Senior Manager - Client Services - MFGS

Infosys; Stuttgart; On-site; EUR 194,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Infosys in Basel is seeking a Senior Manager – Client Services to lead sales efforts across Europe, focusing on IT services for Life Services industries. You will drive client introductions, develop account plans, and lead pursuit teams to close deals while maintaining value delivery and client satisfaction.

You will mentor the IBU/account team, navigate client drivers, defend win prices, and manage MSAs/SOWs, ensuring timely collections and strong relationships across internal units and client

Qualifications

• Understanding of outsourcing business and client value in IT services.
• Ability to identify buyer needs, build business cases and articulate value.
• Strong negotiation and deal-closure capabilities within multi-stakeholder environments.

Responsibilities

• Market development and prospecting to identify buyers and tailor offerings.
• Identify deal types within accounts to increase Infosys revenue and market share.
• Lead pursuit teams, coach proposal development and drive closure with client.
• Facilitate contracting and MSAs, ensuring risk is managed and closure is quick.
• Develop and execute account plans with stakeholders to grow the account.
• Mine accounts by securing meetings, setting agendas, and positioning Infosys competitively.
• Oversee account operations including SOWs/Contracts and AR collections.
• Maintain strong client relationships and manage escalations to protect satisfaction and growth.

Skills

Client relations

Sales leadership

Negotiation

Industry knowledge

Job description

Role Information

Role: Engagement Senior Manager

Role Designation: Senior Manager / Senior Manager – Client Services

Career Stream: Global Markets

Career Sub Stream: Client Services

Reports to: Group Senior Manager - Client Services

Billable Role (Y/N):

Supervises: Associate Business Development Manager/ Associate Senior Manager -- Client Services/ Associate Sales Manager

Billable Utilization:

NA

Financial Size (Revenue/ Budget/Span): ~ $80M per year across small, medium and large accounts.

Incumbency (Single/ Multiple): Multiple

Team Size & Dispersion (Direct & Indirect reports, Single/ Multiple locations): Number of Direct reports : 1 AEM and 1 EM. Likely to expand in future

Location (Onsite/ Offshore): Basel, Switzerland

Operating Network (Internal): Group Senior Manager - Client Services, Associate Senior Manager - Client Services/ Business Development Associate , All HBUs, IBU delivery, Finance, Legal, HR, CCD, IS, UPAMs, GEMs, DHs, IBU Heads, and NBD team.

Operating Network (External): Clients (CXOs, Business Leadership, IT Leadership and below, Procurement office, Client Audit & compliance), Alliance partners, and other contractors (direct competitors, other companies managing PMO, independent contractors etc.)

About the Role

1Senior Manager / Senior Manager – Client ServicesWe are looking for a Senior Sales professional in our Client Services Group in Basel. Experience in serving clients in Europe in IT Services area is a must-have experience. Our focus is Services accounts; with specific focus on Life Services Industry. Experience working with any one or more of these industry segments will be preferred.

Provide client introductions, customer context to internal teams. Navigate account to identify varied kinds of deals; form and lead pursuit teams, recommend & defend the win price, understand client drivers and competitor moves, interface with client on expectations, develop account plan, review and follow it. Drive MSA / SOWs / payments (AR), resolve delivery escalations and complaints, mentor IBU account team with an objective of demonstrating business value to the client. Maintaining the Infosys price premium, enhancing client satisfaction and growing the account as per the account plan within the assigned account.

Areas of Responsibility

• Market Development and Prospecting The Senior Manager – Client Services analyses the current accounts and target prospects to identify right set of Buyers, their buying patterns and help tailor offerings, solutions for specific industry segment, account. S/He is responsible for reaching out to identified target Buyers through multiple levers, such as Cold-calling, partnerships, events
• Opportunity Identification and Qualification The Senior Manager – Client Services will navigate the account to identify varied kinds of deals in the account in order to increase Infosys' revenue and market share.
• Proposal Development, Negotiation and Closure The Senior Manager – Client Services will form pursuit team across Infosys internal units / external partners if needed. S/He positions client-facing team with client, explain client context, coach the pursuit team, suggest win price and drive this among various BUs based on competitive intelligence, future potential, positioning with client. S/He sets up and facilitates proposal-coaching sessions between client and pursuit team's technical / domain experts and drives the proposal to closure.
• Contracting and MSA The Senior Manager – Client Services facilitates the discussion between Client and Infosys teams involved in contracting (Legal, Data Privacy..), and acts as the point-of-escalation if needed, in order to ensure quick closure of the contract with acceptable level of risk to Infosys.
• Account Planning and Review The Senior Manager – Client Services develops the Account Plan in conjunction with the other stakeholders (Service line/HBU mix, revenues, profitability. S/He will develop relationship map, and market share analysis. S/He communicates and executes as per the A/c plan; and conducts periodic review of the plan with higher Management in Infosys in order to grow in the Account as per plan.
• Account Mining The Senior Manager – Client Services identifies the right contacts within the client organization, secures meetings with the clients appropriately; sets appropriate agenda (client context, pain points, industry / competitive context, Infosys value proposition). S/He anchors meetings and closes any opportunities generated. S/He reviews meeting material in order to grow the account by positioning Infosys strategically and as an existing trusted partner.
• Account Operations The Senior Manager – Client Services signs off on SOWs / Contracts and follows up with the client to sign off on the SOWS. S/He is responsible for Collections of AR.
• Relationship Management The Senior Manager – Client Services handles customer complaints about project executions across IBU delivery and HBUs, as well as negotiates on MSAs and SOWs (which the Commercial Senior Manager leads). S/He identifies and recommends the right Infosys executives (starting with Segment Heads) with whom the client can connect; sets up meetings and sets the right expectations. S/He sets up periodic reviews with important customer stakeholders as per the pre‑agreed format.

Knowledge, Skills Required For The Role

Knowledge: Knowledge of outsourcing business, cost & revenue drivers for an IT organization, Business case creation, Financial ratios and analyses (IRR, NPV, ROCE etc.), Statistical analyses (regression, correlation, mean, median, mode, frequency distributions), and knowledge of legal & contracting issues.

Skills: Effective and structured communication skills (consultative skills combined with business case creation knowledge), conflict resolution / consensus building skills within Infosys as well as with partners / clients. Problem solving skills, negotiation skills, and commercial acumen. Identification of the political landscape, leadership skills, presentation skills and relationship-building skills (a good sense of humor is an advantage).