Senior Client Manager - Dubai

Al Rostamani Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Al Rostamani Communications, part of the Al Rostamani Group, seeks a Senior Client Manager to own strategic ICT accounts in the UAE. You will analyze client needs, articulate value, and drive revenue while expanding margins for ARC.

The role requires senior-level relationships, cross-functional leadership, and a proven track record in large ICT deals. Responsibilities include developing account strategies, aligning with sales objectives, negotiating with vendors, and guiding pre/post sales teams

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or related discipline required.
• MBA is a nice-to-have.
• Minimum 12 years of ICT sales experience.
• Must have worked for reputed ICT System Integrators in the UAE.
• Proven track record of closing large ICT solution orders.

Responsibilities

• Align with sales strategy and meet ARC objectives.
• Develop and execute account plans to grow profitable revenue.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver client solutions.
• Vulnerability analysis vs competitors to tailor proposals.
• Manage vendor relationships and negotiate terms with suppliers.
• Coordinate with senior sales leadership and project teams to promote products.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Presentation skills

Relationship building

Negotiation

Influencing

Results driven

Education

Engineering degree

MBA (advantage)

Job description

Job Description:

Every employee at Al Rostamani Group plays a role in making a real difference to the business and our customers. We care for our employees by offering them meaningful and purposeful work and an opportunity to grow, learn, contribute and succeed. Today, the Al Rostamani Group has come a long way since its birth in 1957. Our group has grown steadfastly with the guiding principles of Commitment, Care & Vision, alongside a strong sense of active involvement in the community. We are a well-diversified group, with a key presence in industries such as General Trading, Automobiles and Heavy Equipment, Travel, Foreign Exchange, Financial Services, Property Management, Construction, Infrastructure Development and Information Technology Services. Our Group employs approximately 2000 people from 41 different nationalities, which contributes to our multicultural and multi-national environment.

Al Rostamani Communications is a leading IT & Telecommunication Solutions Provider and Systems Integrator, offering Innovative, Integrated Technology Solutions and Professional Services to customers in UAE and other GCC countries.

Job Purpose

The Senior Client Manager has account responsibility and their key focus is around analysing the client’s situation and business requirements through awareness, empathy and good questioning. They have the ability to influence clients to use ARC solutions through articulating value in the client’s terms. They take ownership of a range of larger and more strategic clients within the domestic market segments, by passionately advocating the client requirement, whilst keeping sight of the need to increase revenue and improve margins for ARC.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for aligning to the sales strategy ensuring ARC strategic objectives are met
• Accountable for creating turn-around solutions to ensure that sales plans are met irrespective of current situation by ensuring that sales procedures and policies as defined by the sales Sr. Management are implemented and followed
• Responsible to approach the management of his/her account in a systematic way by identifying the strategy they will use to develop and grow the account profitably
• Do a vulnerability analysis of ARC position in comparison to that of competitors and vendors, to ensure the client’s requirement is at the heart of our proposed solution
• Formulate and execute sales, marketing, and go-to-market strategies; Management of product, pricing, costing and profit margins
• Plan, develop and implement tactical promotions and integrated marketing programs for the targeted customer segments
• Account management, cross selling and up selling for the existing and new customers
• Market development, penetration in to the existing account and expansion of new accounts and market.
• Manage vendor relationship on target and quota
• Manage & Negotiate with vendors on product, pricing, marketing activities, technical support, sales rebate etc.
• Identify and develop partnership with new vendors to support continuous portfolio growth.
• Operation management including but not limited to inventory, vendor rebate, marketing funds, technical support, etc.
• Manage product life cycles, pre-sales architecting capability for large orders and operational issues
• Use ARC sales tools and methodology to effectively manage their accounts, opportunities, pipelines and forecast
• Build enduring relationships and display an understanding of the client industry, business environment and strategy to identify current and future opportunities for ARC
• Drive passionately for client satisfaction throughout the entire lifecycle of the clients’ buying process, by taking ownership of the co-ordination for the commercial agreement for each client. And aim to realize revenue and margin targets and exploit opportunities, whilst displaying notable client service orientation
• Coordinate with Head of Sales, Business Unit Managers, pre and post sales team and Project Managers to support marketing of their products and coordination with suppliers
• Any other additional tasks the line manager may give and is within the scope of work
  

Job Requirements

Qualifications

• A degree in Engineering or a related discipline. Engineering with MBA is an added advantage

Experience

• Minimum 12 years of relevant industry experience
• Hard core ICT Solutions (Infrastructure, Compute, Networking, UC, IT Security & Digital) sales experience preferred
• Must have worked for reputed ICT System Integrators in the UAE
• Must have track record of closing large ICT solution orders

Certification

• Should have relevant vendor certifications

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong IT technical & Industry knowledge preferred.
• Teamwork, Written, verbal communication & presentation skills.
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Excellent influencing skills
• Results Driven

This role is part of a talent pooling initiative to support current and upcoming project requirements.