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Working at SAP

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Join SAP as a Senior Account Executive - Public Sector in Gurgaon, IN (Hybrid). This Regular Full Time professional role focuses on driving cloud revenue growth, managing executive customer relationships, and executing strategic account plans in the public sector and government segment.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in sales of complex business software or IT solutions in the public sector or government sales domain.
  • Proven track record in business application software sales and leading team-selling environments.
  • Demonstrated success with large transactions and lengthy sales campaigns in a competitive market.
  • Exceptional contractual and negotiation skills.
  • Fluent business-level English and local language.
  • No specific degree is explicitly required by the posting.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Complex Sales: Drive cloud revenue growth and lead sales campaigns for large transactions in the public sector.
  • Negotiation: Utilize exceptional contractual and negotiation skills to secure deals and close agreements.
  • Relationship Building: Establish strong management and C-suite relationships to act as a trusted advisor.
  • Sales Territory Management: Develop strategic account plans, lead designated territories, and manage CRM systems.
  • Potential transition routes: People from enterprise software sales, government account management, or complex B2B technology sales may bring strong negotiation and client management skills, alongside meeting the 10+ years public sector sales requirement.

Job description

We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

What you'll bring

Bring your ability to independently build and execute customer-centric strategies in the public sector / government segment, manage executive relationships, and drive cloud revenue growth by positioning SAP's portfolio to meet customer challenges and deliver lasting value.

  • 10+ years of experience in sales of complex business software / IT solutions in the public sector / government sales domain.
  • Proven track record in business application software sales.
  • 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.
  • Exceptional contractual and negotiation skills.
  • Business level English: Fluent
  • Local language: Fluent, Business Level

What you'll build

You will independently develop and execute strategic account plans, manage executive customer relationships, expand SAP's solutions footprint aligned with customer goals, manage pipeline, drive cloud adoption and consumption, and collaborate with account teams and partners to ensure continuous value delivery. The role drives cloud revenue growth and customer success by building and executing customer-centric strategies that align with business goals and position SAP's cloud solutions to meet customer challenges. Through strategic account management, pipeline execution, and cross-functional collaboration, it expands SAP's solutions footprint and maximises customer lifetime value.

  • Annual Revenue - Achieve / exceed quota targets.
  • Sales strategies- Align SAP Cloud /SaaS solutions with the public sector customer's strategic objectives - Develops best practice account plans to ensure revenue target delivery and sustainable growth. Develop relationships in new and existing public sector and government customers and leverage to drive complex strategy through complex and global organizations.
  • Trusted advisor - Establishes strong management and Cxx 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.

Sales Excellence

  • Build and share best practice sales and negotiation skills.
  • 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.

Where you belong

At SAP, you will be part of an inclusive, global community of sales professionals committed to driving cloud revenue growth and delivering outstanding customer outcomes. Together, we build a culture where commercial ambition, customer empathy, and collaborative execution combine to advance SAP's cloud strategy and long-term customer success.

Skills: Customer Value Proposition · Negotiation · Overcoming Objections · Account Governance · Cloud Strategy · Sales Territory Management · Competitive Positioning · Complex Sales · Relationship Building · Industry Analysis · Sales Qualification · Customer Relationship Management · Sales Forecasting · Customer Value Journey Alignment · Customer Engagement · AI Value Selling · Strategic AI Synthesis · Data-Driven Stakeholder Engagement · Context Engineering · AI Output Quality Assurance · Agentic AI Day-to-Day Practice · AI-Assisted Automation and Prototyping · AI Adoption Capability

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 world.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

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.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process.

Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 455006 | Work Area: Sales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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SAP

Senior Account Executive - Public Sector

Gurgaon
Hybrid

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