Global Demand Management Leader

Job Description

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.

Objective: The Demand Management Leader acts as the Top of the Funnel brain and execution engine of SAP’s demand ecosystem. This role drives better-informed and data-driven top of the funnel investment decisions, alignment of top of the funnel activities across functions (e.g. marketing, digital hub, sales, partnerships, CSM, etc.) and Lines of Business (e.g. ERP, F&S, HCM, BDC, BTP, CX, SCM, etc.), consolidation of best practice and higher conversion of high-value pipeline. This role is critical in turning top of the funnel information and insights into strategic decisions and helps SAP focus on high-impact demand, cut out low-yield activity, and strengthen the link between marketing, sales, and product investment.

This role focuses on maximizing ROI by using data to guide decisions and reallocating resources as needed. While it doesn’t own reporting, it drives insight-based actions and works closely with RevOps/S&O to address reporting gaps and align on expectations. Additionally, it delivers insights to senior leadership, identifies new and creative top-of-the-funnel activities to generate more pipeline, and supports the adoption of a best-in-class top-of-the-funnel toolset.

It is important to have an entrepreneurial mindset, quickly identify what’s working, what’s not, and where the business must pivot to maximize ROI from its demand-generation efforts—across marketing, partners, campaigns, events etc.

Key Responsibilities & Focus Areas

1. Demand Generation Innovation & Enablement

Drive net new pipeline through global demand programs across LoBs by piloting innovative tactics, uncovering whitespace, and equipping teams with scalable tools, playbooks, and data-driven guidance. It emphasizes best practice sharing across regions and business units, fostering cross-regional collaboration and empowering local teams through enablement and consistent guidance. Clear expectations should be set for how Regions, MUs, and SAs staff and structure their Demand Management efforts.

1. Data Integrity & Insight Delivery

Ensure accurate opportunity data across SAP tools (e.g., CRM, Harmony, Outreach) and delivers actionable reporting that converts numbers into strategic insights. It defines business requirements for reports and dashboards, partnering with RevOps/S&O to shape these tools while focusing on interpreting insights rather than producing raw reports. The role uses insights to proactively identify pipeline and coverage gaps, challenge teams on areas for improvement, and guide data-driven decision-making.

1. High-Value Opportunity Intelligence (>€250K)

Analyze all new opportunities above €250K to understand their source, success drivers, and recurring patterns, delivering recommendations on what to start, stop, or scale to improve demand generation and eliminate inefficiencies. As a known gap, lead high-value opportunity analysis, ensuring insights directly inform LoB strategy and subsequent actions.

1. Source Attribution & Investment Strategy

Assess demand generation performance at the source level—campaigns, events, partners, and more—to identify what consistently delivers quality pipeline. Guide strategic shifts in demand investment based on source-level performance and pipeline quality trends, recommending reallocations based on ROI.

1. Opportunity Quality, Governance & Risk Monitoring

Track discontinued and disqualified opportunities over €250K, analyzing lead source, time in funnel, and disqualification reasons to identify qualification issues and speculative pipeline. Focus on interpreting patterns to improve targeting, while data management responsibility lies with RevOps.

1. Loss Analysis & Conversion Bottlenecks

Monitor high-value losses to identify sales execution, product issues or competitive gaps. using findings to improve conversion rates and pipeline quality. The role focuses not just on generating insights, but also driving actions across Enablement, Sales, and Product. It's crucial that CROs play a key role in securing qualitative customer feedback post-loss, as this is not just a data issue but also a feedback collection challenge.

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 world.

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For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 224700 - 381900(USD) USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: 428545 | Work Area:Presales | Expected Travel: 0 - 40% | Career Status: Executive | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: Open to Global SAP Office Locations