Senior Data Centre Technology Sales Specialist

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Assert subject matter expertise in the Data Center technology domain.
• 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 plan