Senior Sales Specialist

Key Responsibilities:

• Asserts subject matter expertise in multiple domains or solutions sets.
• Supports the closure of sales based on technology domain knowledge.
• Addresses the technology conceptual challenges during the sales process.
• Asserts a high level of relevant product and service knowledge to have meaningful conversations with potential and existing clients.
• Maintains awareness of the competitive landscape, market pricing, and strategy and how to penetrate a new market.
• Contributes to the knowledge base of the company's solutions and services within a practice area or service area by sharing best practices with internal teams, as well as client teams.
• Owns the client relationship and continuously build a professional relationship within assigned accounts.
• Works with relevant technology vendors and ensures a deep understanding of their solutions and how they can contribute to our own solutions set.
• Engages and interacts with clients to uncover and understand client business goals.
• Articulates the solution/deliverables that the client requires, as opposed to the products that they need to buy.
• Prepares and conducts client workshops and presentations and establishes relationships with multiple client stakeholders and secure deals with clients to achieve assigned sales quotas and targets.
• Uses understanding of the client’s business and depth of knowledge on the technology-specific solution to personalize the recommended solution in line with the client’s need.
• Identifies and acts on new sales opportunities within an account and work with the sales teams to drive them to closure.
• Pursues and lands qualified leads identified by the client managers and other lead generation sources.
• Executes on the sales strategy and supports the wider territory sales plan, defining own plan for the solution to ensure that sales target is achieved.
• Discovers, forecasts, and runs opportunities in the medium and long-term.
• Identifies, assesses and highlights client risks that could prove detrimental to the client’s organization and credibility.
• Supports the sales process and collaboratively work with sales teams, especially Client Managers, to successfully close the deal.
• Uses sales methodologies and tools such as opportunity plans, and account plans to drive the sales process.
• Develops and implements an opportunity plan, to provide regular check-ins with the primary point of contact and have an established process for getting buy-in from all stakeholders.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Advanced demonstrated success in achieving and exceeding sales and financial goals.
• Advanced in developing and encouraging meaningful customer relationships up to senior leadership level.
• Advanced proficiency in delivering engaging sales presentations.
• Advanced proficiency in team selling approach.
• Advanced knowledge of competitors and ability to apply competing successful sales strategies.
• Ability to define sales strategy coupled with seasoned sales solution capabilities.
• Client-centric approach with ability to understand customer problems and find best-fit solutions.
• Flexible to adapt quickly to short, new missions or urgent deadlines.
• Advanced negotiation abilities to craft solutions that are beneficial to customers, partners, and organization overall.
• Close attention to maintaining up to date, accurate sales forecast and close plans.
• Advanced business acumen.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in information technology/systems or sales or a related field.
• SPIN and / or Solution Selling certification(s) preferred.
• Relevant technology and vendor certification(s) preferred.

Required experience:

• Advanced sales experience in a technology or services environment.
• Advanced gained in an IT Managed Services environment.
• Advanced demonstrable experience of solution-based selling with a proven track record of sales over-achievement.
• Advanced demonstrable experience in selling complex cross technology solutions and services to C-Level clients.
• Advanced experience in resolving a wide range of issues in creative ways to meet targets and objectives.
• Advanced experience in networking with senior internal and external people in the specialist area of expertise.