Senior Cloud Infrastructure Client Partner (m/w/d)

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Client Partner (m/w/d)
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A Senior Cloud Infrastructure Client Partner is a quota-bearing sales persona and working with services teams to identify, develop, and close systems integration and Cloud Infrastructure Managed Service and outsourcing deals. As a Senior Client Partner focused on cloud infrastructure managed services, it is critical to be a services expert and be recognised as the client's trusted cloud infrastructure managed services advisor. The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Client Partner will apply consulting led sales skills and engage and close opportunities with decision-makers. They work directly with clients at a variety of levels as well as other internal sales expert teams such as Client Managers and pre-sales services-type architects and post the sale; the delivery teams that will manage the client's outsourced solution. Deals often involve alignment on business outcome led multi-product/multi-vendor Cloud Infrastructure solutions with services. They 'champion' the delivery teams' understanding of the client's solution requirements, and initiates improvement programs ensuring that the client remains committed to our solutions which leads to more sales opportunities.
Building and developing excellent stakeholder relationships with clients, fully understanding the client and the industry in which they operate will be a core focus of this role. The focus will remain on converting the client to a managed services client resulting in multi-year renewals; deals may involve a long sales cycle.
A substantial amount of time will be spent on client engagement and engaged selling, but also liaising with internal teams to make sure the client's needs are attended to. They are also the initial escalation point in removing challenges to drive right outcomes for services opportunities to closure.
As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Client Partner, you will have the opportunity to partner with some of the biggest global organisations and helping them convert to new business models.
What you'll be doing

Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Create demand and selling cloud infrastructure managed services solutions -
Create demand by assisting clients to identify and qualify current needs and effectively articulate how NTT can add value through its cloud infrastructure services and solutions offering
Responsible for addressing the objections that a client may pose in moving to a cloud infrastructure managed services solution
Appropriately allocate and decides sales time between assigned clients and new prospect opportunities; yet ensure focus remains on the top clients/prospects and balance opportunity size with likely outcomes

Sales partnership -
The success of the services agenda and successful sales will rely on successful partnership with others; this will include regional leads and services teams to work on the best outcome for the client
Network with partners and/ or vendors to drive select deals through vendor-based opportunities
Network with broader organisation such as the Offer Management, Commercial Architecture and Delivery teams to promote and support high-value services opportunities
Directs regional sales governance processes and Deal Clinics to profile opportunities

Managed Services industry trusted advisor -
Responsible for building deep and long-term relationships with client leaders in a Managed Services opportunity and execute a competitive win strategy through understanding the client's business requirements and competitive landscape
Directs the maintenance of a high level of relevant service knowledge to have meaningful conversations with clients; including the industry that the client operates in
Creates the knowledge base of NTT Ltd.'s services solutions within a services practice by sharing best practices with internal teams as well as client teams; ensuring that internal teams are aware of typical client challenges

Deal construct -
Directs the build and supports commercial solutions for Managed Services solutions and design deals that meet client's needs and ensure win/win solutions for both client and NTT
Responsible for constructing the managed services deal including the commercial modelling, negotiate contractual terms, mitigate legal risk and obstacles, and move the proposal to close to meet assigned quota

Drive the sales process -
Accountable for managing a pipeline of opportunities and creating and documenting a shared strategy to meet sales target such as net new customer pursuit plans to land new logos, activities to achieve client satisfaction, minimize churn, cross-sell, upsell, revenue, and margin goals
Work across multiple sales teams and commercial architects to successfully position the service and see the opportunity through to closure
Works across multiple internal teams to ensure scope of work and proposals are tracked, managed and delivered on time
Creates and consults on the implementation of 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
Responsible for ensuring data is accurate based on sales reporting standards to provide data-driven insights
Consults on the negotiation of deals with clients and lead the internal account management team to enable conclusion of services deals
Consults on the knowledge base of NTT's solutions and services by sharing best practices, industry and technology trends with internal stakeholders and clients
Participate in regional reporting cadence as it relates to regional performance and major deal reviews

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:
Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure principles and products
Strong understanding of and the ability to position NTT's services offerings that may span multiple technology domains across Cloud Infrastructure Managed Services, Support Services, Consulting Services and Technical Services
Understanding how networking works in a cloud environment to enable the design of effective solutions
Strong understanding of platform delivered services and how to articulate the value of standardised, centralised and optimised services.
Conversant with a business outcome led approach to sales
Proficiency in working with major cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and others
Strong understanding of broader IT infrastructure components, such as servers, storage, virtualization, and data centres
Strong understanding of financial statements and metrics, including revenue, expense control, and growth relative to market in order to hold strategic client conversations.
Have the legal knowledge to discuss contracting with the client and understand how to position terms as a value exchange
Strong understand each team member's skills and knowledge and coach team members to drive team effectiveness
Client-centricity coupled with problem solving.
A comprehensive understanding of Cloud Infrastructure technologies and an awareness of IoT concepts and how they impact Cloud infrastructure design
Strong business acumen and negotiation skills to craft solutions that are beneficial to NTT and the client
Ability to pro-actively and independently identify and qualify opportunities; an entrepreneurial mindset if key
Natural team player - ability to coordinate and liaise with delivery teams across multiple business areas
Quick learner to understand any new solutions that are ready to take to market

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
Bachelor's degree in a Technical or Sales field
Negotiation skill methodologies such as Scotworks
Solution selling skills
Desired certifications (any one or more) - Azure (AZ900 - Azure Fundamentals), AWS (AWS Cloud Practitioner), VMWare (VTSP or VTSP for AWS/Azure), ITIL (Version 3 or Later)

Required Experience:
Demonstrated impressive track record of managed services solutions to large enterprise accounts. These typically involve selling complex solutions and services to the C-suite in large enterprise accounts
Proof of structuring large, multi-year profitable contracts
Seasoned ability of building strong relationships with clients across all levels
Seasoned experience of networking with senior internal and external people in the specialist area of expertise
Experience in managing the entire sales process, contracting process and legal implications of a deal
Seasoned sales, client engagement and business development experience with requisite understanding of relevant markets and market penetration strategies

Workplace type:
Hybrid Working
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