Senior Client Partner / Senior Vice President (Tech)
QualiTest Group
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We are looking for a Senior Client Partner / Senior Vice President to work from our US-based (West Coast - Bay area, Seattle) office.
Overview:
Reports into the Qualitest MD for Americas, working out of the West Coast Bay area. Directly responsible for partnering with one or more large and strategic technology clients, who are one of the top-5 tech giants in the US and are global in nature. Ownership and accountability for client engagement, collaborating with internal and client stakeholders to provide complete solutions and capabilities to deliver client outcomes. Accountable for the global P&L, client and employee satisfaction for the engagement. Shape and drive initiatives to accelerate revenue growth, improve P&L, build and execute strategic growth plan for the client engagement. Collaborate with Marketing, Inside Sales, Account Management, delivery management and Centers of Excellence to develop strategic plans to accelerate revenue and margin performance.
Business objectives of the role:
Objective: Build deep client relationships, accelerate revenue and margin growth, operate client engagement in a global operating model, deliver services across Qualitest services spectrum for a large Technology client based out of west coast. Success will be measured by: Increase in revenue and $ACV pipeline. Expansion of pipeline across all services. Improvement in Gross Margins. GM% Relationships with current senior stakeholders, building new relationships in lines of business, creating opportunities for cross-sell and upsell of services. Revenue growth and pipeline growth for AI data services (Real world data that are input to fine-tune AI algorithms). Tracking of pipeline growth metrics. e.g. qualified leads, weighted $ ACV, % win rates
Key activities of the role:
Resolve customer concerns and requests efficiently. Build, assess and continuously improve account strategies to meet financial and operational targets. Build new client relationships through meetings, presentations, calls, networking, and campaigns. Coach, mentor and guide account managers into building deeper client relationships and solution capability for the individual lines of business that they operate in. Monitor client satisfaction and update strategies when necessary. Create business proposals, solution construct, pricing strategies for clients and management. Negotiate new business contracts with clients. Offer services, IPs, solutions and consultations for clients. Build a global operating model for the client to operate uniformly across regions and provide a cohesive set of services and delivery metrics. Encourage sales among current and new clients within the account. Work across leadership team to design and implement specific GTM initiatives: Improving customer insights (e.g. win/loss analysis) and competitor insights (e.g. go-to-market strategies and investments). Refine sales strategy, develop strategic campaigns, build muscle to address growth areas. Identify priority services, target personas. Making the business case for strategic investments to penetrate the addressable market. Optimize best practice playbooks, processes, role definitions: Account planning and account management (up-sell, cross-sell). Expand footprint in newer lines of business within client. Collaboration with Centers of Excellence (pre-sales technical experts). Optimize weekly and monthly revenue management meetings. Prepare materials for monthly business reviews, forecast reviews and margin improvement plans.
Direct reports (see Appendix A for detail):
Account managers for client. Onshore delivery leaders. Onshore operations leader. A data-driven, fast pace company culture. Rapid decision making. Ability to make strategic investments. Ability to create break-through results stories. Highly innovative business e.g. use of AI across the Software Development Lifecycle, building leading-edge solutions for this client.
APPENDIX A: QT functions that this role can influence (as Strategic client partner):
New Logos: Team leader and sales reps. Industry Sector leader and Account Managers. Specialist sales people e.g. specific service lines. AI Data services sales. Market-facing CoE tech experts.
Qualifications:
Significant recent experience managing client's account with a track record of closing large, muti-year deals (must have directly worked with/be working with client, relationships established, etc.). Should have spent time in a sales, account management, or other customer-facing role at consulting companies. 18-20 years of work experience in managing clients and P&L. Experience working with Technology industry giants and having built prior relationships. Proven expertise in managing and building $75M+ global accounts. Background in B2B Enterprise Sales, large deals ($5M+ individual contracts). Ideally customized project-based deals (not selling a ‘product’). Ideally IT services engagements that have a mix of modern technologies. Experience collaborating closely with B2B sales and delivery teams. Background in consulting. Data-driven approach. Strong communication (verbal and written). Structured approach to large engagement management (OKRs, milestones, resourcing etc.). But will also need to collaborate closely with functions based in India e.g. Marketing, Inside Sales, Centre of Excellence (Technical expertise). Also need to collaborate with teams in UK / EMEA.
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