About the Role
Partner with the sales team through the full customer contract lifecycle to identify new opportunities and expand client awareness of division propositions and solutions.
Responsibilities
- Use research and analysis to inform the evolution of the portfolio vision, requirements, and roadmap.
- Identify, evaluate, and select solution components to meet customer needs.
- Deconstruct, scope, and articulate solution design work packages.
- Set a vision and execute a roadmap for solution evolution to meet proposition growth targets.
- Create compelling solutions integrating people, process, technology, and data security.
- Shape and lead proposition/client group solution bids, driving market and cost competitiveness.
- Influence and challenge stakeholders to achieve optimal solutions.
- Manage and mitigate risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and opportunities (RADIO).
- Ensure solutions are assured, agreed, and signed off through appropriate governance processes.
- Articulate the overall solution, written and verbally, to senior stakeholders.
- Manage the sales architecture team to produce high-quality solution artifacts.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and excellence in solutioning.
Requirements
- Experience in the full customer contract lifecycle (pre-sales, bid, account management).
- Experience in research and analysis of stakeholders, competitors, markets, demographics, locations, people, processes, and technology.
- Experience in identifying, evaluating, and selecting solution components.
- Experience in deconstructing, scoping, and articulating solution design work packages.
- Experience in setting a vision and executing a roadmap for solution evolution.
- Experience in creating compelling solutions integrating people, process, technology, and data security.
- Experience in shaping and leading proposition/client group solution bids.
- Experience in influencing and challenging internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience in managing and mitigating risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and opportunities (RADIO).
- Experience in ensuring solutions are assured, agreed, and signed off through appropriate governance processes.
- Experience in articulating the overall solution, written and verbally, to senior level stakeholders.
- Experience in managing a sales architecture team.
- Experience in fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence in solutioning.
Skills
- Solution design
- Sales enablement
- Bid management
- Account management
- Market analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Risk management
- Communication (written and verbal)
- Team management
Location
- London, United Kingdom
Work Type
- Full-time
- Fixed-term
