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Position Overview

The Private Markets business within SAP is responsible for our engagement with leading investment firms and their portfolio companies - spanning Private Equity, Growth Equity, Venture Capital, Corporate Venture, Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Banks, and Asset Managers.

We create measurable value for investors and their portfolio companies by enabling the adoption of SAP AI, Public Cloud, and industry-specific solutions. We work very closely with investor operating partners and portfolio company C-level executives to accelerate digital transformation, enhance operational performance, and maximize technology investment returns.

You will collaborate closely with SAP’s sales, solution, and partner ecosystem teams to deliver impactful, scalable results across the investment lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities1. Executive Relationship Management

• Build and manage trusted senior-level relationships with technology operating partners, CIOs, CFOs, and portfolio company leadership teams.

• Position and influence SAP as the strategic partner of choice for AI-driven, public cloud-enabled digital transformation.

• Maintain active engagement with both investor and portfolio company stakeholders across Global, Regional, and Market Unit levels to ensure alignment and ongoing value delivery.

2. Sales Enablement & Execution Identify, qualify, and drive new opportunities across portfolio companies, aligned to investor strategies and sector priorities

• Supporting portfolio company deal execution with all AE-F and VAT teams to accelerate pipeline creation, deal conversion, and adoption.

• Work with the Territory Ecosystem Managers to ensure we are embodying Indirect by Default selling

• Work closely with the SAP Global Private Markets team to execute global strategy and own the Private Markets volume motion enablement to MUs e.g.

Investor Framework Agreement adoption:

• Provide monthly updates to SAP Global Private Markets team on progress, key risks, and measurable impact across your assigned portfolio company accounts.

3. Implementation & Value Realization

• Serve as strategic advisor from contract signature to full adoption — ensuring successful deployment, user adoption, and business impact.

• Partner with SAP Services and implementation partners to meet and exceed business outcome targets.

• Monitor, track, and report on adoption success metrics, proactively managing risk and removing barriers to success.

4. Internal Collaboration & Influence

• Work cross-functionally with SAP’s ecosystem, marketing, solution engineering, industry teams, and partner organization to ensure coordinated, investor-specific engagement.

• Provide regular updates to senior SAP leadership on progress, key risks, and measurable impact across your assigned investor accounts.

5. SAP Private Markets Brand Awareness

• Running MU campaigns with Digital Hub to target portfolio companies

• Support the Global Private Markets team to build brand equity and trust within Private Markets community in MUs via targeted Executive events

• Increasing Private Markets ecosystem partners in Region through the SAP Private Markets Partner Program

Candidate Profile

• Significant experience of selling and delivering enterprise technology solutions into complex, multi-stakeholder environments

• Understanding of private equity/venture capital operating models and the value drivers for portfolio companies.

• Experience of selling into private equity or venture capital-backed organizations

• Commercial acumen, strategic thinking, and a bias for action in high-growth environments.

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams to drive end-to-end customer success

• Deep understanding of ERP, public cloud, and AI technologies.

• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, and influence skills.

• Experience of working in a global multi-national organisation across different cultures and time zones

• Familiarity with SAP product suite or equivalent enterprise applications.

• Experience working with implementation partners and managing go-to-market motions.

• Strong executive presence and consultative selling ability

• Ability to travel as required to meet clients and partners

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.

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Requisition ID: 443855 | Work Area: Sales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: