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Join a forward-thinking company as a Services Account Specialist, where you'll drive customer success through consulting and training services. This role involves collaborating with account teams to enhance service offerings, negotiating project costs, and ensuring customer satisfaction. You'll leverage your understanding of the Saudi market and Red Hat's innovative solutions to build strong relationships and deliver value to clients. If you're passionate about open source technology and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.
Job Summary
The Red Hat Services team is looking for an experienced Services Account Specialist to join us in the Riyadh Office. In this role, you will help us be the catalyst for customer success the open source way by understanding our customers’ business and technical needs and by offering consulting and training services as part of Red Hat’s solutions. You will ultimately be accountable in alignment with the Sales account team for the successful adoption and value realization for the offerings and services our customers have purchased. As a Services Account Specialist, reporting to a regional services manager, you’ll be responsible for an assigned region, market, or set of accounts. Successful applicants must reside in a country where Red Hat is registered to do business.
What You Will Do
As part of the account team, develop relationships with key customer stakeholders to grow services bookings and revenue within your nominated accounts
Actively participate in account planning and strategy sessions and reviews with the wider account team
Closely work with strategic business partners to complement solutions and maximize customer value
Work with the delivery teams, including delivery managers, program and project managers, architects, and consultants, on getting the right offerings scoped to solve customer business needs
Negotiate Services pricing, project costs, and terms
Work closely with internal stakeholders like the Business Affairs, Finance, and Risk Management teams to gain necessary approvals for proposals
Be responsible for and have the ownership of the bookings forecast for the assigned group of accounts or sectors
Provide executive leadership during the whole customer journey, including presales and post-sales phases
Lead Services offerings in specific customer opportunities; call for and guide the formation of opportunity teams (services participation) together with the account manager
Collaborate with business development managers, solutions practices, the Partners and Alliances and Marketing teams, and other territory services managers on wider strategic initiatives and business development activities
What You Will Bring
Ability to create and articulate the value proposition; experience in consultative selling and professional services delivery
Experience & knowledge of the Saudi market & customers, familiarity with the Saudi vision 2030
Knowledge of Red Hat’s or competitive technologies that engage and build trust with customer stakeholders at different levels
Understanding of customer business impact as well as the internal impact of projects from a legal, financial, supportability, scalability, and repeatability points of view
Experience working in customer-facing roles like an architect or consultant or in a related presales or services role
Services selling experience including development of statements of work (SoWs), requests for information (RFIs), and requests for proposal (RFPs), pricing, large-scale proposal development, and customer journeys
Experience leading and working in virtual and cross-functional teams
Proven record of closing complex solutions-led deals worth millions of dollars
Good understanding of and real experience designing, selling, and implementing enterprise architectures, including hybrid cloud solutions
Willingness to participate in regular business travel for customer and internal meetings
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About Red Hat
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