Supply Chain Management Solution Advisor Specialist

Supply Chain Management Solution Advisor Specialist

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. 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.

Deal Support

The SAP Supply Chain Management Solution Advisor is instrumental in sculpting and delivering unparalleled sales presentations on SAP S/4HANA, tailored especially for discerning audiences, including top-tier company executives. Key tasks include:

• Delivering overview of SAP S/4HANA Procurement and Inventory Management to our prospects.
• Collaborate with VAT Team members (Enterprise Architects, Sales, Bid Centre, and solution advisors ...) to provide deal support to opportunities across Industry.
• Conduct in-depth discovery sessions with prospects.
• Deliver personalized/standard demo of SAP S/4HANA in the area of Supply Chain Management (includes Sourcing and Procurement, Inventory, Warehousing etc.).
• Identify, articulate and present innovations from SAP that could be useful for customers including topics of Business AI, Sustainability etc.
• Create a memorable experience with an intended impact across all interactions with our customers by ensuring you adhere to operational best practices such as:
• Ensuring quality and empathetic discovery sessions,
• Executing dry runs, and
• Presenting SAP’s compelling user experience for all use cases.
• Create and utilize digital assets.
• Execute Digital Discovery Assessment.
• Articulate S/4HANA Supply Chain Management competitive advantage to customers and prospects.
• Define roadmap of adoption and consumption for our prospects.

Business Development Support

• Identify and execute demand generation activities in collaboration with the sales teams and marketing to ensure sufficient pipeline coverage for the Digital Core and S/4HANA Supply Chain Management in particular.
• Support Marketing Events.

Support Partner Ecosystem

• Invest time in educating SAP Partners to enable them to support their software selling motions and help us scale.
• Lead and deliver enablement sessions for Sales Team across Africa.

A day in the life…

• Work closely with the sales team to understand customers’ business transformation requirements to the cloud and help define sales strategy, drive qualification, deal governance, and create a roadmap for the journey to the Cloud through S/4HANA with SAP solution offerings.
• Lead and coordinate across multiple SAP internal teams (Product, Architects, Sales, Bid Centre, and solution advisors ...) to provide deal support to opportunities across Industry.
• Explaining and Running Digital Discovery Engagements and Roadmap-Assessments with prospects.
• Present SAP solutions to a diverse range of stakeholders in many different industries from the CPOs and other CXOs to the hands-on end user.
• Provide our customers with solution expertise to support strategic engagements.
• Maintain knowledge with quarterly release cycles to proactively stay up to date on latest enhancements and new capabilities.
• Innovate, innovate and innovate across customer solution architected, presentations given and engaging demonstrations.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Operations or related discipline required from an accredited university. MBA or advanced degree in related discipline preferred.
• Certified and/or Trained in the area of Sourcing and Procurement for SAP S/4HANA.
• Knowledge of additional S/4HANA modules will put you at an advantage.
• Expertise in an Industry such as Mining, High tech, Retail, Professional Services, Manufacturing etc. will be a plus.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition in the areas of Inventory Management will be an added advantage.
• Project and Consulting Experience in SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC 6.0 Implementations and corresponding project programs.
• Customer Focused and Flexible time for regional coverage.
• Professional experience, and we’d love it if you had a broad set of Core SAP ERP experience.
• End to end SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC 6.0 implementations will be highly desirable.
• Experience in presales, technology consulting, or a comparable customer-facing role is essential, with a demonstrated proficiency in S/4HANA Supply Chain Management.
• Knowledge of SAP Activate for SAP S/4HANA as well as tools, accelerators available for our customers, partners.

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. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

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. 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.

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: 423807 | Work Area: Presales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.