Principal Solution Advisor Tax Domain Expert

Location: Midwest near an SAP Office SAP, a global leader in enterprise software, is seeking a highly skilled PrincipalSolution Advisor - TaxDomain Expert to join our innovative team. This senior-level role is critical in driving bookings, generating demand, and ensuring consumption and adoption of SAP’s advanced Taxsolutions. As a trusted advisor, you will engage C-level executives and senior stakeholders, align SAP’s Tax offerings with complex customer business and technology needs, and deliver measurable outcomes, including net bookings, demand growth, renewals, and long-term customer relationships. This role is essential to advancing SAP’s strategic objectives and reinforcing our leadership in tax software and supporting enterprise business growth. Whatyou’lldo: Demand Generation: Lead high-impact 1:1 and 1:M (one-to-many) demand generation initiatives, including targeted executive briefings, workshops, and events to build a robust pipeline for SAP Taxsolutions. Executive Engagement: Spearhead first-time meetings with C-level stakeholders (e.g., CFOs, CIOs, and VPs of Tax) to establish trust, articulate SAP’s value proposition, and align Taxsolutions with customer priorities. Deal Qualification and Progression: Qualify high-potential deals and expertly guide them through the sales cycle, leveraging 1:1 and 1:M strategies to secure closures and maximize revenue. Customer Adoption and Relationship Building: Foster strong post-sale relationships with customers to ensure successful adoption of SAP Taxsolutions, driving long-term satisfaction and expansion opportunities. Workshops and Events: Design and deliver Value Exploration Workshops and Tax-focused sessions to showcase SAP’s capabilities through demonstrations and “art of the possible” presentations to address customer pain points, and provide thought leadership at industry events and internal account planning sessions. Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with account teams to align SAP Taxsolutions with customer business strategies, addressing complex tax requirements including improving quality of financial data, accelerating the financial close for tax organizations, automation of tax processes, and helping provide tax insights to make companies more competitive. Thought Leadership: Challenge customers with innovative perspectives, teach best practices, and pitch Tax process optimizations to drive transformation and inspire proactive growth. Team Mentor: Serve as a “go-to” expert with a strong personal brand, coaching and mentoring sales teams and junior Solution Advisors, and contribute to Voice of the Field initiatives to shape SAP’s Tax product and go-to-market strategies. Broad Impact: Drive measurable outcomes across revenue, renewals, and customer adoption, ensuring a lasting impact on SAP’s Tax solution portfolio. What you bring: Experience: 10+ years in enterprise software sales, solution advisory, or consulting related to corporate Tax including Direct Tax, Indirect Tax, Statutory Filings, e-invoicing, and other international tax fields with a proven track record of engaging C-level executives and driving multi‑million‑dollar deals. Domain Expertise: Deep knowledge of tax processes: direct tax, indirect tax, sales & use tax, international tax, statutory filings, e-invoicing, transfer pricing, and other related areas. Skills: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex Taxsolutions to diverse audiences. Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities to address customer challenges and align solutions with strategic goals. Proven leadership in coaching, mentoring, and teaching sales teams or peers. Ability to deliver compelling workshops, events, and pitches that inspire action. Attributes: Established personal brand as a trusted advisor in the Tax domain. Proactive, innovative mindset with a passion for challenging the status quo. Collaborative team player with the ability to influence cross‑functional stakeholders. Technical Knowledge: Proven experience with SAP Taxsolutions or comparable enterprise tax software. Ability to master SAP’s business architecture is critical. Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred. Travel: Willingness to travel 25%–50% for customer engagements, events, and internal meetings. Compensation Range Transparency SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step towards demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 194,100 – 411,600 (USD). The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through this selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability. 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