Industry Executive Advisor - US Federal Government Finance and Procurement Focus

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What You’ll Do

The position is pivotal in understanding the industry landscape, policy implications, budgeting, procurement, and human resources within the US Federal Government, with experience in Federal Finances and/or Procurement. Duties will include engaging with customers, driving sales pipeline growth, and enhancing SAP's industry leadership through strategic initiatives. This role is for current or former senior-level executives who have driven change, persisted through challenges, and made operational differences in missions in the US Federal Defense / Civilian agencies.

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  Industry GTM Planning & Strategy: The advisor is tasked with developing actionable industry plans, conducting quarterly reviews, and enabling teams to differentiate SAP’s Federal Industry in the market.
• Drive Awareness & Generate Demand: The role involves building SAP's brand through thought leadership, creating industry-specific content, and nurturing customer communities.
• Mature Industry Opportunities: The advisor will focus on converting pipeline opportunities into customer engagements and delivering tailored customer experiences.
• Support Deal Execution: The advisor will differentiate SAP during sales cycles, support post-sale advisory, and build customer references to enhance success realization.
• Support Customer Success Realization: The advisor will support post-sale advisory, executive steering committee meetings, and build and nurture customer references.

Area 1 – Industry GTM Planning & Strategy:

• Focus on current administration goals as levers, and drive an AI and Cloud mindset across the US Federal Defense / Civilian Industry
• Develop and execute a quality and actionable Industry plan for the North American market in the US Federal Defense / Civilian Industry
• Quarterly industry business plan review & Global Industry Business Unit coordination
• Enable Sales, Marketing, Inside Marketing & Sales, and other team members on what it takes to differentiate by industry, both within SAP and externally with industry influencers and partners
• Develop compelling industry-specific content for North America in support of the 5 areas

Area 2 – Drive Awareness & Generate Demand:

• Development of SAP's brand in the industry through thought leadership, content creation, appearances in industry events, articles and social & traditional media interviews, etc.
• Create and nurture industry customers and communities such as America’s SAP User Group (ASUG)
• Get doors open. Build new connections and qualified pipeline opportunities in the US Federal Defense / Civilian Industry
• Execute with Marketing on events, social and digital plans, utilizing your network and customer relationships
• Provide Industry advisory for account planning

Area 3 – Mature Industry Opportunities:

• Conduct introductory meetings with customer executives to articulate SAP's value proposition for the Defense / Civilian industry relative to the customer's objectives objectives
• Accelerate pipeline opportunity conversion to qualified customer engagements
• Develop industry-specific account strategies to include public cloud (SaaS) business solutions and AI-embedded solutions.
• Deliver industry-specific customer experiences and assist in special projects to include AI hackathons, change management workshops, and more.

Area 4 – Support Deal Execution:

• Differentiate SAP by industry throughout the sales cycle to increase win-rates and grow deal sizes
• Advise and assist the sales teams to ensure the right industry message is delivered in deal engagement and execution deliverables like RFP Responses, Business Cases, Product Demos, industry solution architecture, etc. Lead customer executive conversations

Area 5 – Support Customer Success Realization:

• Support post-sale advisory and Executive Steering Committee meetings for top accounts in plan
• Support US Government Industry Customer Advisory Councils and Networking
• Build and nurture customer references

What You Bring

• 15+ years of relevant US Federal Government industry experience preferred either as a senior leader or an operational consultant implementing solutions into the US Federal Government industry, with experience leading Federal Financials and/or Procurement, AI program experience a plus
• 5+ years of application solution / product experience (preferably SAP) within the Federal Government Defense industry
• Business Development and/or Management Consulting experience
• Comprehensive understanding of the current US Federal Government Industry

o Knowledge of Federal and Defense policy, regulation, standards

o Current administration policies and executive orders and how they impact funding and agency / department missions.

o Market / strategies / business drivers / challenges

o How technology needs to support all above positions in the Federal Government Defense / Civilian Industry

o Full technology lifecycle: from strategic planning and compliance to operational implementation

• Professional Attributes:

o Industry reputation / brand - network of industry relationships. Participation in relevant industry associations is a strong positive

o Engaging and thought-provoking speaker in customer 1:1 and 1: Many event situations

o Experience building and retaining strong customer relationships with the US Federal Defense Industry

o Experience in diverse technology landscape and process/technology integration issues

o Must exhibit an executive presence with Proven CxO engagement skills for consulting, selling, and delivering into the US Federal Defense / Civilian Industry

o Growth / business ownership mentality and approach that will build and grow a business

o Great storyteller using customer examples to explain 1) why do anything, 2) why now, 3) why SAP

o Social presence and skills

o Solution selling acumen – ability to differentiate in complex sale including Public and Private SaaS cloud solutions

o Building storylines and high-quality presentations in PowerPoint with a very keen eye for detail

o Can do attitude with passion for how technology can be used to enable industry strategic initiatives.

• SAP technology knowledge is a bonus (consulting / presales / solution management is a plus)
• Working across different countries to assist the global and regional team

Why SAP?

• Make a tangible impact on government missions through smarter, faster, more resilient enterprise systems.
• Help craft go-to-market strategies that change how government agencies buy and adopt technology.
• Work alongside a high-performing team that values consultative excellence, innovation, and integrity.
• Opportunities to contribute to shaping national security strategy through innovation
• A collaborative, mission-first culture focused on growth and customer success

Typical Role Expectations

• Business development profile with ~ 30% travel
• Key player Subject Matter Expert support to the sales team to assist in the achievement of cloud revenue goals, pipeline growth, and solution adoption.
• This is an elite team with high visibility and exposure to SAP and Customer leadership
• Flexible work environment with a culture of trust and teamwork
• Learning never stops
• SAP is an equal opportunity employe

Candidate(s) will be required to work 3 days a week in office/client site as per our Pledge to Flex return to office policy

SAP is not offering relocation benefits for this role at this time.

SAP is not offering visa sponsorship for this role at this time.

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Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 194,100 - 411,600 USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate 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. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: 431575 | Work Area:Sales | Expected Travel: 0 - 30% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid