Senior Director, Next Generation Innovation, Global Marketing
Walldorf, Bw, De
Develop strategic and creative direction to extend customer experience, voice of customer, programs and promotion to prospective customers, partners, thought leaders, media and analysts. Manage a global team that designs and executes these next generation innovations.Strategic Leadership & DevelopmentDevelop and align strategic direction for customer content, innovations and promotion with corporate messaging, customer marketing, regional and market unit priorities and key audiences. Driving the best practices and innovations across traditional, digital and social media content and channels to drive market impact and humanize the brand. Key contributing factors for success include external partnerships with media, thought leaders and market influencers and internal SAP partnerships with customer marketing, global and regional marketing, events, branding, communications and media.Technology InnovationDeveloped innovative tools to extend the frequency and reach of customer content to drive impact with marketing audiences, support sales and drive market perception. Two key innovations that have changed the way we gather, consume and promote customer content are:SAP Customer Journey app, available on iTunes, maps the experience of a customer from their business segment and focus, challenges, successes, engagement, on-going relationship and vision that fosters the continuing organic growth of the SAP partnership. Connecting customer experiences, cross business intersections and enabling one click social sharing. Leveraged 500+ transformative customers, drive adoption for 30,000 SAP field sales employees and executives.Espresso, proprietary SAP application, modularizes, tags, catalogs and manages unstructured customer content. Enables employees and partners to access, search, and consume customer content, while providing automated tools and social sharing capability. Revolutionized access to reusable customer content for 60,000 employees and SAP Partners.