Manager - Sales - CES

Sales Manager CES

Job Summary:

- To develop and build relationships and provide Experience Management (XM) solutions to customers, help in solving business problems and improve over all customer engagement.

- Achieve overall sales target for the assigned solutions of XM and Knowledge management and develop new customers and partners across India

- Experience in software customer experience ,digital, cloud

Key Accountabilities:

- To build strong, open and collaborative relationships with the customers, Partners and Global Sales Consulting teams

- To become an integral contributor to the Sales organization, ability to meet and exceed target revenue.

- To sell advanced applications like, Experience management, Knowledge Management product sales through identification of customer needs and development of solutions that create business value for prospects and customers

- To establish strong relationships during the entire sales-cycle with prospects and customers, based on deep product expertise and thorough understanding of importance of customer experience improvement in various industries

- To develop and maintain the "Trusted Advisor" status with prospects and customers by;

- Identifying and understanding customer business objectives through:

- Prospect and customer meetings

- Workshop facilitation

- Industry research and understanding

Articulating the value of to our prospects and customers through:

- Solution presentations

- Techno-commercial presentations

- Proposal authoring

- Business case creation

- Channel management

- To assist in the development and sales support of channel partners so that they become integral part of the effective sales team to generate target revenue

- To support the transition from successful sales into successful professional services delivery and take end-end ownership.

People Specification:

Characteristics required:

- Integrity; Being honest, respectful, accountable and fair

- Professionalism; Take personal responsibility for the quality of our work, our attitude, communication and how we present ourselves.

- Passion; Being enthusiastic and positive in our actions

- Preparedness; Continuing to be current, knowledgeable and informed

- Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science or related degree with 6-8 years industry experience been involved in direct and indirect sales.

- Ability to bridge the fabled IT/business divide, using commercial experience and strong communication skills to complete a variety of deliverables from defining solution requirements, to leading RFI and RFP response teams, to translating techno babble into easy English.

- Have an understanding of the Customer need across multi-channels such as Telephony, Email, Chat, Asynchronous channels, Social Media and BackOffice; and translating this into successful sales.

- Strong business analysis and consulting skills, including strong verbal and written communication skills and effective time management skills. Ability to quickly understand client requirements and needs and articulate potential solutions.

- Experience, as sales and relationship consultant, engaging at many levels of customer organizations, including business, operations, finance, as well as CXO level executives.

- Proven analytical and problem solving skills