SAP Looking for Senior Procurement Solution Advisor at Auckland City Full Time

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Please note:

• Role can be based in either Auckland or Wellington locations
• We will prioritise applicants currently residing in New Zealand given restricted visa and relocation availability.

For this role we are looking for someone with strong SAP ERP Procurement functional business knowledge across both ECC and S/4HANA with an understanding of interactions with other procurement solutions, such as SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass. The role has a focus on driving adoption of the Intelligent Spend Management by engaging existing and prospective customers by showing empathy and creating a memorable experience across our end-to-end engagement with the outcome of a customer for life. To achieve this, you will need to be able to help identify and execute demand generation activities, become an educator of both our customers and supporting partners, undertake discovery to understand the business drivers for change, deliver engaging and value driven demonstrations, strategic proof of concepts to our prospects and throughout the whole process provide a memorable experience. To achieve a customer for life the relationship must not stop at point of sale but continue post sale by ensuring hand-off to the services partner and continue to follow up with the customer post sale to ensure we have a customer for life.

The primary responsibilities are to influence the Sales effort by working closely with the sales team by:

• Listening to customers’ and prospects’ Procurement and Spend Management problems and needs
• Communicating SAP vision for Intelligent Spend Management via multiple solutions – S/4 HANA, SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, etc
• Leading compelling, memorable and tailored product demonstrations
• Additional responsibilities include taking the lead in responding to functional RFx’s and helping the team build supporting ROI business cases for prospects and customers.
• Presenting our solutions to a diverse range of stakeholders in many different industries from the C-suite to the hands-on end user
• Providing our customers with solution expertise to support strategic Proof of Concepts.
• Maintaining knowledge with quarterly release cycles you need to proactively stay up to date on latest enhancements and new capability
• Working with a diverse team spread across ANZ you will work on a variety of opportunities
• Innovate, innovate and innovate across client solution architected, presentations given and those mesmerizing demonstration
• Display deep knowledge of the customer’s processes (e.g., Procurement, Sourcing, Accounts Payable, Finance).
• Acts as the “voice of the customer” and sales liaison to Product Management, Product Development, and Product Strategy

You, simply put, are

• The Intelligent Spend Management evangelist
• You are a guru at procurement solutions (Ariba, Fieldglass, etc), as well at ERP Material Management (MM)
• A pipeline generator
• Empathetic
• Prepared to be flexible
• Love the Cloud
• A presentation Ninja
• Incredibly memorable
• Able to excite audiences of all shapes and sizes
• Innovative and creative
• Curious – you learn by exploring, you teach yourself
• Quick learner – new solutions will come into your bag to position for customers
• Great at finding solutions to a customer’s problems
• Always improving yourself
• A team player who loves to share and contribute
• Anxious to join the best presales team on the planet
• Open to travelling as required!

Required Qualifications

• Requires 8+ years of professional experience
• SAP ERP (ECC and/or S/4) Material Management (MM) experience, certification, and/or consulting experience. Alternatively, Core ERP, SRM and/or Plant Maintenance experience.
• 5+ years of application Presales (Solution Advisory) experience, or Consulting knowledge
• Any relevant Procurement and/or Digital Supply Chain experience is very highly prized.

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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: 339633 | Work Area: Presales | Expected Travel: 0 – 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.