Solutions Sales Manager Job Description
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Solutions Sales Manager Job Description
- Delivers planned business results of the assigned areas’ public sector market business plans for all ‘lines of business’
- Identifies, develops, and manages strategic regional third party relationships to facilitate public sector business growth, including trade associations, marketing consultants, subcontractors
- Lead independent sales campaigns into existing customer accounts focused on delivering the value of Advanced Solutions
- Identify advanced solution opportunities that predominately have non-IT sponsorship
- Network-Create relationships with key stakeholders and maintain them for future opportunities
- Remain flexible to cover additional markets within the Region on a part time basis
- Own Control Solutions Orders operating plan for the assigned territory while meeting quarterly and annual orders commitment and sales metrics such as cash, as sold margins and receivables
- Build customer relationships with the assigned customer for sales
- Maintain knowledge of market trends, competitive actions, product needs, and customer base
- Demonstrate commercial and technical expertise in specific market and lead opportunity planning
- Able to transcend between technical and business audiences
- Comfortable speaking to medium audiences, 50+ of a mixed technical/business background
- Excellent written communication skills to develop white papers and presentation materials
- Excellent oral communications skills to communicate and present business/technical topics
- Communicate market and product requirements, both orally and in writing to product management, product development, and product marketing
- At least 5 years either direct selling, channel development, technically supporting or marketing of archiving and/or search indexing solutions
Solutions Sales Manager Job Description
- Drive Commitments, Orders, Sales and Contribution Margin (CM) growth
- Be responsible for Salesforce.com (SFDC) data accuracy
- Partner with Account Managers to identify, enter, and maintain the accuracy of outages, opportunities, and campaigns via SFDC
- Consolidate feedback in efforts to provide clear, consistent, and strategic Generator input to support Blueprint, SII, and other critical region planning initiatives
- Drive targeting efforts and build region-wide awareness for Generator campaigns
- Team up with Account Management and Commercial Operations on complex, multi-offering transactions that may include Parts, Repairs, Outage Services, Performance Upgrades, Digital Solutions and long term Service Agreements (SA)
- Lead deal strategy development and reviews with Sales and Commercial Operations Team, Customer Service Leaders (CSL), Customer Fulfillment Managers (CFM), Global Operations and other functional groups as required
- Coordinate with Account Managers, Repair Sales Managers, Parts Sales Managers, CSL/CFM and engineering to enhance outage planning process thus expanding outage scopes
- Maintain knowledge of market trends, customer strategy / profile / requirements including outage schedules and competitor actions
- Maintain on-going customer relationships and ensure customer satisfaction
- Regular Field engagement across the Region– at least 50% of time in field with customers, stakeholders and partners
- Attainment of sales and revenue targets for all Practices in the Region
- Effective partnering and communication with stakeholders in the Region and EMEA
- Ability to position the Practices’ solutions and to identify, define and drive potential new solutions with the RTMs
- Continuously develop and maintains technical and market expertise through training, certifications, conferences etc… Facilitate customer and partner documented enhancement requests to keep the product ahead of competition
- Disseminate business relevant lessons learned to training for inclusion in the company-wide knowledgebase and internal/external training courses
Solutions Sales Manager Job Description
- Work with Engineering, Product Line, and Marketing teams to develop new products and services for business growth
- Provide leadership & strategic direction for PWS business across Turkey& Southern Caspian
- Responsible for the achievement of Sales, Bookings and Gross Profit targets for the PWS Business Unit in Turkey& Southern Caspian
- Identify the market requirements and specifics, develop and execute the strategies and tactics for growth of orders and profitability
- Lead and support the PWS sales team by setting clear and measurable business objectives
- Identify the needs and profiles for people resources required to implement agreed sales initiatives
- Actively support the hiring process, participate in interviews, negotiate the compensation packages, provide justification for dismissal and resignations of designated people resources with the support of available HR team
- Identify the needs and actively support the process of skills and talents development within the designated team using available Performance excellence process and tools
- Maintain and regularly update business expectations within the designated region using President’s Operation Report and Sales & Operations Planning Processes together with the Sales team
- Sign and co-sign the Business contracts and transactions with customers on behalf of the company within the applicable rules and policies, including Delegation of Authority and Power of Attorney
- Significant experience within IT industry working in roles relevant to the requirements defined herein
- Bachelors’ degree and a minimum of 8 years’ software security sales experience
- Broad and deep understanding of the security development lifecycle
- Broad and deep understanding of the information security market
- Broad and deep understanding of the information security eco system
- Good experience on how to work together with account sales as an overlay role
Solutions Sales Manager Job Description
- Participate in customer development activities as trade shows, fairs, conferences aiming to promote the sale of products, solutions and services of designated region
- Continuously drive the improvement of customer safisfaction by understanding, communicating and executing solutions to their needs
- Cooperate closely with operations, order management, project execution and service teams to ensure the appropriate delivery of commitments to customer
- Outcome selling skills and a curiosity to understand business models, markets
- Our customers’ most important business outcomes and will partner fully with
- Bring deep outcome selling experience and skills to this
- Deliver commercial results for the Grid Automation portfolio (Protection Relays, Monitoring/Diagnosis and Systems/Services), including financial & market objectives, managing key commercial performance indicators such as order intake and margin, and customer satisfaction in the Eastern Africa region
- Deploy commercial strategy, including support in the process of tendering in the Eastern Africa area
- Participate in products events and coordinate with the relevant stakeholders internally and externally
- Use of standard Grid Automation tools such as but not limited to SPEAK, EM104 Terms and Condition
- Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation & Controls/Electronics/Electrical/Mechanical engineering
- Should possess sound knowledge on Gas Turbine & Steam Turbine Controls , DCS
- Knowledge on Mark Vie or equivalent products
- Knowledge on Rotating equipment
- Prior experience dealing with the Oil & Gas and Power Plant industries
- Strong interpersonal, customer and negotiation skills
Solutions Sales Manager Job Description
- Planning and directing the activities of Business Development Managers, and Account Managers, ensuring all Staff are motivated to attain predetermined sales targets
- Contributing to the setting of sales strategies and related sales and expense budgets
- Forming long term business partnerships in order to leverage revenue from the relationship and promote the organisation as a quality supplier with the aim of achieving "preferred" supplier status
- Recruiting, selecting and training sales staff
- Participate in and support wind trade shows, conferences, and other market development activities Remain flexible to cover additional markets within the Region on a part time basis
- Power Delivery and Power Utilization
- Motor, Transformer, and Switchgear Repairs
- Turnkey Substations, New and retrofit Drives and Controls, and Field Services
- Plan and implement sales strategies to maximize market share in the assigned territory
- Meet or exceed individual orders targets with focus on convertible orders and profitable growth
- Team player and ability to maintain relations with peers
- Strong client prospecting
- The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated track record in leading sales, business development, delivery and client growth activities in a professional services environment in the BFSI sector with a focus on new age digital technologies
- Dutch and English imperative
- First class sales acumen with strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills
- The role requires a dynamic, fast paced individual who is motivated by success and takes the responsibility of owning tasks and deliverables to completion and issues or problems to resolution