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As a DATA Center Technology Sales Specialist at NTT DATA, you'll be on the front line, driving our growth by identifying new opportunities and presenting client-centric DATA center solutions. You'll work hand-in-hand with the Client Management team to pursue and land qualified leads, ensuring our clients understand the value propositions, partner configurations, and cost structures that meet their unique needs. As a Sales Specialist, you are also responsible for generating your own pipeline and opportunities within your assigned client base. A large part of your day will involve engaging with clients at various levels, from key stakeholders to senior leadership, to uncover and address their business challenges. You'll collaborate with internal subject matter experts and pre-sales architects to design the best solutions, delivering compelling presentations and conducting workshops that showcase our offerings. You'll also navigate through technological conceptual challenges and ensure our solutions are both current and competitive. Developing strong, collaborative relationships is key. You'll spend time building and nurturing relationships with existing accounts while strategically penetrating new markets. By maintaining a deep understanding of our solutions and those of our technology partners, you'll tailor recommendations to align perfectly with client needs. You'll also drive the sales process by preparing and executing comprehensive account and opportunity plans, ensuring you meet or exceed your sales targets. Your expertise doesn't stop at selling; you'll support the wider territory sales plan and contribute to our go-to-market strategy. You'll address client risks, using your business acumen to provide insights that safeguard our clients' credibility, and ensure all work and proposals are tracked and managed efficiently. Keeping an eye on the competitive landscape and adapting quickly to new missions or urgent deadlines will be part of your dynamic role at NTT DATA.
Job Responsibility
Maintains domain and industry subject matter expertise in the DATA Center technology domain or solutions set
Supports the closure of DATA Center sales based on technology domain knowledge
Addresses the technology conceptual challenges during the sales process
Maintains 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
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 and 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 secures 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 works 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
Develops and maintains clear account plans for appropriate clients and targets
Identifies, assesses and highlights client risks that could prove detrimental to the client’s organization and credibility
Partners with internal teams to ensure the scope of work and proposals are tracked and managed
Uses sales methodologies and tools such as opportunity plans, and account plans to drive the sales process
Develops and implements 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
Requirements
2–3 years of experience in Technology sales / IT services sales / infrastructure sales
Exposure to: Data center solution sales
Hybrid cloud / private cloud environment
Seasoned demonstrated success in achieving and exceeding sales and financial goals
Seasoned in developing and encouraging meaningful customer relationships up to senior leadership level
Seasoned proficiency in delivering engaging sales presentations
Seasoned proficiency in team selling approach
Seasoned knowledge of competitors and ability to apply competing successful sales strategies
Ability to define sales strategy coupled with seasoned sales solution capabilities
Client-centric approach with ability to understand customer problems and find best-fit solutions
Close attention to maintaining up to date, accurate sales forecast and close plans
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in information technology/systems or sales or a related field
Seasoned sales experience in a technology or services environment
Seasoned understanding of IT Managed Services environment
Seasoned experience of solution-based selling with a proven track record of sales over-achievement
Seasoned experience in selling complex DATA center technology solutions and services to senior level clients
Seasoned experience in resolving a wide range of issues in creative ways to meet targets and objectives
Seasoned experience in networking with senior internal and external people in the specialist area of expertise