About the Role
The Senior AI Large Deal Seller leads the origination, shaping, and closure of strategic AI transformation opportunities, combining strong AI market knowledge, C-level engagement, and large-deal leadership.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic AI pursuits from opportunity development through negotiation and closure.
- Create deal plans, win strategies, stakeholder maps, competitive positioning, business cases, and close plans.
- Lead client discussions on AI-enabled value creation, automation, productivity, and measurable outcomes.
- Structure outcome-based, value-sharing, gainshare, risk-sharing, and MVP-to-scale commercial models.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary pursuit teams and ensure alignment across solution, delivery, pricing, governance, and risk.
- Build trusted relationships with C-level executives and senior business, technology, finance, procurement, and operations stakeholders.
- Collaborate with technology partners to strengthen propositions and routes to market.
- Mentor junior sellers and develop reusable pursuit and commercial assets.
- Ensure responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, compliance, and human oversight are embedded in opportunities.
Requirements
- 10+ years in enterprise, large-deal, strategic account, consulting, professional services, or technology transformation sales.
- 5+ years selling or shaping AI, data, analytics, cloud, automation, managed services, or digital transformation.
- 3+ years leading complex, multi-stakeholder pursuits, ideally exceeding $25 million.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise AI, Generative AI, AI agents, data readiness, adoption, responsible AI, and business value.
- Experience with business cases, pricing, negotiations, and value- or outcome-based commercial models.
- Proven C-level engagement and strong commercial acumen across finance, legal, procurement, contracting, and delivery.
- Fluency in German and English.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Skills
- Sales governance
- Price-to-win
- Proposals
- Executive deal reviews
- Financial services industry experience
- Insurance industry experience
- Manufacturing industry experience
- Automotive industry experience
- Healthcare industry experience
- Life sciences industry experience
- Public sector industry experience
- Generative AI understanding
- Agentic AI understanding
- Data platforms understanding
- Cloud understanding
- Automation understanding
- AI-enabled managed services understanding
- Strong executive presence
- Strong communication skills
- Strong negotiation skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Resilience
- Ownership
Location
- Remote work
- Mobile working from other EU countries
Work Type
- Full-time
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years in sales
- 5+ years in AI/data/cloud/automation/digital transformation sales
- 3+ years leading complex pursuits
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Flexible working hours with a flexitime arrangement
- Business travel time is considered working time
- 30 days of annual leave
- December 24 and December 31 as additional non-working days
- Option to take a sabbatical of up to one year
- Remote work and mobile working from other EU countries
- Attractive benefits and compensation optimisation programmes
- Occupational pension scheme
- JobRad bike leasing
- Public transport pass
- Exclusive discounts through Corporate Benefits
- Comprehensive health and preventive care benefits
- Extended continued remuneration in the event of illness
- Occupational health services
- Worldwide accident insurance covering both work-related and leisure-time accidents
- Family support services
About the Company
- NTT DATA is a trusted global innovator of business and technology services, helping clients innovate, optimize, and transform for success.
- We strive to hire exceptional, innovative, and passionate individuals who want to grow with us.
- If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity is an essential part of our success and our corporate culture.
- Free from prejudice regarding gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnic or social background, religion, or disability, we look forward to getting to know you.
- Applicants with severe disabilities will be given preference if equally qualified.
