AVP, EMEA, APAC and Japan Strategic Customer Engagements (Elevate)

Servicenow; London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as the AVP for Strategic Customer Engagements, where you will lead a dynamic team in driving significant revenue growth across diverse regions. This role emphasizes strategic thinking and complex negotiations, allowing you to showcase your consultative sales expertise. You will collaborate with senior leaders and engage with key accounts to maximize opportunities and accelerate the sales cycle. If you are passionate about transforming the enterprise sales landscape and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a substantial impact.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software industry with 10+ years in consultative sales.
• Proven leadership experience with focus on large deal strategies.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic transactions and revenue growth across EMEA, APAC, and Japan.
• Lead a team in deal strategy and complex negotiations.

Skills

Consultative Sales

Leadership

Negotiation

Presentation Skills

Analytical Skills

Coaching and Mentoring

Sales Methodologies

Organizational Skills

International Experience

Growth Mindset

Job description

Company Description

It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

Job Description

Reporting to the Global Vice President of Strategic Customer Engagements (Elevate), the AVP, EMEA, APAC and Japan Strategic Customer Engagements (Elevate) mission is to drive ServiceNow’s long-term revenue growth and profitability through larger and more strategic transactions across our Europe, Middle-East and Africa, Asia, Pacific, and Japan business. The AVP will lead a small team of in-region deal experts in driving end-to-end deal strategy, developing creative commercial structures, and leading complex negotiations for our most strategic deals.

The AVP, EMEA, APAC and Japan Strategic Customer Engagements (Elevate) will help define and follow a consistent programmatic approach to engaging with GEO presidents, regional sales organizations, and cross-functional deal execution teams to execute large, complex, and strategic deals. The role will utilize collaborative account planning, out-quarter pipeline development, opportunity review cadences, deal coaching and choreography, and thought leadership, to ensure relevant parties are involved in the right way and at the right time to maximize market opportunity and accelerate the sales cycle to close larger deals successfully.

The AVP, EMEA, APAC and Japan Strategic Customer Engagements (Elevate) will be expert in the contractual aspects of ServiceNow’s business, and able to articulate value and structure complex, multi-product agreements to enable the right deal to be presented to the customer.

The role also participates in ServiceNow’s overall transformation effort to establish the best Enterprise salesforce in the industry.

Priorities & Responsibilities

• Agree on resourcing and prioritization with the EMEA, APAC and Japan GEO Chiefs of Staff, Business Operators, and SVPs.
• Champion all collaborative, integrated GTM activities for our Strategic Accounts, including account planning sessions, strategic pursuits, WIN Forums, review cadences, or other GTM activities.
• Drive big deal thinking and best practice sharing both within the immediate team and across the Global team (deal structure, operational opportunities, content on attractive themes like Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, references, etc.).
• Be a voice on behalf of our sales teams to corporate, aiming to continually improve and ensure successful outcomes for our most strategic customers.
• Oversee team’s set of deal engagement; support the proactive prioritization of opportunities where we intend to build > $5M+ NNACV opportunities, track deal progression, and escalate risks/needs to senior leaders as needed.
• Develop team talent through hands-on coaching, growth conversations, and support.
• Represent ServiceNow in senior customer facing roles as executive sponsor, business strategist, and negotiator.

Measure of success

• Growth % of large & complex closed deals > $5M+ NNACV/$15M+ NNTCV.
• Participation % of regional deal volume ($).
• Customer Feedback & NPS.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in the software industry.
• 10+ years of consultative direct sales experience into Enterprise accounts, preferably selling SaaS.
• 5+ years of experience in a leadership/sales leadership role.
• 2+ years of selling experience within the Japanese market.
• 2+ years of Large Deal or Corporate Strategy/Business Development experience, supporting complex transactions such as M&A, IP Acquisition, Revenue Share Models, etc.
• Demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Excellent knowledge of Sales Methodologies.
• Organizational and analytical skills.
• Experience within a large organization, ability to work in a matrixed environment.
• International work experience.
• Continuous improvement and growth mindset.

Not sure if you meet every qualification? We still encourage you to apply! We value inclusivity, welcoming candidates from diverse backgrounds, including non-traditional paths. Unique experiences enrich our team, and the willingness to dream big makes you an exceptional candidate!

Additional Information

Work Personas

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Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

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