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The Commercial Architect role at NTT DATA involves leading commercial engagements, optimizing client solutions, and ensuring profitability through detailed financial analysis and risk management. The ideal candidate will have seasoned experience in pricing models, negotiation, and vendor management, along with strong analytical and communication skills.
Job Responsibility:
Provides recommendations and reviews the pricing and costing of deals to ensure maximum benefit and minimum risk to the organization and prepares the commercial parts of sales proposals for submission to clients
Builds and compiles pricing models for specific proposals and provides input into the development of standardized pricing models
Provides a commercial summary, benefits, internal margin sharing, financial options and assumptions to be consolidated into the client’s template
Presents key pricing assumptions and risks for sign-off at relevant levels, in line with the authority matrix
Engages with and leverages off relationships between the organization and vendors and/or subcontractors and strategic alliances, including the Legal Team during the conception, construction, and review of client proposals, soliciting information, and escalating queries
Ensures that deal profitability is not eroded over time by calculating the long-term profit of deals, evaluating and concluding on foreign currency issues and the impacts of these both financially and contractually
Analyses pricing impacts on cash flow for the client and take responsibility for building pricing profiles
Provides input to process/business requirements development
Manages commercial and contract risks associated with the client agreement to protect the organization's profitability and legal exposure
Prepares contract and financial budgets, reports and summaries, as require, including profitability and cashflow analysis
Supports accurate and timely billing for services provided under the contract
Requirements:
Good understanding of the local operating, commercial and general business conditions
Seasoned negotiation skills with lateral thinking ability
Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills
Good business and commercial acumen coupled with an analytical mind
Ability to work under pressure without compromising quality and accuracy
Solid team skills, particularly engaging with the team to continuously develop own expertise
Good communication skills, especially related to facilitation, documentation, and reporting
Good Microsoft Office skills (Excel/Word/PowerPoint)
Highly numerate and display high levels of integrity
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Administration or Finance or a related field
Seasoned experience working within a Commercial or similar field, preferably within a global IT services organization
Seasoned experience working with pricing assumptions and developing pricing models
Seasoned demonstrated experience in deal structuring, pricing review, and negotiation
Seasoned experience working with vendors and/or suppliers