Senior Account Executive – Public Sector

Job title:

Senior Account Executive – Public Sector

Company:

SAP

Job description

We help the world run betterAt 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.ROLE DESCRIPTIONThe Account Executive’s primary responsibilities include prospecting, qualifying, selling and closing new business to existing and net new customers. The Account Executive brings a Point of View to the Customer engagement; uses all resources to solve customer problems with appropriate SAP products.1. Account and Customer Relationship Management, Sales and Software License and Cloud Subscription Revenue.

• Annual Revenue – Achieve / exceed quota targets.
• Sales strategies – Develops effective and specific account plans to ensure revenue target delivery and sustainable growth. Develop relationships in new and existing customers and leverage to drive strategy through organization.
• Trusted advisor – Establishes strong relationships based on knowledge of customer requirements and commitment to value (value of counsel and expertise, value of solutions, value of implementation expertise). Builds a foundation on which to harvest future business opportunities and accurate account information and coaching.
• Customer Acumen – Actively understand each customer’s technology footprint, strategic growth plans, technology strategy and competitive landscape. Review public information (e.g. new executive appointments, earnings statements, press releases) for the company and its competitors to remain updated on key industry trends and issues impacting the prospect.
• Territory and Account Leadership – Lead designated territory, including accounts, account relationships, prospect profiling, and sales cycles. Encourage all accounts to become SAP references.
• Business Planning – Develop and deliver comprehensive business plan to address customer and prospects priorities and pain points. Utilize VE, benchmarking and ROI data to support the customer’s decision process.

2. Demand Generation, Pipeline and Opportunity Management

• Pipeline planning – Follow a disciplined approach to maintaining a rolling pipeline. Keep pipeline current and moving up the pipeline curve.
• Pipeline partnerships – Leverage support organizations including Marketing, Inside sales, Partners and channels to funnel pipeline into the assigned territory.
• Leverage SAP Solutions – Be proficient in and bring all SAP offers to bear on sales pursuits including Industry Solutions, LOB solutions (CRM, SCM, HCM, SRM et. al) and technology solutions (Business Analytics, Mobility, Database and Technology, et. al)
• Advance and close sales opportunities – through the successful execution of the sales strategy and roadmap.
• Support all SAP promotions and events in the territory.

3. Sales Excellence

• Sell value.
• Maintain White Space analysis and execution of initiatives (up sell and cross sell) on customer base.
• Orchestrate resources: deploy appropriate teams to execute winning sales. Create OneSAP.
• Utilize best practice sales models.
• Understand SAP’s competition and effectively position solutions against them.
• Maintain CRM system with accurate customer and pipeline information.

4. Leading a (Virtual) Account Team

• Demonstrates leadership skills in the orchestration of remote teams.
• Ensure account teams and Partners are well versed in each account’s strategy and well positioned for all customer touch points and events.
• Maximize the value of all sales support organizations.

Experience & Language Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in sales of complex business software / IT solutions
• Proven track record in business application software sales.
• Experience in lead role of a team-selling environment.
• Knoledge and experience working with Polish Central Government institutions / Voivodship Cities / Higher Education
• Demonstrated success with large transactions and lengthy sales campaigns in a fast-paced, consultative and competitive market.
• Business level English
• Polish – Fluent

Education

• Bachelor equivalent

Quantitative Key Success Factors

• Software License Revenue (Individual Software License Revenue, Team Software License Revenue)
• Solution License Revenue
• Cloud Subscription Revenue
• Pipeline Coverage / Pipeline multiple
• Pipeline / Opportunity Management
• Customer Satisfaction
• Quota Achievement
• Number of deals

Other:

• Percentage of opportunities identified and created
• Percentage of opportunities co-selling with Field Sales
• Number of opportunities closed with Inside Sales
• Percentage of opportunities closed to win

• Percentage of opportunities where the Business Partner is engaged

Qualitative Key Success Factors

• Self-Development / Learning and Growth (completion of assigned development plan, e.g. GCO Sales University curricula, etc.)
• Activities demonstrating account / relationship management
• Partner and 3rd Party Engagement
• Opportunity engagement of Business Partners
• Demonstration of opportunity up sell / cross sell
• Activities performed and recorded to demonstrate the relationship management of assigned accounts, contacts or territory.

​Bring out your bestSAP 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 management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.We win with inclusionSAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the . Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.Requisition ID: 416726 | Work Area: Sales | Expected Travel: 0 – 50% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.Requisition ID: 416726Posted Date: Jan 3, 2025Work Area: SalesCareer Status: ProfessionalEmployment Type: Regular Full TimeExpected Travel: 0 – 50%Location:Warszawa, PL, 00-801Job alert

Expected salary

Location

Warszawa, mazowieckie

Job date

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 00:27:25 GMT

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