Associate Commercial Architect

NTT; Durban; Hybrid; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Join NTT DATA as an Associate Commercial Architect, an entry-level role focused on commercial support and pricing proposals within a leading global IT services organization. You will develop key skills in negotiation, business acumen, and detail-oriented analysis while contributing to significant client opportunities in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Entry-level experience working within a Commercial or similar field.
• Understanding of pricing assumptions and models.
• Team skills and ability to work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Supports preparing commercial parts of sales proposals.
• Helps maintain vendor warranties to ensure inclusion.
• Supports deal profitability investigations.

Skills

Negotiation skills

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Analytical mind

Communication skills

Microsoft Office skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Finance

Job description

Make an impact with NTT DATA
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Your day at NTT DATA
The Associate Commercial Architect is an entry level role within the Commercial Architecture job family.

This role provides commercial support on client opportunities to the senior members of the commercial team.

Key responsibilities:

• Supports with preparing the commercial parts of sales proposals for submission to clients.
• Supports with building and compiling pricing models for specific proposals and provides input into the development of standardized pricing models.
• Supports with presenting key pricing assumptions and risks for sign-off at relevant levels, in line with the authority matrix.
• Supports with incorporating organizational terms and conditions into the structure of client financing models and master services agreements.
• Helps to ensure deal profitability by investigating taxation, inflationary movements cost of living issues, etc.
• Provides support to relevant team by assisting with the maintenance of vendor warranties to ensure inclusion in the construction of deals.
• Supports with the evaluation of the financing, leasing, and accounting impacts of deals.
• Provides support on process/business requirements development.
• May prepare contract and financial budgets, reports and summaries, as require, including profitability and cashflow analysis.
• Supports accurate and timely billing for services provided under the contract.
• May support with logging and addressing commercial/contract disputes.
• Performs any other relevant ask as requested by management.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Developing understanding of the local operating, commercial and general business conditions.
• Developing negotiation skills with lateral thinking ability.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Developing business and commercial acumen coupled with an analytical mind.
• Ability to work under pressure without compromising quality and accuracy.
• Solid team skills, particularly engaging with the team to continuously develop own expertise.
• Good communication skills, especially related to facilitation, documentation, and reporting.
• Good Microsoft Office skills (Excel/Word/PowerPoint).
• Highly numerate and display high levels of integrity.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Administration or Finance or a related field.

Required experience:

• Entry level experience working within a Commercial or similar field, preferably within a global IT services organization.
• Entry level experience working with pricing assumptions and developing pricing models.
• Entry level demonstrated experience in deal structuring, pricing review, and negotiation.
• Entry level experience working with vendors and/or suppliers.
• Entry level experience in an accounting type role.

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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