Business Network for Supply Chain Solution Advisor

**We help the world run better**

**Business Network for Supply Chain Solution Advisor**

Do you demand the best from your professional career? Are you inspired by excellence? At SAP, you will have the power to make a real impact. As the global market leader for business software, SAP helps companies and organizations in more than 25 industries to run better.

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because it’s the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people’s lives.

**PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES**

**EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS**

Product Experience:

- Expert understanding of end-to-end core business processes of collaboration with direct material suppliers and contract manufacturers. This includes workflows with advanced planning systems in the planning horizon, collaboration on the purchase order lifecycle in the execution horizon, and exchange of quality notifications and inspection documents.
- Ability to facilitate customer discussions and elaborate on the areas of proposed improvements.
- Good understanding of broader Business Network solution areas including Commerce Automation, Logistics and Asset Collaboration. Knowledge of the sales and operations planning process. Ability to articulate how these different solution areas fit together in the context of business execution.
- Knowledge of different planning solutions, including SAP ERP, Integrated Business Planning, and non-SAP planning solutions.
- Knowledge of technical integration options between buyers and sellers.
- Good understanding of direct material invoicing process
- Ability to demonstrate our solutions in a business value oriented context.

Deal Support
- Compose and deliver superior sales presentations covering SAP and partner software solutions to prospective customers.
- Collaborate with sales teams on deal strategy and support the presales tasks of agreed upon strategy.
- Provide support for initial customer discoveries to determine if their requirements fit your solution.
- Supports business value creation in all accounts by leveraging presales value cycle process (Engage, Plan, Discover, Prepare, Dry-Run, Present, Wrap-up)
- Complete sections of SAP responses to RFIs and RFPs.
- Prepare and deliver value-based software demonstrations/presentations in support of sales cycles. Preparation includes personalization of materials to ensure delivery of a simple, appealing and compelling customer presentation.
- Ability to effectively present to customers “remotely” using virtual technologies (SAP Virtual Studio, Teams) and support the creation of digital assets.
- Communicate the business requirements to project/implementation team after completion of sale to ensure a smooth transition from presales to implementation stage.

Demand Generation
- Collaborate with sales teams to participate in various one-to-many lead generating activities.
- Participate in account strategy sessions with the intent of developing solution “whitespace” recommendations, target solution lists, and proposed demand generation plans.
- Supports SAP Partner development and maturation to help drive partner sales.

Sales Readiness
- Stays current on all new solution updates in their primary and secondary solutions.
- Understand competitive solutions.
- Actively participates in their Solution Community of Practice
- Mentor other Solution Advisors to enable them to support Level 1-2 deal support in your solution area.

**EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES**
- University degree
- Business expertise in Supply chain planning and/or execution.
- Good understanding in broader Supply Chain processes is an additional advantage.
- Highly self-motivated
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Languages: Proficiency in business English
- Ability to create and deliver PowerPoint presentations conveying technical information and hold attention of large audience.
- Ability to clearly explain complex information to SAP customers.
- Ability to act as a Solution Captain (lead SE on the Virtual Account Team with the responsibility of coordinating all other SE’s on the Virtual Account Team)
- Travel: no restrictions to global travel. Majority of travel will be in the region.

**WORK EXPERIENCE**

Five (5) years of selling experience of enterprise class software.

**We build breakthroughs together**

**We win with inclusion**

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