Senior Solution Sales Executive, Finance And Spend Management - Western Canada

Solution Sales Executive (SSE)

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.

What you'll do:

The Solution Sales Executive (SSE) partners with the end-to-end account owner to drive solution specific sales motions with a dedicated focus on SAP's Procurement and oCFO products. The candidate should have relevant domain expertise to solve customer business challenges commonly faced by CFOs and Chief Procurement Officers. The ideal candidate will have experience formulating and presenting a Point of View to Finance and Procurement stakeholders; use all available resources to solve customer problems that relate to SAP's oCFO and Procurement solutions (Finance, Spend and Supplier Management, Working Capital Management, GRC, and QTC Solutions).

What you will do:

1. Generate demand, manage pipeline, and close opportunities
2. Develop opportunity plans containing compelling solution value propositions
3. Conduct White Space analysis to identify growth opportunities
4. Work with wider account team on sales campaigns
5. Manage customer relationships at the solution area/buying center level
6. Progress opportunities for move to cloud/expand footprint accounts or accounts which are new to the solution area
7. Utilize deep knowledge of how companies operate, business models, strategies, and end-to-end business processes
8. Stay informed about SAP's competition and value drivers
9. Leverage SAP's comprehensive team of experts and industry knowledge to effectively address customer needs
10. Build customer participation in relevant SAP communities, programs, and events
11. Facilitate collaboration with the partner ecosystem

What you bring:

• Proven track record in business application software sales with overachievement of quota
• 3 – 5 years of experience in sales of business software/IT solutions
• Deep understanding of the solution and solution innovations
• Broad understanding of the SAP solution portfolio and the business processes it enables to drive customer value conversations
• Established relationships with account teams, Customer Business Office (CBO) teams, and relevant geo unit leaders
• Alignment with product/solution management teams and marketing organizations a plus
• Demonstrated success with large transactions and challenging sales pursuits
• Proven contractual and negotiation skills
• Experience driving renewals, expansions, and up-sells of subscription or perpetual license-based solutions
• Knowledge of financial, competitive, regulatory environment
• Located under 40 miles from Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Regina or Vancouver where offices are available.

Meet your team:

• This role is for the Finance and Spend Management team in the West reporting to the VP of Sales.
• Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Strategic analytical thinker, high degree of creativity and innovation
• Excellent executive presence
• Results-driven
• Strong commercial/deal support skills, especially subscription-based
• Experience selling to Procurement and/or Finance is desirable.

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 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.

SAP'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, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability. SAP provides the hourly base salary rate range applicable for the posted role. The targeted range for this position is 170200 - 381200 CAD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidates will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. SAP offers limited benefits for employees hired into hourly or like roles subject to applicable plan/policy terms.

Due to the nature of the role, which involves global interactions with SAP entities, as well as with employees and stakeholders in Canada, functional proficiency in English is required for positions based in Quebec.