Matt Francis

Vice President, Global Sales Readiness, Cloud ERP

San Anselmo, California, United States

About

As a go-to-market professional, I'm focused on aspects of cloud marketing strategy, sales enablement and all pillars of demand generation for B2B and SaaS solutions, business applications and managed services in support of overall enterprise growth. My experience includes a comprehensive approach to demand generation strategy and sales readiness, founded in solution, product, field and partner marketing, business development and business acceleration planning.

Experience

  • SAP (Full-time · 9 yrs 11 mos)
    • Vice President, Global Sales Readiness, Cloud ERP
      Aug 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

      Sales field readiness initiatives as an extension of cloud ERP go-to-market strategy, designed to support demand generation for SAP Business Suite (cloud ERP) that includes: value positioning in support of new market and customer positioning strategies for S/4HANA Cloud and associated SaaS offerings, AI and sustainability, business transformation, deal qualification, and objection handling - designed to differentiate our solutions and further qualify and advance opportunities.

    • Global Marketing Strategy & Demand Generation Lead, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
      Feb 2018 - Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Leading the global marketing strategy and demand generation efforts for SAP's HANA Enterprise Cloud, private managed cloud solution. Includes: product marketing, field enablement, social marketing, alliance partner marketing with MS Azure, AWS and GCP, and alignment with SAP cloud ERP and SaaS marketing strategy.

    • Marketing Leader, West Region
      Aug 2016 - Feb 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Oversee the field marketing and ABM plan and programming for SAP’s SaaS marketing strategy in support of solution, industry and account growth in the U.S. West market unit. Solutions: S/4HANA cloud ERP, IoT, Analytics, HR, CRM, Data analytics , Cloud application services.

  • National Consulting Marketing Leader & Central/West Field Marketing Leader at RSM
    May 2010 - Aug 2016 · 6 yrs 4 mos

    National Marketing Leader for RSM's Consulting line of business, Field Marketing Leader for Mid-West and West Regions Strategic marketing lead and go-to-market build for RSM's consulting line of business, primarily: Management Consulting, Performance Improvement, Tech Services (ERP, CRM, Cloud, IT Outsourcing), Risk and Compliance, Security & Privacy, Forensic Litigation, Valuation and Alliances marketing planning with Netsuite and Microsoft CRM.

  • Marketing Director, West Region at Grant Thornton
    Sep 2004 - Apr 2010 · 5 yrs 8 mos

    Directed the West region field marketing program strategy for consulting services, audit and tax.

  • Senior Manager Global Alliance Marketing at Deloitte Consulting
    Aug 2002 - Aug 2004 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Global alliance partner marketing lead for solutions designed and launched in collaboration with IBM, Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems. The solutions include: CRM, e-Commerce, IT Outsourcing, Technology Rightsizing and Web Services.

  • National Alliance Marketing Lead, Enterprise Portal Practice at PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS CONSULTING SERVICES AB
    Sep 1999 - Aug 2002 · 3 yrs

    National Alliance Marketing Lead - Enterprise Portal Solutions Practice. Regional Marketing Lead – High Tech, CPG and Retail industries (West, U.S) National alliance partner marketing strategy and planning for Enterprise Portal Solutions initiative. Included alliance partners for portal software, e-Learning, Security and Privacy.