Senior Sales Specialist

3 days ago


Sandton, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time

**Key purpose**:
Productivity and Collaboration Sales Specialist role is someone who has experience and understanding of the Modern Workplace, Employee Experience and Hybrid Working value propositions. This is a quota

A substantial amount of time will be spent on engaged selling or supporting the sales process in partnership with Client Managers. Contribute to the pre-sales process by working with pre-sales architects to create the best solution design for the client. Building and developing excellent stakeholder relationships with new and existing clients, whilst developing new business channels and territories will be a core focus of this role.

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- Domain and industry Subject Matter Expert
- Maintain Subject matter expertise in a technology domain, multiple domains or solutions set
- Support the closure of sales based on technology domain knowledge
- Address the technology conceptual challenges during the sales process
- Maintain a high level of relevant product and service knowledge to have meaningful conversations with potential and existing clients
- Maintain awareness of the competitive landscape, market pricing, and strategy and how to penetrate a new market
- Contribute to the knowledge base of company solutions and services within a practice area or service area by sharing best practices with internal teams, as well as client teams
- Work with relevant technology vendors and ensure a deep understanding of their solutions and how they can contribute to our own solutions set
- Uncover and understand client business goals
- Articulate the solution/deliverables that the client requires, as opposed to the products that they need to buy
- Articulate our value propositions throughout all steps in the sales process
- Conduct functional gap analysis and address business issues raised by clients
- Prepare and conduct client workshops and presentations
- Establish relationships with multiple client stakeholders and secure deals with clients to achieve assigned sales quotas and targets
- Use understanding of the clients business and depth of knowledge on the technology-specific solution to personalize the recommended solution in line with the clients need
- Be able to spot new sales opportunities within an account and work with the sales teams to drive them to closure
- Pursue and land qualified leads identified by the client managers and other lead generation sources
- Work alongside Client Managers to support the sales process, position technology solutions, and close the deal
- Support the wider territory sales plan and execute the sales strategy, and based on that define your own plan for your solution to achieve your sales targets
- Develop and maintain clear account plans for appropriate clients and targets
- Discover, forecast, and run opportunities in the medium and long-term.
- Scope and document solutions to meet customer requirements
- Identify, assess, and highlight client risks that could prove detrimental to the clients organization and credibility
- Collaboratively work with sales teams, especially Client Managers, to successfully close the deal
- Partner with internal teams to ensure the scope of work and proposals are tracked and managed
- Work closely with other in-territory counterparts and matrix teams to achieve the shared goal of growth
- Use company sales methodologies and tools such as target plans, opportunity plans, and account plans to drive the sales process
- Develop and implement 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

**Skills and attributes required**:

- Demonstrate success in achieving and exceeding sales and financial goals
- Mastery in developing and encouraging meaningful customer relationships up to C-level, particularly CFOs and CPOs
- Delivery of engaging sales presentations.
- Proficiency in team selling approach
- Ability to define sales strategy
- You will have a client-centric approach, able to understand customer problems and find best-fit solutions
- Flexible to adapt quickly to short, new missions or urgent deadlines
- Negotiation skills to craft solutions that are beneficial to customers, partners, and company overall
- Strong business acumen
- Client Engagement and management Skills
- Sales Solution Skills
- You are a phenomenal teammate, you know how to drive sales teams and collaborate with them

**Qualifications and experience**:

- Solid sales experience in a technology or services environment
- Sound understanding of IT Managed Services environment
- Demonstrable experience of solution-based selling with a proven track record of sales over
- achievement
- Prior experience in selling complex solutions and services to C-Level clients
- Experience in resolving a wide range of issues in creative ways to meet targets and objectives
- Strong experience in networking with senior internal and external peopl



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