The Sr. Strategic Value Advisory Services Manager leads value-focused engagements, collaborates with account teams, develops business cases, and communicates findings to executives, driving customer confidence and decision-making.
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
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🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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The Impact of a Sr. Strategic Value Advisory Services Manager at Coupa:
The Sr. Strategic Value Advisory Services Manager is a customer-facing strategic consultant who partners with account executives and solution advisory to lead value-focused engagements for large enterprise and upper–mid-market organizations (typically F2000). You will work across the sales lifecycle—from early demand generation through deep discovery, business case development, executive alignment, and late-stage deal execution.
In this role, you will help customers articulate their current-state challenges, identify improvement opportunities, and translate those opportunities into quantified outcomes tied to Coupa’s capabilities. You will guide account teams with structured analysis, compelling storytelling, and a value-first lens that accelerates customer confidence and decision-making.
This is an individual contributor role requiring strong analytical skills, executive communication, and the ability to navigate ambiguous environments with creativity and independence.
What You'll Do:
- Partner with account teams (AEs, Solution Advisory) throughout the sales lifecycle to shape deal strategy, align on value hypotheses, and create compelling commercial narratives.
- Lead high-quality discovery with senior stakeholders across sourcing, procurement, supply chain, finance, and treasury to understand strategic objectives, current processes, pain points, and organizational constraints.
- Develop business cases and ROI models that synthesize complex datasets, benchmark performance, and quantify achievable outcomes across improved savings rates, increased spend capture, process efficiencies, and working capital optimization.
- Create and deliver executive-level presentations that clearly communicate findings, recommendations, and target metrics with a strong storytelling arc.
- Guide account teams as a deal captain, ensuring value is consistently positioned and integrated throughout the sales strategy.
- Support territory and account planning, identifying areas where value-led engagement can unlock pipeline opportunities.
- Collaborate with peers across Value Advisory, contributing reusable assets, frameworks, and insights.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- 10+ years of experience in management consulting, business transformation, finance/supply chain, procurement, or practitioner roles within enterprise environments.
- Experience in SaaS sales, pre-sales, or services delivery preferred.
- Experience engaging directly with senior business stakeholders in value-oriented or analytical discussions.
- Background supporting or participating in organizational change or transformation initiatives strongly beneficial.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to simplify complex data and translate it into meaningful executive insights.
- Confident communicator equipped to present findings, challenge assumptions, and facilitate value-based conversations.
- Creative problem solver, capable of tailoring structured frameworks to unique customer situations.
- Storytelling mindset, using past experiences and transformation examples to build trust.
- Self-starter comfortable navigating ambiguity and independently developing business cases or value frameworks.
- Soft-selling capability grounded in inquiry, logic, and outcome-driven conversations.
- BA/BS required.
- MBA (Finance, Supply Chain, or related discipline) preferred.
- Familiarity with SaaS platforms and cloud delivery models.
- Understanding of procurement, finance, supply chain, or spend management domains
- Proficiency in building business cases (Excel/analytics tools).
- Experience with CRM and sales engagement tools (SFDC, Sigma, Clari, etc.).
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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Excel
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