Associate Solution Sales Director

Job Description

Job Purpose

The primary focus is to play a leading role as the Technical Sales Driver in providing pre-sales technical expertise to the Account team and customers for Managed Services and Networking opportunities. You build opportunities / pipeline through an outcome-based consultative approach and drive deal closure that pull through other StarHub solutions and products. At the same time, you should also educate the target market on StarHub transformation and its value offerings, roadmap and its differentiation of its market leading role.

The key function involves leading opportunity development efforts from lead qualification through closure. You take ownership of the solution design process to ensure the selection and use of best fitting technology, delivery and support processes. You own the preparation and presentation of technical and commercial proposals of how StarHubs solutions and products can meet customers needs and be integrated with customers systems and equipment.

Responsibilities
Introduce StarHub's portfolio of solutions and services to achieve a high share-of-wallet in the account by positioning StarHub strengths and capabilities in front of customers
Understand customers businesses, and identify influencers and decision makers within a customer organization. Focus on identifying customers business challenges and developing strong value propositions to help customers meet their business objectives
Engage effectively with all levels across a customers organization to include all C-level executives, negotiate with customers and effectively close business deals
Prepares, presents and conveys the customers benefit of solutions in bid proposals and presentations
Reviews, edits and optimizes the documents and give recommendations for improvement to technical authors or even rewrite major parts Provide guidance and coaching to technical authors
Identifies and summarizes main obligations and risks of contracts
Negotiation Support: Support in developing the contract and if necessary participation in contract negotiations, to bridge possible gaps between legal, technical and commercial solution
Interact with internal departments and external partners to develop and implement strategies, plans and business models
Ensure revenue targets are met
Proper planning, monitoring and accurate forecasts on billing
Ensure excellent Customer Satisfaction levels with every Customer engagement

Qualifications

Diploma or Degree in IT, Computer Science or related field
Minimum 8 years proven customer engagement (in presales, business development and account management) track record in the Telecommunications or IT industry
Experience in Routing, Switching and Wireless
Understanding of NFV, SD-WAN, SDN and Cloud Computing technologies is advantageous
Exposure to network equipment e.g. Cisco Systems, HP Aruba, Juniper Networks, F5, etc.
High degree of self-motivation, strong commitment and result oriented
Dedicated professional with excellent written and verbal communication skills
Independent and resourceful team player with a genuine enthusiasm for providing excellent support to internal and external customers