Deal Desk Manager

Navan; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Navan is seeking a Deal Strategy Manager, EMEA to guide complex software deal negotiations and align customer needs with Navan's strategic priorities. You will partner with internal teams across legal, contracts, finance, and product to ensure value-driven, compliant deal outcomes.

The role emphasizes revenue optimization with risk mitigation across multi-market EMEA. Strong negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder management skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Business degree and/or JD/MBA required.
• 5+ years in software industry (Deal Desk, Finance, Sales Ops preferred).
• Customer-facing experience essential.
• Strong eye for business with proven negotiation track record.
• Self-motivated, able to multitask under pressure.
• Solid understanding of software revenue recognition.
• Knowledge of commercial law and contract management.
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
• Proficient knowledge of Salesforce, CPQ.

Responsibilities

• Develop in-depth knowledge of Navan licensing and pricing models to provide deal structuring and quoting support to our global sales teams.
• Collaborate with the sales team to meet customers’ needs while adhering to Navan's guardrails.
• Enable deal formation and execution while minimizing sales cycle times and optimizing revenue, profitability, and market share.
• Participate in external, customer-facing negotiations.
• Work cross-functionally with legal, contracts, sales operations, order management, revenue, finance and product management.
• Drive best practices to increase sales efficiency via deal reviews and enforcement of standard practices.
• Assist with non-standard deal requests, structuring sophisticated deals and ensuring revenue recognition.
• Support metrics and processes to improve business visibility and consistency across geographies.
• Oversee deal financials, pricing, business risk, and revenue recognition implications.

Skills

Customer facing

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Ownership & collaboration

Self-motivated

Education

Business degree/JD/MBA

Tools

Salesforce

CPQ

Job description

Deal Strategy Manager, EMEA

Navan is seeking a Deal Strategy Manager, EMEA to collaborate closely with our sales team in driving deal negotiations. This role is responsible for managing complex contract negotiations, aligning customer needs with Navan's strategic priorities, and partnering with internal sales and business teams throughout the contract signing process. As a key guardian of our EMEA commercial strategy, you will balance revenue optimization with risk mitigation across a diverse, multi-market landscape.

We are looking for a commercial strategist who is genuinely passionate about the art of the deal!

What You’ll Do

• Develop in-depth knowledge of Navan licensing and pricing models to provide deal structuring and quoting support to our global sales teams
• Work with the sales team to find creative ways to meet customers’ needs while adhering to Navan's commercial and financial guardrails
• Be a critical enabler of deal formation and execution, focusing on minimizing sales cycle times while optimizing revenue, profitability, and market share.
• Actively participate in external, customer-facing negotiations
• Work cross functionally across various stakeholder groups including legal, contracts, sales operations, order management, revenue, finance and product management
• Drive best practices to increase sales efficiency and effectiveness via deal reviews, early checkpoint and enforcement of standard business practices and policies
• Assist with non-standard deal requests, structuring sophisticated deals, driving cross-functional and cross solution teamwork and ensure revenue recognition requirements are handled
• Support metrics and processes to improve business visibility and consistency of practices across geographies
• Overseeing deal financials, pricing, business risk, revenue recognition implication

What We’re Looking For

• Business degree and/or JD/ MBA
• 5+ years of software industry experience (Deal Desk, Finance, Sales Operations experience preferred)
• Customer facing experience
• Strong eye for business and proven track record in commercial negotiations
• Self-motivated and able to work under pressure; diligent with deliverables and deadlines, able to multitask
• Solid understanding of software revenue recognition principles
• Deep understanding of commercial law and experience in contract management
• Excellent interpersonal skills – verbal and written
• Strong analytical skills along with the ability to demonstrate practical judgment in sophisticated situations
• Strong ownership and collaboration skills, with the ability to interact regularly with senior management
• Proficient knowledge of Salesforce, CPQ

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