Seller Partner Manager - North America

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The Partner Management hub is a global organization with a focus on nurturing our thriving ecosystem of over 23,000 SAP partners globally (Channel, Service, and Innovation). We offer a range of enablement and support services to SAP’s Partner Ecosystem. We are developing our team to support our Partners to continually grow and succeed with SAP. This is an exciting time for the Partner Management hub organization as the scope and responsibilities are evolving.

The opportunity of a Partner Manager is a highly responsible Inside Relationship Management role where the candidate develops and maintains a 1:1 professional relationship with a number of designated SAP Partners.

The Partner Manager role will maintain focus on executing our Partner’s business plan with SAP, increasing partner satisfaction and revenue productivity, while contributing to SAP’s growth strategy. The PM is also responsible for building a network of strong relationships with key stakeholders inside the SAP organisation, to ensure that there is full alignment in development and communication with our partners.

What You’ll do:

•   Build an executive level relationship with our Partners, focused on defining and execution of business goals aligned with SAP selling strategy

•   Have an excellent understanding of the IT landscape, opportunity, and whitespace in your assigned Market Unit

•   Understand SAP’s strategy and key initiatives, translating these as relevant to your Partners

•    Develop a strong relationship with the key stakeholders that operate in your Market Unit to support your Partners business goals.

•    Execute regular revenue forecast pipeline; Demand generation activities; Quarterly Business Reviews with your Partners to review achievement and make changes to future targets if necessary

•    Coordinate and/or deliver targeted sessions to grow and develop your Partners’ business

•    Orchestrate supporting teams to help partners drive revenue

What you’ll bring:

•    Experience in a previous IT sales position preferable (2 plus years)

Experience in a previous account or Partner management experience preferred

•    Proven experience in one of the following industries:

•    Account Management in the Software / IT Industry sector

•    Professional services & support roles

•    Pre-Sales

•    Understanding of partnership management in IT space

•    Confidence working across all levels in an organisation and possess strong stature and presence. Must be highly credible both internally and externally

•    Demonstrable strong interpersonal and team-working abilities, coaching skills an advantage

•    Problem analysis and problem resolution abilities

•    Creative thinking, willingness, and ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies

Previous experience driving the full Sales cycle

•    A pro-active and result-oriented team-player with strong communication skills

•    Able to work independently and take ownership of assigned tasks

•    Fluency in English mandatory. Role will be managing partners in North America.

The Partner Management Hub is part of a Global organization of talented people that manages partners remotely, with a digital first engagement approach. Our enabling- sales focus is to drive in collaboration with the different countries and market units, business performance at scale, helping partners to build pipeline, to execute demand generation activities, promote expertise by certifying sales, presales and consultant resources. Our ultimate goal is to guide and help partners and complete successful sales cycle in specific markets and industries and SAP solutions.

We build breakthroughs together

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 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 200 million users and more than 100,000 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, we build breakthroughs, together.

We win with inclusion

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 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 SAP Referral Policy. 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: 392828  | Work Area: Sales  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.