Solution Sales Expert for Business Technology Platform

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Role Overview
 
The Solution Sales Executive (SSE) is a strategic, consultative sales leader responsible for driving SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) cloud revenue growth across assigned accounts. This role combines deep solution knowledge, strong business acumen, and executive-level engagement to accelerate customer transformation, adoption, and innovation — with a strong focus on AI and modern cloud value realization.
 
The SSE acts as a trusted advisor to customers and partners, shaping end-to-end transformation roadmaps, building pipeline, leading complex deal cycles, and delivering measurable business outcomes aligned with SAP’s One SAP strategy.
 
Key Responsibilities
 
Account Ownership & Strategy: Own the BTP solution strategy for assigned accounts, developing and executing account plans aligned with customer priorities and overall account team strategy.
Pipeline & Opportunity Management: Prospect, qualify, and drive new opportunities within existing and new customers, ensuring strong pipeline generation and progression.
Quota & Revenue Delivery: Achieve/exceed targets for cloud net bookings, consumption, and renewals, managing the full opportunity lifecycle.
Value-Based Selling & Executive Engagement: Lead strategic discovery, articulate business value, ROI, and differentiation, engaging C-level stakeholders to drive demand beyond RFP-driven processes.
End-to-End Transformation Roadmap: Support customer value journey through solution expertise, process mapping, and transformation planning, positioning BTP as a key enabler of business outcomes.
Innovation & AI Acceleration: Drive innovation initiatives and adoption of new capabilities (including AI-related use cases), supporting early customer engagement and scalable proof points.
Commercial Negotiation: Navigate complex contractual and pricing discussions, balancing customer expectations and SAP’s cloud growth objectives.
Adoption, Consumption & Customer Success: Partner with Customer Success teams to ensure successful adoption, manage escalations, secure customer references, and maximize long-term value realization.
Collaboration & Orchestration: Work closely with Sales, Solution Advisory, Marketing, Product, and Partners in a matrix environment to deliver coordinated GTM execution and customer impact.
 
Qualifications & Experience
 
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Information Technology, or related field.
Management consulting type profile with 10-15 Years Industry or Practitioner experience; Executive relationship building skills with proven C-suite influence.  
Extensive experience in enterprise B2B solution sales, preferably in cloud/SaaS and complex multi-stakeholder environments.
Proven track record in managing large, strategic deals and long sales cycles with consultative selling approach.
Strong skills in account planning, pipeline management, negotiation, and executive storytelling.
Experience working with or selling technology platforms, data/integration, cloud solutions, or transformation programs is a plus.
Ability to influence across teams and stakeholders in a matrixed organization, with high autonomy and ownership mindset.
Fluent English and local language proficiency.

Bring out your best
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.  

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Requisition ID: 443527  | Work Area: Sales  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid