Spend Management Solution Sales Executive

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Key Areas of Responsibility and Tasks

The Spend Management Solution Sales Executive is responsible for driving sales engagements across the SAP Spend Management portfolio, working in a hybrid model that combines direct sales and partner-led opportunities. The role focuses on positioning and selling SAP solutions that support end-to-end procurement and workforce management processes.

The SAP Spend Management portfolio includes:

- SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing (Negotiation, Contracts and Supplier Management)

- SAP Ariba Category Management

- SAP Ariba Buying (Catalogs and Purchase Requisition)

- SAP S/4HANA Central Procurement

- SAP Fieldglass (External Workforce and Services Management)

- SAP Signature Management by DocuSign (Electronic Signature)

The Sales Executive is specialized in the SAP Spend Management portfolio in Brazil and works in close collaboration with Key Account Managers to actively promote and sell SAP solutions to Procurement leaders and CFO organizations. The role requires strong business acumen, customer engagement skills, and the ability to articulate value-driven solutions that address complex customer challenges.

Main Responsibilities

· Land, adopt, expand, and deepen sales opportunities in procurement for direct, indirect, services spend and supply chain.

· Explore the full spectrum of relationships and business possibilities across the client’s entire org chart.

· Actively identifies opportunities through customer visits and partnering with key decision makers on the customer side for further growth in the territory.

· Expand relationships and orchestrate complex deals across more diverse business stake-holders.

· Drives deal closure by inserting him-/herself in relevant opportunities with or without partners assigned. Balances his direct / indirect activities in order to maximize the revenue in the territory assigned.

· Holistically embrace, access, and utilize the channel to identify and open new, unchartered opportunities.

· Work as a team for the most efficient use and deployment of resources. Provide timely and insightful input back to other corporate functions.

· Supports the creation, monitoring and review of Business Development activities around his/her solution- or industry- specialization area. Defines innovative approaches to generate business and executes either directly or via the team together with manager/expert. Supports implementation of core strategies and actions to ensure KPI/revenue achievement.

· Assists in coaching the Channel and Key Account Managers sales reps to interact with prospects in large or complex SW deals in his area of solution / industry expertise in order to position the value of the respective SW or

industry solution as supported by ROI, business case development, references, and supporting analyst data. Helps to ensure a high conversion rate from pipeline to deal closure, shortening of the sales process and improvement of win rate in order to achieve real volume business. Be familiar with the CX competition in Brazilian market and assigned industry. Understand competitive threats (e.g., how to beat the competition).

· Reporting on sales progress throughout the year; identification of deviations from plans agreed and actively engaging in measures to deliver goals agreed to.

· Tracks customer activity in internal systems in order to execute sales strategy and identify additional opportunities.

· May provide customer demos and/or product training as necessary.

Account and Customer Relationship Management and Cloud Subscription Revenue.

· Sales strategies - Develops effective and specific account / target group / industry plans to ensure revenue target delivery and sustainable growth. Develop relationships in new and existing customers and leverage to drive strategy through organization.

· Trusted advisor - Establishes relationships based on knowledge of customer requirements and commitment to value (value of counsel and expertise, value of solutions, value of implementation expertise, TCO). Builds a foundation on which to harvest future business opportunities and accurate account information and coaching.

· Business Planning – Participate in the development and delivery of comprehensive business plan to address customer and prospects priorities and pain points. Understand volume business benchmarking and ROI data and how they support the customer’s decision process. Work with Sales and volume business leadership to deploy tools effectively.

· Advance and close sales opportunities - through the successful execution of the sales strategy and roadmap. Collaborate with and support sales management on negotiation of close strategy and contracting.

Qualifications

· Solid direct sales experience selling enterprise SaaS Business Applications for Procurement, to  large enterprises (required)

· You have previous experience utilizing partners, channels and alliances to sell more successfully and overachieve your quota.

· You have sold a similar complex solution software and have experience in any of the following SaaS application for Procurement,  Digital Signature, AI, Analytics and business.

· You have a measurable track record in new business development and over achieving sales targets

· Experience in selling complex enterprise software solutions and ability to adapt in fast-growing and changing environments

· Experience in successfully selling during market creation phase

· Proven track record of successfully closing six and seven figure software licensing deals with prospects and customers in the defined territory.

· Experience in the “C” suite, strong executive presence and polish, and excellent listening skills.

· Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques; knowledge of Procurement, 

· Bachelor's degree; MBA a plus or equivalent experience

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Requisition ID: 446419  | Work Area: Sales  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid