S/4hana Cloud Solution Advisor

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**S/4HANA Cloud Solution Advisor Senior Specialist**

**About the role**

The Solution Advisor Senior Specialist possesses expert level knowledge of **SAP S/4HANA** Cloud (ERP) Applications and participates in sales cycles as a member of the virtual account team in support of the sales account strategy. They leverage their deep expertise to support the entire **sales**cycle, from identifying opportunities to post-sale customer adoption.

A Solution Advisor Senior Specialist S/4HANA Cloud interacts with prospective customers through **executive meetings and presentations**, discovery conversations, solution demonstrations, and follow-up discussions. The primary role of the Solution Advisor Senior Specialist during an active sales cycle is to gain acceptance from the customer that SAP solution can solve the customer’s problem and is the right choice over the other competitive offerings.

The Solution Advisor Senior Specialist S/4HANA Cloud acts as a trusted advisor to customers and partners. They engage with SAP Sales teams and SAP partners to identify the value S/4HANA Cloud brings to our customers and explain how this value can be realized. This includes collaborations to drive transformational sales cycles and activities like bidding, creating the proposal of S/4HANA Cloud and transformation scenarios, business capability analysis, Bill-of-Material definition and “fast
- time-to-value” scenario proposals.

**What you’ll do**

The Solution Advisor Senior Specialist is instrumental in creating and delivering superior sales presentations on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, tailored especially for a wide variety of audiences, including top-tier company executives.

Key tasks include (not limited to)

**Deal Support**
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Collaborate with Account Team members** (Architects, Sales, Services, Bid Centre, other solution advisors...) providing deal support to opportunities across industries.
- Conduct discovery sessions with prospects/customers to build relationships with them and understand their unique needs.
- Compose and deliver S/4HANA Cloud presentations to prospective customer audiences. The presentations must articulate the sales message, differentiate SAP, and leave a strong and positive impression to a diverse range of customer stakeholders in different industries, from the CFOs and other CXOs to the hands-on end user.
- Deliver personalized/standard demos of SAP S/4HANA, preferably in the area of **Finance, Procurement and/or Supply Chain**:

- Identify, articulate and present innovations from SAP that could be useful for customer including topics of Business AI and, Sustainability.
- Demonstrate solid knowledge of **SAP S/4HANA Cloud** to maintain credibility with prospective customers. Provide proof points with relevant customer stories.
- Support RFx completion in support of customer proposals.
- Provide limited post-sale support to key customers, primarily to the project/implementation team to ensure a smooth transition.
- Effectively leverage support teams who are there to support presales success. (Global / Regional Solution Specialists, Domain Experts, Solution Hubs, Product Management, ).
- Create a memorable experience with an intended impact across all interactions with our customers by ensuring adherence to the operational best practices such as:

- Ensuring quality and empathetic discovery sessions aiming to understand the customer's business transformation requirements to the cloud.
- Identify priorities to focus on for a customer’s business transformation (using the results from Signavio Process Insights)
- Executing dry runs and presenting SAP’s compelling user experience for all use cases
- Execute Digital Discovery Assessment
- Articulate S/4HANA Cloud competitive advantage to customers and prospects

**Business Developement Support**
- Identify and execute demand generation activities in collaboration with the sales teams and marketing to ensure sufficient pipeline coverage for the Business Suite and S/4HANA Cloud in particular.
- Support one-to-many sales and marketing events both on-site and remotely.
- Support and lead customer visits in our Customer Experience Center. Focus is both on the value of S/4HANA Cloud and the overall SAP strategy.
- Lead & support customer workshops to promote new and innovative solutions for customers and prospects.

**What you bring**
- Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in in Business Administra