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Job Title: UK Super Region Alliance Sales Executive – SAP
Business Unit: UKI CTO Office
Reporting to: UKI Alliance Leader
Grade/Level: Director
Overview Of The Role
The Alliance Sales Executive plays a critical role in driving revenue growth by identifying, shaping, and closing joint sales opportunities (primarily ‘Sell with’ motions) between EY, our alliance partners, and our clients.
Acting as the commercial catalyst between clients, alliance partners, and EY’s account teams and Service Lines, you’ll be relentless in originating and driving the pursuit of new business, leading complex sales cycles from initiation to signed contract.
You’ll be a market-facing, experienced seller and subject matter expert focused on the overall Alliance sales strategy generally and SAP solutions specifically. We expect the individuals to be motivated by fast moving technologies, driving innovation and collaboration across complex stakeholder groups.
You will build deep relationships with the alliance partner field sales teams, advocate and evangelize for EY and be the face of SAP within EY to our sector and account teams and help expand the EY SAP Alliance in the super region.
Expectations of the Role
- Opportunity Origination: Proactively identify and qualify opportunities for collaborative sales pursuits with clients, alliance partners and internal EY teams.
- Product Knowledge: Have and maintain a deep and comprehensive technical, functional and commercial understanding of your alliance partner’s product(s), offerings and services.
- Solutioning: Support client and pursuit teams to understand the technical options which best address client issues, and which can enhance EY solutions and pursuits.
Key Experience & Skills Required
- Proven track record in B2B solutioning and sales, ideally in professional services or technology-led environments, with experience carrying a quota.
- Experience selling in an ecosystem — ideally with or alongside hyperscalers (e.g., Microsoft, AWS, Google) or major SaaS providers (SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Oracle).
- Demonstrated ability to originate and close complex deals involving multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent relationship-building skills with both clients and alliances partners.
- Ability to bring together and drive cross-functional teams in high-pressure, deadline-driven pursuits.
- Strong relationship building, communication and storytelling skills.
- Comfortable operating between two (or more) large, matrixed global organisations.
- Technical background and/ or delivery management leadership experience. An understanding of Enterprise Architecture is advantageous.
- Knowledge of EY or other multi-disciplinary professional services organisations.
- Formal sales training (e.g., Miller Heiman, MEDDIC, Challenger) desirable.
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