Sales Manager - Public Sector

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.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing a team of account executives (5 fte) and selling SAP's products and solutions to SAP's customers in the Public Sector, focused on named accounts.
• Maintains customer relationships and influences customers' requirements' specifications.
• Typically carries a quota.

Accountability:

• Manages resources, ensuring business critical & innovative results.
• Builds action plans and makes operational decisions on policies, tactics, and resources critical to the function's business success to ensure delivery against strategy of the function or team.
• Accountable for annual goals established for team or department.
• Directs activities of a team or department of professionals and supports staff.
• Co-ownership of Public Sector strategy with industry experts.
• Alignment of Public Sector strategy with the sales go-to market.
• Execution of public sector go-to market.

Complexity:

• Makes day-to-day decisions within or for a team or department.
• Works collaboratively with direct reports.
• Regularly applies expertise in day-to-day activities.

Experience:

• Increasing managerial experience.
• Sound professional experience.
• Demonstrates all management responsibilities: create the future; build a team; develop people; manage performance.

Communication:

• Builds strategic partnerships with key decision makers in customer & partner organizations.
• Fluent communication skills in both English.

Location: This role is based in South Africa, and we are not able to consider candidates who require relocation.

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.

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: 423725 | Work Area: Sales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Management | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.