Corporate Digital Account Executive

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Corporate Digital Account Executive

What you'll do:

The Account Executive (AE) role empowers customers to achieve their full potential by strategically positioning SAP cloud solutions to address their unique business challenges and lay a strong foundation for future success. The role includes the following key aspects:

• Account & Customer Relationship Management:
  • Serve as the end-to-end account owner, managing sales of software licenses and cloud subscriptions while establishing trusted relationships with customers.
  • Develop and execute strategic account and territory plans to ensure sustainable growth and achieve/exceed revenue targets.
  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of each customer’s technology landscape, strategic goals, and competitive environment.
• Demand Generation, Pipeline, and Opportunity Management:
  • Drive and lead a comprehensive net-new demand program leveraging self-generated outbound activity with extended resources in marketing, business development and partner channels.
  • Maintain pipeline management, ensuring a healthy and advancing sales funnel through opportunity progression.
  • Leverage SAP’s comprehensive solution portfolio, including industry-specific and line-of-business (LoB) solutions, to effectively address customer needs.
• Sales Excellence:
  • Conduct account and territory research and analysis to identify and execute net new opportunities.
  • Orchestrate and deploy appropriate internal and partner teams to ensure successful sales outcomes, embodying the "OneSAP" approach.
  • Stay informed about SAP’s competition and position SAP solutions effectively against them.
  • Maintain accurate customer and pipeline information within CRM systems.
• Leading a (Virtual) Account Team:
  • Lead and orchestrate remote and cross-functional teams to align with the customer’s strategic objectives.
  • Ensure that account teams and partners are well-prepared and strategically positioned for all customer interactions.
  • Maximize the value derived from SAP’s extensive sales support ecosystem.

What you bring:

• 3+ years of experience in sales of complex business software/IT solutions.
• Proven success in business application software sales and leading team-selling environments.
• Demonstrated ability to handle large transactions and lengthy sales campaigns in a fast-paced, competitive market.
• Strong negotiation skills and experience in renewals, expansions, and up-sells of subscription-based solutions.
• Fluent in Business English with proficiency in additional languages considered a plus. 
   

Soft skills