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NTT America Solutions, Inc. Director, Commercial in Bad Homburg, Germany
NTT is a leading global IT solutions and services organisation that brings together people, data and things to create a better and more sustainable future.
In today’s ‘iNTTerconnected’ world, connections matter more now than ever. By bringing together talented people, world-class technology partners and emerging innovators, we help our clients solve some of the world’s most significant technological, business and societal challenges.
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The Director, Commercial is a leadership role, responsible for collaborating with multiple stakeholders to oversee the commercial function with the goal of ensuring profitability for the organization and maintaining relevance to clients.
This leadership role is accountable for leading a team of commercial managers and / or senior individual commercial architects, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on achieving operational excellence.
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Key Responsibilities:
Manages the preparation of the commercial parts of sales proposals for submission to clients.
Ensure adherence to commercial policies and procedures in the compilation of client deals.
Drives activities amongst relevant stakeholders to ensure accurate evaluation of deal costs and related deal terms and conditions.
Interpret and enforce commercial management governance and methodologies to be used in deal structuring.
Accountable for guiding and coaching to the team on what steps must be taken to improve execution of the commercial contracts.
Act as trusted advisor to field sales teams on all commercial matters to ensure deal viability and assuming a critical role in structuring large, strategic opportunities that are complex and of high value.
Accountable for the definition and management of the implementation of approval matrices and workflows for deal approvals.
Manages deal reviews with prospects, sales teams and management.
Measure, monitor and report on deal metrics, including items such as discounting and pricing practices, taxation, etc.
Provide thought leadership to develop innovative deal structures, manage risk within the contractual terms and structure, and educate the sales team on our latest product bundles and offerings.
Review and vet complex deals.
Ensure timely delivery of compliant and commercially sound offers.
Manage a team of senior commercial architects and/or managers.
Knowledge and Attributes:
Ability to provide leadership and direction to teams, driving operational excellence and results.
Creative, strategic, and financial acumen coupled with strong business intellect.
Displays a cohesive ability at interpersonal and communication skills, both verbally and written.
Ability to lead change and manage organisational and high-level process changes.
Resourceful problem solver with strong influencing and strong negotiation, contracting, operational and business skills.
Ability to collaborate with senior leadership at a strategic and tactical level.
Sense of ownership and pride in performance and its impact on the company’s success.
Demonstrates calmness and composure under pressure and uncertainty.
Ability to understand new issues quickly and make wise decisions.
Ability to inspire and move a cross-functional team towards a unified direction with a common vision.
Demonstrable competency in strategic planning and business development.
Familiarity with federal, local, corporate, and global regulations to ensure compliance.
Demonstrated strong business / financial acumen with the ability to provide viable solutions to business leaders to support the achievement of their business commitments.
Strategic and systemic thinker with the ability to take a big picture approach to developing innovative strategies that support and balance both near and long-term objectives for the business.
Academic Qualifications and Certifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Administration or Finance or a related field.
Master's degree such as an MBA or Finance desirable.
Required Experience:
Significant experience working within a Commercial or similar role, preferably within a global IT services organization.
Significant track record of working cross-functionally with multiple teams.
Significant previous experience in a Commercial management/leadership role within a similar environment or industry.
Significant people leadership and management experience.
Significant experience in contract negotiation.
Significant experience in translating leadership discussions into an analytical decision-making framework.
Solid experience with operations, order processing, fulfilment, revenue recognition, legal contracts, purchase orders, license agreements.
Significant experience with relevant sales systems such as Salesforce.com.
Skills Summary
Business Growth, Business Profitability, Contract Negotiations, Financial Acumen, People Management, Sales Enablement, Sales Proposals
Workplace type :
On-site Working
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Being part of a global pioneer – where you gain exposure to our Fortune 500 clients and world-leading global technology partners and work with a network of over 40,000 smart and diverse colleagues across 57 countries, delivering services in over 200 countries.
Being at the forefront of cutting-edge technology – backed with a 150-year heritage of using technology for good. With 40% of the world’s internet traffic running on our network and where Emoji were first invented, you can be proud of the group’s many new ‘firsts’.
Making a difference – by doing meaningful work that helps to shape the future for our clients, and across industries and communities around the world.
Being your best self – in a progressive ‘Connected Working’ environment that promotes flexibility, connection and wellbeing. Where diversity and different perspectives are embraced to ensure equal opportunities for all.
Having ongoing opportunities to own and develop your career – with a personal and professional development plan and access to the broadest learning offerings in the industry.