Strategic Account Executive, Canada, East

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**We help the world run better**

**What you'll do**:
The Account Executive’s primary responsibilities include prospecting, qualifying, selling and closing new business to existing and net new customers. The Account Executive brings a Point of View to the Customer engagement; uses all resources to solve customer problems with appropriate SAP products.
- Account and Customer Relationship Management, Sales and Software License and Cloud Subscription Revenue.
- Annual Revenue - Achieve / exceed quota targets.
- Sales strategies - Develops effective and specific account 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 strong relationships based on knowledge of customer requirements and commitment to value (value of counsel and expertise, value of solutions, value of implementation expertise). Builds a foundation on which to harvest future business opportunities and accurate account information and coaching.
- Customer Acumen - Actively understand each customer’s technology footprint, strategic growth plans, technology strategy and competitive landscape. Review public information (e.g. new executive appointments, earnings statements, press releases) for the company and its competitors to remain updated on key industry trends and issues impacting the prospect.
- Territory and Account Leadership - Lead designated territory, including accounts, account relationships, prospect profiling, and sales cycles. Encourage all accounts to become SAP references.
- Business Planning - Develop and deliver comprehensive business plan to address customer and prospects priorities and pain points. Utilize VE, benchmarking and ROI data to support the customer’s decision process.
- Demand Generation, Pipeline and Opportunity Management
- Pipeline planning - Follow a disciplined approach to maintaining a rolling pipeline. Keep pipeline current and moving up the pipeline curve.
- Pipeline partnerships - Leverage support organizations including Marketing, Inside sales, Partners and channels to funnel pipeline into the assigned territory.
- Leverage SAP Solutions - Be proficient in and bring all SAP offers to bear on sales pursuits including Industry Solutions, LOB solutions (CRM, SCM, HCM, SRM et. al) and technology solutions (Business Analytics, Mobility, Database and Technology, et. al)
- Advance and close sales opportunities - through the successful execution of the sales strategy and roadmap.
- Support all SAP promotions and events in the territory
- Sales Excellence
- Sell value.
- Maintain White Space analysis and execution of initiatives (up sell and cross sell) on customer base.
- Orchestrate resources: deploy appropriate teams to execute winning sales. Create OneSAP.
- Utilize best practice sales models.
- Understand SAP’s competition and effectively position solutions against them.
- Maintain CRM system with accurate customer and pipeline information.
- Leading a (Virtual) Account Team
- Demonstrates leadership skills in the orchestration of remote teams.
- Ensure account teams and Partners are well versed in each account’s strategy and well positioned for all customer touch points and events. Maximize the value of all sales support organizations.

**What you bring**:

- 10+ years of experience in sales of complex business software / IT solutions
- Experience in lead role of a team-selling environment.
- Demonstrated success with large transactions and lengthy sales campaigns in a fast-paced, consultative and competitive market.
- Business level English: Fluent
- Local language: Fluent, Business Level
- Bachelor equivalent

**DESCRIPTION DU RÔLE**:
Les principales responsabilités du Commercial comprennent la prospection, la qualification, la vente et la conclusion de nouveaux contrats avec des clients existants et de tout nouveaux clients. Le Commercial apporte un point de vue à la relation client; il utilise toutes les ressources pour résoudre les problèmes des clients à l’aide des produits SAP appropriés.

**ATTENTES ET TÂCHES**:

- Gestion de la relation client et des comptes, ventes et chiffre d'affaires sur licences de logiciels et abonnements Cloud.
- Chiffre d'affaires annuel: atteint/dépasse les objectifs de quota.
- Stratégies de vente: développe des plans de comptes efficaces et spécifiques afin de garantir l'obtention du chiffre d'affaires visé et une croissance durable. Développe des relations avec les clients existants et nouveaux, afin de mener à bien une stratégie au sein de l'entreprise.
- Conseiller de confiance: établit d’étroites relations basées sur la connaissance des besoins des clients et l'engagement envers la valeur (valeur du conseil et de l'expertise, valeur des solutions, valeur de l'implémentation). Crée une base permettant de rassembler les futures opportunités ainsi que les inf