Client Manager

NTT Limited; Selangor; Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT Limited is seeking an experienced Client Manager to foster and expand client relationships across various solution areas. The ideal candidate will demonstrate sales expertise, strong client engagement skills, and the ability to achieve revenue targets. Experience in IT or professional services is essential, as well as proficiency in utilizing tools like Salesforce.com for account management. This role offers a hybrid work environment, emphasizing the importance of collaboration and innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or a sales-related field is required.
• Experience in a global partner management role is important.
• Strong sales orientation with experience driving solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manages client relationships and drives expansion and renewals.
• Builds relationships with stakeholders and manages account strategies.
• Meets revenue targets and enhances client satisfaction levels.

Skills

Sales business acumen

Client engagement and management

Sales solution skills

Sales pursuit

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business or a sales related field

Relevant vendor certifications

Tools

Salesforce.com

Job description

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.

Your day at NTT DATA

The Client Manager is a seasoned subject matter expert. This is a quota-bearing sales persona and is primarily responsible for taking full ownership of assigned accounts and manages and grows relationships to drive expansion and renewals across all solution areas. This role is able to do so by leveraging company's tools and methodologies to analyze the client’s situation and business requirements.

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.

Your day at NTT DATA

The Client Manager is a seasoned subject matter expert. This is a quota-bearing sales persona and is primarily responsible for taking full ownership of assigned accounts and manages and grows relationships to drive expansion and renewals across all solution areas. This role is able to do so by leveraging company's tools and methodologies to analyze the client’s situation and business requirements.

This role possesses advanced planning skills to coordinates the interaction of a number of company role-players in different geographies during the sales engagement.

The Client Manager displays strategic thinking capabilities, a high level of business acumen and deep knowledge of the latest trends in terms of technology sales methods and approaches.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities:

• Manages and grows relationships to drive expansion and renewals across all solution areas within assigned regional clients.
• Builds relationships and influences stakeholders.
• Works with and through company's network of offices to deliver an excellent client experience in each relevant market.
• Realizes revenue and margin targets and maximizes sales opportunities through connecting client needs with company offerings and solutions.
• Develops and drives organization strategy with local client managers within assigned regional accounts.
• Uses engagement skills to establish account strategies with key stakeholders (focus of power, focus of receptivity, focus of dissatisfaction).
• Minimizes churn and maximizes retention in assigned accounts.
• Use company's sales tools (for example, Salesforce.com) and methodology to effectively manage the accounts, opportunities, pipelines and forecast.
• Be fully aware of and understand the International Trade Policy.
• Meets or exceeds quota targets through comprehensive account management.
• Grows the profitability, revenues and client satisfaction levels for company’s regional clients’ portfolio.
• Drives passionately for client satisfaction throughout the entire lifecycle of the clients’ buying process, by taking ownership for the commercial agreement for each client.
• Generates demand by assisting clients to identify current needs (turning clients’ implied needs into explicit needs), and then effectively articulating how company can add value through services and solutions.
• Approaches the management of the account in a systematic way by identifying the strategy which will be used to develop and grow the account profitably.
• Performs vulnerability analysis of company's position in comparison to that of competitors and vendors to ensure the client’s requirement is at the heart of the proposed solution.
• Positively influences and enables financial control, governance and compliance in a region throughout area of specialization to prevent and reduce financial costs.
• Acts as first point of contact for client issues.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Sales business acumen. The skills supporting successful selling through organizational and business outcome mindset. Success will require focusing on planning, leveraging tools and data, and concentrating on company business requirements. Developing the skills to understand the client’s business (including commercial and financial aspects) in order to bring value to them from the company's portfolio of services.
• Sales client engagement and management. The skills used to effectively manage and analyze the client throughout the client lifecycle, with the goal of improving client relationships and driving sales growth. Success will require detailed understanding of client needs, effective sales planning, and building trust, all while managing to client expectations. Developing the skills required to know the client, building effective and lasting relationships with them and to be seen as a trusted advisor.
• Sales solution skills. The knowledge of the company’s offerings, client applications, use cases and market trends and the skill to apply them to individual client and prospect situations that positions the sales team member as an expert client advisor. Success will require the ability to link company offerings, including high-value services to specific client and prospect needs and outcomes.
• Sales pursuit. The skills and knowledge that enable a sales team member to create success by identifying and advancing opportunities at assigned prospects and clients. Success will require both individual ownership as well as accountability for coordinating internal and external resources in order to close sales opportunities.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business or a sales related field.
• Relevant vendor certifications would be advantageous

Required Experience:

• Seasoned experience in a global partner management role.
• Seasoned experience in a sales environment and/or customer service role.
• Seasoned experience in the IT or professional services industry with a focus on business development and/or sales.
• Seasoned experience in driving alignment to a common vision and working across multiple stakeholders to achieve sales growth.
• Seasoned sales orientation with experience working with clients and business teams to create sales-orientated solutions and services.
• Seasoned experience gained in a similar client manager role.
• Seasoned experience working with Salesforce.com contact platform.

Workplace type :

Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long-term success. We invest over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure, and connectivity. We are also one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group and headquartered in Tokyo.

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About Us

Is innovation part of your DNA? Do you want to enable a connected future for people, organizations, and society?

Join our growing global NTT family and you’ll be part of the world’s largest ICT company (by revenue). We’ve combined the capabilities of 28 remarkable companies to become one, leading technology services provider. Together, we help our people, clients, and communities do great things with technology to create a more secure and connected future.

We employ 40,000 people across 57 countries. By bringing together the world’s best technology companies and emerging innovators, we work together to deliver sustainable outcomes to businesses and the world. Innovation is part of our DNA. We believe it’s key to what makes us different. So, we strive to move forward, challenge the status quo, and drive excellence through the technologies we integrate and the services we deliver around the world. The result is connected cities, connected factories, connected healthcare, connected agriculture, connected conservation, connected mobility, and connected sport. Together we enable the connected future.

You’ll be joining a global employer that is committed to attracting, growing and keeping the best talent. A place where you will be at the heart of our success!