About the Role
This is a specialized Sales Executive role focused on driving sales growth through new business development and account growth. It requires a deep understanding of stakeholder engagement and complex procurement processes, emphasizing relationship building and intricate industry knowledge to act as a trusted advisor.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end sales activities from pipeline development through to offer sign-off, targeting both new and existing accounts.
- Identify and qualify opportunities aligned with capability needs and procurement timelines, building a sustainable sales pipeline.
- Develop and execute value-driven win strategies and tailored value propositions addressing operational challenges and priorities.
- Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with key decision-makers, technical stakeholders, and procurement leads.
- Navigate complex stakeholder environments and Defence hierarchies, balancing competing priorities across multiple internal and external players.
- Lead business development campaigns within target Defence organisations and manage internal Atos stakeholders throughout the sales and bid lifecycle.
- Submit accurate sales forecasts and ensure CRM and Salesforce tools are consistently maintained.
- Supervise the pre-sales process, ensuring proposed solutions are compliant.
- Support development of tender responses and commercial proposals with a deep understanding of contract frameworks.
- Provide specialist knowledge in areas such as Application Modernisation, Cloud, Cyber, and Digital Transformation aligned to Defence modernisation initiatives.
- Ensure high levels of client satisfaction and long-term account growth by positioning Atos as a trusted partner.
Requirements
- Experience with public cloud platforms and good technology understanding.
- Experience in sales of solutions for application modernization.
- Knowledge about application modernization applications and application development - Subject matters expert in the field of application modernization.
- Ability to identify and qualify opportunities and propose solutions that align with customer needs.
- Experience in building and maintaining strong customer relationships, understanding their business challenges, and providing tailored solutions.
- Awareness of industry trends and the competitive landscape to effectively position modernization solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong analytical skills to identify customer pain points and propose proper solutions.
Skills
- Stakeholder Management
- Relationship building
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Sales planning
- Forecasting
- Proposal development
- Contract negotiation
- Business acumen
- Commercial awareness
- Analytical skills
- Presentation skills
- Negotiation skills
- Resilience
- Patience
- Application Modernisation
- Cloud platforms
- Cyber security
- Digital transformation technologies
- Public cloud platforms
- Technology understanding
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 67,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €10 billion, operating in 61 countries under two brands — Atos for services and Eviden for products.
- European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high performance computing, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries.
- Atos Group is the brand under which Atos SE (Societas Europaea) operates.
- Atos SE is listed on Euronext Paris.
- The purpose of Atos Group is to help design the future of the information space.
- Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence.
- Across the world, the Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.
