

What you bring:

• Expert Knowledge of SAP Business Network in the following areas: Planning Collaboration, Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC), Freight  Collaboration, Global Track and Trace, Material Traceability and Asset Collaboration.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Supply Chain Suite (Design to Operate)
• 10+ years experience in one of more of the following industries:  Life Sciences, High Tech, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Food & Beverage and Discrete Manufacturing.
• Professional experience with large software/IT organization or industry specific organizations, preferably in a solution-specific segment
• 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 solutions/Lines of Business/Industry expert across SAP with a track record of success
• 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
• Dynamic Presentation Skills and ability to capture and retain the audience’s attention

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.

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 man