Senior Cloud Infrastructure Client Partner

Job Title: Senior Cloud Infrastructure Client Partner

Company: NTT Germany AG & Co. KG

Location: Remote

Job Type: Full-time

About Us: NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Client Partner to join our team. As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Client Partner, you will be responsible for building and developing excellent stakeholder relationships with clients, fully understanding the client and the industry in which they operate. You will 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.

Key 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 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

Qualifications:

• 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)

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: Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA: NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.

Equal Opportunity Employer: NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us. Apply today.