Senior Account Executive - Telco

apartmentSAP Middle East & North Africa placeDubai calendar_month 

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

We help the world run better

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.

What you'll do:

The Senior Account Executive (SAE) role empowers customers to achieve their full potential by strategically positioning SAP cloud solutions to address their unique business challenges and lay a strong foundation for future success. The role includes the following key aspects:

  • Account & Customer Relationship Management:
  • Serve as the end-to-end account owner, managing sales of software licenses and cloud subscriptions and establish a trusted relationship with the customer.
  • Develop and execute strategic account plans to ensure sustainable growth and achieve/exceed revenue targets.
  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of each customer's technology landscape, strategic goals, and competitive environment.
  • Demand Generation, Pipeline, and Opportunity Management:
  • Maintain pipeline management, ensuring a healthy and advancing sales funnel.
  • Leverage internal resources, including marketing, inside sales, and partner channels, to drive demand and manage opportunities.
  • Utilize SAP's comprehensive solution portfolio, including industry-specific and line-of-business (LoB) solutions, to effectively address customer needs.
  • Sales Excellence:
  • Conduct White Space analysis to identify and execute up-sell and cross-sell opportunities within existing accounts.
  • Orchestrate and deploy appropriate teams to ensure successful sales outcomes, embodying the "OneSAP" approach.
  • Stay informed about SAP's competition and position SAP solutions effectively against them.
  • Maintain accurate customer and pipeline information within CRM systems.
  • Leading a (Virtual) Account Team:
  • Lead and orchestrate remote and cross-functional teams to align with the customer's strategic objectives.
  • Ensure that account teams and partners are well-prepared and strategically positioned for all customer interactions.
  • Maximize the value derived from SAP's extensive sales support ecosystem.

What you bring:

  • 5+ years of experience in sales of complex business software/IT solutions.
  • Experience in UAE Telco sector essential.
  • Proven success in business application software sales and leading team-selling environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to handle large transactions and lengthy sales campaigns in a fast-paced, competitive market.
  • Strong negotiation skills and experience in renewals, expansions, and up-sells of subscription-based solutions.
  • Fluent in Business English and Arabic, with proficiency in additional languages considered a plus.

Soft skills:

  • Exceptional communication, both verbal and non-verbal.
  • Strategic thinking with a high degree of creativity and innovation.
  • Strong executive presence and results-driven mindset.
  • Ability to work across multiple teams within a matrix organization.

Meet your team:

  • Join a highly motivated team with a deep understanding of SAP's solution portfolio.
  • Engage in collaborative work with SAP leadership and industry teams to drive customer success.
  • Align with product/solution management teams to enhance your strategic engagements.
  • Leverage your expertise while working in a dynamic and challenging environment at the forefront of SAP's customer engagements.

Skills you'll use:

Professional Skills
  • Customer Orientation
  • Effective Communication
  • Establishing Trust
  • Collaboration
  • Results Orientation
Tech Industry & SAP General Skills
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Process Improvement
  • Technology Innovation
  • SAP Cloud Suite Portfolio
  • RISE and GROW with SAP
  • SAP Corporate Strategy
Role Specific Skills
  • Cloud Strategy
  • Complex Sales
  • Customer Engagement
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Industry Knowledge
  • Negotiation
  • Sales Forecasting
  • Sales Qualification
  • Competitive Positioning
  • Account Governance

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.

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.

Equal opportunity employer statement:
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, etc.), 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.

Additional information
  • Work area: Sales
  • Expected travel: 0 - 10%
  • Career status: Professional
  • Employment type: Regular full time
  • Location: Dubai, Dubai, AE

About the Company

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends SAP's leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing.

SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.

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