Job Title: SAP Academy for Presales
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Employer: SAP
Do you demand the best from your professional career? Are you inspired by excellence? At SAP, you will have the power to make a real impact. As the global market leader for business software, SAP helps companies and organizations in more than 25 industries to run better.
Purpose and Objectives:
Are you ready to run with the best, making the world run better through innovation and technology? Our next generation programs are looking for people who are excited about the future, who want to lead change for our customers, and take our organization to the next level of performance.
If this sounds like you, then the SAP Presales Solution Engineer is for you!
The Presales Solution Engineering role at SAP is a customer-facing role primarily responsible for building and delivering high-impact, detailed software demonstrations of SAP solutions.
Demonstrations can range from a one hour, high level executive presentation to a multi-day demonstration event. A Solution Engineer partners with the sales organization on a customer engagement providing the product expertise, industry knowledge and presentation skills to deliver software demonstrations that set SAP apart from the competition.
The SAP Academy for Presales will fully prepare you to become a high performing Solution Engineer. The SAP Academy For Presales is part of the SAP Academy located in Dublin, California. The Presales Academy is an intensive, accelerated program for very recent university graduates consisting of 6 months of innovative classroom training in Dublin, California followed by 6 months of additional training and mentoring in the student's home country. During this highly structured curriculum, students will focus on business fundamentals which will provide a strong foundation for a Presales profession. Skills will be developed in the SAP Presales methodology, presentation delivery, Design Thinking, SAP solutions and industries and the tools and support organizations available to help drive the student's success. Design Thinking is a core part of the Presales role; Design thinking describes a repeatable process generating unique and creative techniques which produce guaranteed results. Students will also have the opportunity to develop and demonstrate key skills in project management, business acumen, effective teamwork, executive-level communication and SAP values. Upon successful completion of the one year program, students will be integrated directly into the SAP Presales organization having assisted in building pipeline and fully engaged in active sales cycles.
Expectations and Tasks:
• Actively participate in a supporting role in customer facing presentations
• Support demand generation activities by staffing marketing events
• Provide deal execution support by responding to Requests for Proposals
• Participate in discovery and site survey activities
• Assist with post sale customer care engagements
• Build value based demonstrations/presentations
Desired Skills and Experience: Completion of a Bachelor's degree or equivalent is required with an expectation of being in the top 1/3 of class. The SAP Academy for Presales looks for a wide variety of backgrounds although degrees in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Engineering, Human Resources or general business studies are preferred.
Candidates should display the following competencies and requirements:
• Demonstrated leadership in curricular and extra-curricular activities
• An aptitude and passion for public speaking
• Strong interpersonal skills Self- starter who is curious and creative
• Possess a strong desire to work in a dynamic, fast paced sales organization providing demand generation & deal execution support
• Technically oriented possessing an aptitude for rapidly learning complex software applications
• Be eager to excel in a vigorous, structured 12-month training program with significant quarterly certification requirements
• Possess strong business aptitude and working knowledge of at least 1 industry
• Be able to rapidly assimilate and distil complex topics in the form of a presentation
• Be willing to relocate for the first 6 months of the program to Dublin, California and potentially after completion of the one year program
• Fluent in English, written and spoken
Work Experience:
• Work experience including internships is preferable
• Relevant coursework/projects that demonstrate your communication and interpersonal skills, as well as a strong work ethic that delivers high quality deliverables
Application Process:
• After clicking on the "Apply" button, you will be taken to our SAP Academy site. From there you can choose either the SAP Academy for Sales or the SAP Academy for Presales and begin the application process, which begins with an assessment.
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