Cloud Marketing Manager, MEE
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Date: Mar 20, 2026
Location: Walldorf, Germany
Company: StressTest1
About the role:
We’re looking for a passionate, driven person who wants to join with us in defining the next generation of how people work. Successful “SuccessFactors” employees think big, are ambitious and have a true passion for the importance of human capital management and how to improve organisation productivity.
Our Cloud Marketing Manager for MEE (reporting to the Senior Director Regional Cloud Marketing based in the UK (and a member of the Head of SAP’s MEE On-premise marketing’s leadership team), will extend SAP’s Cloud technology market penetration by leading the strategy and marketing operations for the region in the execution of campaigns and pipeline development for SAP’s Cloud Technology developing and focusing on the target territory and defined key accounts (both client and prospective). This is a great opportunity to work with technology that transforms businesses and grow with SAP’s cloud business.
Responsibilities
- Define the integrated marketing plan (IMP) for Cloud to support the business goals and the 5 marketing pillars across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, CIS and Eastern Europe (SAP’s MEE region)
- Plan, allocate and monitor budget to support the local requirements and maximise impact on local markets.
- Define, allocate and track KPIs in order to be aligned and support the local business goals
- Align, integrate and leverage other regional lines of business and industry marketing programs into the overall Regional (MEE) Cloud marketing plan.
- Guide and manage joint marketing program and initiatives and set clear objectives and ensure good and aligned communication to generate response and to build awareness of SAP’s Cloud to strategic Line-of-Business (LOB) executives, such as Finance, IT, Strategy, Operations in addition to HR and installed base of SAP for up- and cross-selling
- Drive a cross-country and functional marketing team to meet the marketing and business objectives
- Engage and build strong working relationships across the cloud and on-premise organisations, reporting and ensure frequent communication/updates to the business stakeholders within the sales and marketing organisations, good management of all stakeholder expectations
- Orchestrate the business review for the Cloud marketing plan and provide transparency on local execution and country requirements
- Work closely with global solution and program marketing and other regional marketing teams to co-develop thought leadership content in the SaaS, IaaS, PaaS
- Identify synergy potential and share best practices of marketing programs and processes across the market units
- Provide strategic direction to support marketing challenges pro-actively and propose mitigation plan
- Host frequent calls and drive the agenda to communicate priorities, actions and results. Prepare presentation and consolidate facts and figures for strategic meetings, workshops and/or offsite meetings for the management team.
- Act as a single point of contact for all the MEE cloud related marketing requests
- Support the local field marketing organization to execute demand generation programs within the cloud organization and in alignment with the on-premise technology marketing team
- Monitor campaign metrics and results to identify key findings and ways to improve
- People Management, recruitment, coaching and development of the MEE cloud marketing team
Required Skills and Knowledge
- Several years of relevant technology marketing experience with a mix of enterprise and small, medium business experience working in both a direct and indirect go to market model. Working in a Cloud/SaaS company such as Salesforce.com, Oracle, Microsoft, Saba, Workday etc is a plus
- Experience in supporting a broad region with several multi-cultural aspects. Previous experience in supporting Easter Europe and Middle East in a marketing position is desired.
- People management experience, including hiring, performance reviews and development plans
- Strong presentation, project management and organisational skills
- Problem-solving attitude and accurate working style
- Creative flair mixed with ability to communicate SAP’s cloud strategy and message to a business audience
- Excellent grasp of multiple marketing disciplines (events, advertising, direct and on-line marketing, end-user, partner and alliance marketing, PR, telemarketing etc.)
- Multi-tasking is essential, with a proven ability to handle multiple assignments under tight deadlines
- Experience with PR, analyst relations and proven ability to leverage social media for business
- Ability able to work in a team-oriented (and matrix) environment with both local and remote colleagues
- Strategic, level headed and must be ‘hands on’ with marketing activities
- Eager and open for new challenges / tasks and resistant against constant change
- Experience in people management, building strong working relationships and trust with Sales and working with multiple ‘virtual’ teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (in German and English) with superb attention to detail, as well as excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills. Additional language such as Russian or other Easter European is an advantage.
- Willingness to regularly travel throughout the region, Europe and to the USA dependent upon operational requirements to travel between 40-60% annually
Traits/Behaviours/Style
- Creative lateral thinking
- Competitive
- Celebrates Achievement/ Praise/ Recognition
- Straight Forward
- High Energy
- High Emotional Intelligence
- Strong Integrity
- Diplomatic
- Results driven
- People orientated person and very good at relationship building
Company Core Values:
- Respect for the individual. No Jerks.
- Passion. Get a rush from what we do.
- Customer Success. Making heroes of our customers through results.
- Kaizen! Continuous improvement.
- Take Calculated Risks. Make mistakes, learn from them.
- Meritocracy. Pay for performance.
- Support. We don’t leave our wounded behind.
- Get it Done. Do whatever it (legally) takes.
- Transparency. Brutally honest communication.
- Measurable Results.
About SuccessFactors, an SAP Company
SuccessFactors is the leading provider of cloud-based Business Execution Software, and delivers business alignment, team execution, people performance, and learning management solutions to organizations of all sizes across more than 60 industries. With approximately 24 million cloud application subscribers seats globally, we strive to delight our customers by delivering innovative solutions, content and analytics, process expertise and best practices insights from serving our broad and diverse customer base. Today, we have more than 4,000 customers in more than 177countries using our application suite in 35 languages.
For the most comprehensive cloud computing portfolio in the market, SAP Cloud delivers mature business applications that drive collaboration across a business and connect to partners. There are over 20 applications and suites in the SAP Cloud designed to optimize and manage a company’s most critical assets – its people, money, customers, and suppliers. And for those who prefer to run their entire business on a single, cloud-based software solution, we offer a suite that will surely meet your needs.
Our primary focus is on delivering beautiful products for our customers. When our customers win, we win. And we pride ourselves in delivering the most powerful software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions on the market. As an SAP company, the possibilities for growth, innovation, and impact are endless!
Are you ready? You are in for an exciting ride. SuccessFactors is known for its innovation, extraordinary leadership, and high-energy culture. We hire high-performing people that want to make a difference.
We expect all of our talent to be leaders – no matter what your role. We challenge ourselves and each other to swing big and take risks every day. We move fast, but we care about how we work with each other. It’s one of our core values – “No Jerks!”
In turn, our commitment to all employees is to provide the opportunity for personal and professional growth, recognition for real impact, and meaningful rewards for delivering amazing results! Employees truly are the heart of our success.
See what it's like to work at SuccessFactors- check out this video! http://youtu.be/eZarfkN4hUo
Connect with us! Learn more about the culture at SuccessFactors, an SAP Company, see pics of our global offices, talk to recruiters, and see real-time job openings:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/successfactorscareers
Twitter: http://twitter.com/CareersAtSF
YouTube: http://youtube.com/CareersAtSF
Linkedin: Search "SuccessFactors Careers"
Match yourself and your network on Facebook and Linkedin to open jobs at SuccessFactors using our new SocialMatcher tool: http://jobs.successfactors.com/social-matcher/
Do you know someone that might be interested? We pay for external referrals! Refer them to careers@successfactors.com, including a resume and contact info, and you can make $1,000!
Requisition ID: 29916
We’re looking for a passionate, driven person who wants to join with us in defining the next generation of how people work. Successful “SuccessFactors” employees think big, are ambitious and have a true passion for the importance of human capital management and how to improve organisation productivity.
Our Cloud Marketing Manager for MEE (reporting to the Senior Director Regional Cloud Marketing based in the UK (and a member of the Head of SAP’s MEE On-premise marketing’s leadership team), will extend SAP’s Cloud technology market penetration by leading the strategy and marketing operations for the region in the execution of campaigns and pipeline development for SAP’s Cloud Technology developing and focusing on the target territory and defined key accounts (both client and prospective). This is a great opportunity to work with technology that transforms businesses and grow with SAP’s cloud business.
Responsibilities
- Define the integrated marketing plan (IMP) for Cloud to support the business goals and the 5 marketing pillars across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, CIS and Eastern Europe (SAP’s MEE region)
- Plan, allocate and monitor budget to support the local requirements and maximise impact on local markets.
- Define, allocate and track KPIs in order to be aligned and support the local business goals
- Align, integrate and leverage other regional lines of business and industry marketing programs into the overall Regional (MEE) Cloud marketing plan.
- Guide and manage joint marketing program and initiatives and set clear objectives and ensure good and aligned communication to generate response and to build awareness of SAP’s Cloud to strategic Line-of-Business (LOB) executives, such as Finance, IT, Strategy, Operations in addition to HR and installed base of SAP for up- and cross-selling
- Drive a cross-country and functional marketing team to meet the marketing and business objectives
- Engage and build strong working relationships across the cloud and on-premise organisations, reporting and ensure frequent communication/updates to the business stakeholders within the sales and marketing organisations, good management of all stakeholder expectations
- Orchestrate the business review for the Cloud marketing plan and provide transparency on local execution and country requirements
- Work closely with global solution and program marketing and other regional marketing teams to co-develop thought leadership content in the SaaS, IaaS, PaaS
- Identify synergy potential and share best practices of marketing programs and processes across the market units
- Provide strategic direction to support marketing challenges pro-actively and propose mitigation plan
- Host frequent calls and drive the agenda to communicate priorities, actions and results. Prepare presentation and consolidate facts and figures for strategic meetings, workshops and/or offsite meetings for the management team.
- Act as a single point of contact for all the MEE cloud related marketing requests
- Support the local field marketing organization to execute demand generation programs within the cloud organization and in alignment with the on-premise technology marketing team
- Monitor campaign metrics and results to identify key findings and ways to improve
- People Management, recruitment, coaching and development of the MEE cloud marketing team
Required Skills and Knowledge
- Several years of relevant technology marketing experience with a mix of enterprise and small, medium business experience working in both a direct and indirect go to market model. Working in a Cloud/SaaS company such as Salesforce.com, Oracle, Microsoft, Saba, Workday etc is a plus
- Experience in supporting a broad region with several multi-cultural aspects. Previous experience in supporting Easter Europe and Middle East in a marketing position is desired.
- People management experience, including hiring, performance reviews and development plans
- Strong presentation, project management and organisational skills
- Problem-solving attitude and accurate working style
- Creative flair mixed with ability to communicate SAP’s cloud strategy and message to a business audience
- Excellent grasp of multiple marketing disciplines (events, advertising, direct and on-line marketing, end-user, partner and alliance marketing, PR, telemarketing etc.)
- Multi-tasking is essential, with a proven ability to handle multiple assignments under tight deadlines
- Experience with PR, analyst relations and proven ability to leverage social media for business
- Ability able to work in a team-oriented (and matrix) environment with both local and remote colleagues
- Strategic, level headed and must be ‘hands on’ with marketing activities
- Eager and open for new challenges / tasks and resistant against constant change
- Experience in people management, building strong working relationships and trust with Sales and working with multiple ‘virtual’ teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (in German and English) with superb attention to detail, as well as excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills. Additional language such as Russian or other Easter European is an advantage.
- Willingness to regularly travel throughout the region, Europe and to the USA dependent upon operational requirements to travel between 40-60% annually
Traits/Behaviours/Style
- Creative lateral thinking
- Competitive
- Celebrates Achievement/ Praise/ Recognition
- Straight Forward
- High Energy
- High Emotional Intelligence
- Strong Integrity
- Diplomatic
- Results driven
- People orientated person and very good at relationship building
Company Core Values:
- Respect for the individual. No Jerks.
- Passion. Get a rush from what we do.
- Customer Success. Making heroes of our customers through results.
- Kaizen! Continuous improvement.
- Take Calculated Risks. Make mistakes, learn from them.
- Meritocracy. Pay for performance.
- Support. We don’t leave our wounded behind.
- Get it Done. Do whatever it (legally) takes.
- Transparency. Brutally honest communication.
- Measurable Results.
About SuccessFactors, an SAP Company
SuccessFactors is the leading provider of cloud-based Business Execution Software, and delivers business alignment, team execution, people performance, and learning management solutions to organizations of all sizes across more than 60 industries. With approximately 24 million cloud application subscribers seats globally, we strive to delight our customers by delivering innovative solutions, content and analytics, process expertise and best practices insights from serving our broad and diverse customer base. Today, we have more than 4,000 customers in more than 177countries using our application suite in 35 languages.
For the most comprehensive cloud computing portfolio in the market, SAP Cloud delivers mature business applications that drive collaboration across a business and connect to partners. There are over 20 applications and suites in the SAP Cloud designed to optimize and manage a company’s most critical assets – its people, money, customers, and suppliers. And for those who prefer to run their entire business on a single, cloud-based software solution, we offer a suite that will surely meet your needs.
Our primary focus is on delivering beautiful products for our customers. When our customers win, we win. And we pride ourselves in delivering the most powerful software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions on the market. As an SAP company, the possibilities for growth, innovation, and impact are endless!
Are you ready? You are in for an exciting ride. SuccessFactors is known for its innovation, extraordinary leadership, and high-energy culture. We hire high-performing people that want to make a difference.
We expect all of our talent to be leaders – no matter what your role. We challenge ourselves and each other to swing big and take risks every day. We move fast, but we care about how we work with each other. It’s one of our core values – “No Jerks!”
In turn, our commitment to all employees is to provide the opportunity for personal and professional growth, recognition for real impact, and meaningful rewards for delivering amazing results! Employees truly are the heart of our success.
See what it's like to work at SuccessFactors- check out this video! http://youtu.be/eZarfkN4hUo
Connect with us! Learn more about the culture at SuccessFactors, an SAP Company, see pics of our global offices, talk to recruiters, and see real-time job openings:
Facebook: http://facebook.com/successfactorscareers
Twitter: http://twitter.com/CareersAtSF
YouTube: http://youtube.com/CareersAtSF
Linkedin: Search "SuccessFactors Careers"
Match yourself and your network on Facebook and Linkedin to open jobs at SuccessFactors using our new SocialMatcher tool: http://jobs.successfactors.com/social-matcher/
Do you know someone that might be interested? We pay for external referrals! Refer them to careers@successfactors.com, including a resume and contact info, and you can make $1,000!
Requisition ID: 29916
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