Senior Client Manager

NTT DATA, Inc.; Diegem; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

NTT DATA, Inc. is seeking a senior Sales leader to own key accounts, drive revenue, and manage relationships with C-level stakeholders across Networking, Collaboration, Data Centres, and Security domains.

You will own the sales process end-to-end, work with extended teams, and use our sales methodologies to secure profitable deals, while aiming to minimize churn and maximize client value. This hybrid role is based in Belgium.

Qualifications

• Impressive track record of selling solutions and managing enterprise accounts across multiple technology domains.
• Proven ability to structure large, multi-year profitable contracts.
• Strong relationships with clients across all levels.
• Experience networking with senior internal and external stakeholders in the specialist area.
• Experience managing the entire sales process, contracting process, and legal implications of a deal.
• MBA or similar post-graduate degree would be advantageous.

Responsabilités

• Take primary responsibility for the client and act as internal client owner within assigned accounts.
• Manage and grow relationships to drive expansion and renewals across all solutions and services.
• Lead the business conversations at C-level.
• Become the reliable point of contact to further strengthen relationships.
• Collaborate with extended sales teams to position solutions to closure.
• Maintain a pipeline of leads and use Salesforce.com to track opportunities.
• Engage in deal negotiations to protect existing business and win new deals.

Connaissances

Managed Services knowledge

Client ownership

Negotiation skills

Business acumen

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Storytelling / communication

English + Dutch/French fluency

Formation

MBA or post-graduate degree

Description du poste

Make an impact with NTT DATA

Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

Responsibilities

Client ownership and relationship builder

• Take primary responsibility for the client and act as internal client owner within assigned accounts
• Manage and grow relationships to drive expansion and renewals across all solutions and services
• Responsible for client solution penetration and education, account monitoring and portfolio reporting, and issue resolution ownership
• Lead the business conversations at C-level
• Become the reliable point of contact to further strengthen relationships

Client and industry expert

• Gain insights into client’s most urgent business problems or business opportunities while linking how our solutions and services offerings can add client business value
• Maintain a high level of the relevant industry, product, and service knowledge to have meaningful conversations and generally stay ahead of trends
• Collect and analyze data to learn more about the client and the industry in which they operate

Owning the sales process

• Collaboratively work with extended sales teams, especially Sales Specialists, pre‑sales architects, and commercial architects to successfully position the solution and/or service and see the opportunity through to closure
• Partner with internal teams to ensure the scope of work and proposals are tracked, managed, and delivered on time
• Work closely with other in territory counterparts and matrix teams to achieve the shared goal of growth; yet are held accountable for own targets
• Use NTT Ltd.’s sales methodologies and tools such as target plans, opportunity plans and account plans to support the sales process and data‑driven insights
• Develop and implement 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
• Maintain a pipeline of leads on Salesforce.com

Deal structuring

• Create comprehensive client business plans and engage in complex deal negotiation to build a stable, growing pipeline of current and future business opportunities.
• Engage in complex deal structuring and negotiation efforts designed to protect existing business and win new deals.
• Lead business negotiations for contracts ensuring deals are risk‑free and profitable
• Client retention and expansion
• Minimize churn and maximize retention in assigned accounts
• Land, adopt, expand, renew – Identify client business needs with a view to help shape solution development by the wider pursuit teams
• Actively search for expansion opportunities

Knowledge, Skills, And Attributes Required

• Good knowledge of Managed Services across domains such as Networking, Collaboration, Data Centres, Security and so on
• Client‑centricity coupled with problem solving
• Strong business acumen and negotiation skills to craft solutions that are beneficial to NTT and the client
• Ability to pro‑actively and independently identify and qualify opportunities; an entrepreneurial mindset is key
• Natural team player – ability to coordinate and liaise with delivery teams across multiple business areas
• Quick learner to understand any new solutions that are ready to take to market
• Customer value management and understanding profitability and ratios of clients
• A strategic future thinker who anticipates and considers external and internal factors with the ability to develop long‑term plans
• Ability to ask the right questions and tell great stories and have empathy with the client’s challenges. Superior communication skills are a given.
• Fluency in English complemented by native level of Dutch or French.

Required Experience

• You will need to demonstrate an impressive track record of selling solutions and managing enterprise accounts; especially Managed Services type accounts across multiple technology domains. These typically involve selling complex solutions and services to the C‑suite in large enterprise accounts.
• Proof of structuring large, multi‑year profitable contracts
• Demonstrate the ability to build strong relationships with clients across all levels
• Strong experience in networking with senior internal and external people in the specialist area of expertise
• Experience in managing the entire sales process, contracting process, and legal implications of a deal

Required Qualifications And Certifications

• A post‑graduate type degree such as an MBA or similar would be advantageous.

Workplace type

Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise‑scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start‑up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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