SAP Academy for Sales: Account Executive - Kenya at SAP

What We Offer

Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. 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. Apply now!

Are you self-motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit? Are you passionate about building relationships? Would you thrive in a role where you drive and develop customer accounts in a fast paced, technology space for one of the world’s most valuable brands?

The SAP Academy for Sales is a world-class training program that develops our next generation sales force by delivering an energizing and inspiring experience within a globally diverse environment. For 2022, the dynamic nine-month program builds a foundation for a successful career at SAP. The program facilitates multi-dimensional, experiential learning with a focus on digital transformation, global intelligence, human skills, business and technology acumen, solution/industry knowledge, and strategy/tools/process.

During the program, you will receive onboarding in your local market, innovative classroom-style learning in a virtual environment delivered by a full-time faculty combined with on-the-job training and mentoring by Senior Account Executives in the field. Upon successful program completion, you will move into a direct customer-facing sales role in your market and continue to receive mentoring and coaching support to accelerate your growth.

Join us for the opportunity of a lifetime, to develop a global peer network, partner and engage with customers to help solve their unique business challenges, and leverage world-class cloud-based products and services, all while earning a great salary and benefits.

Education And Work Experience

• Successful completion of a Bachelor or Masters’ degree.
• 2-3 years’ work experience with a proven record of customer facing sales success and direct quota-carrying experience.
• Strong communication and presentation skills including fluency in English and local language.
• Strong Business Acumen including demonstrated knowledge of business process and/or industries.

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• During the extraordinary time of the COVID-19 pandemic, current temporary SAP guidance requires all employees to work from their homes. If, as of the intended March 2022 start date of the 2022 program, SAP’s work from home guidance is still in effect, participation in the program will be on a virtual basis from your current home address until further SAP guidance is provided.

Upon selection into the sales academy, you will be aligned to a specific market unit or specific solution in license sales or aligned to Services Sales based on the needs of the business.

We are SAP

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 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 200 million users and more than 100,000 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, we build breakthroughs, together.

Our inclusion promise

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 and more equitable world.

SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide 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: Americas: Careers.NorthAmerica@sap.com or Careers.LatinAmerica@sap.com, APJ: Careers.APJ@sap.com, EMEA: Careers@sap.com.