Client Manager

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The primary responsibility of the Client Manager is to take full ownership of his/her assigned accounts. Their key focus is to manage and grow relationships to drive land, expansion and renewals across all solutions within assigned accounts. They are required to pursue leads identified by aligned lead generation representatives.

Responsible for selling the company’s products or services to and maintaining relationships with existing accounts.

• Responsibilities
• Client ownership and relationship builder
• Take primary responsibility for the client and act as internal client owner within assigned accounts
• Manage and grow relationships to drive expansion and renewals across all solutions and services
• Responsible for client solution penetration and education, account monitoring and portfolio reporting, and issue resolution ownership
• Lead the business conversations at C-level
• Become the reliable point of contact to further strengthen relationships

Client and industry expert

• Gain insights into client’s most urgent business problems or business opportunities while linking how our solutions and services offerings can add client business value
• Maintain a high level of the relevant industry, product, and service knowledge to have meaningful conversations and generally stay ahead of trends
• Collect and analyze data to learn more about the client and the industry in which they operate

Owning the sales process

• Collaboratively work with extended sales teams, especially Sales Specialists, pre-sales architects, and commercial architects to successfully position the solution and/or service and see the opportunity through to closure
• Partner with internal teams to ensure the scope of work and proposals are tracked, managed, and delivered on time
• Work closely with other in territory counterparts and matrix teams to achieve the shared goal of growth; yet are held accountable for own targets
• Use NTT Ltd.’s sales methodologies and tools such as target plans, opportunity plans and account plans to support the sales process and data-driven insights
• Develop and implement an opportunity plan, to provide regular check-ins with the primary point of contact and have an established process for getting buy-in from all stakeholders
• Maintain a pipeline of leads on Salesforce.com

Deal Structuring

• Create comprehensive client business plans and engage in complex deal negotiation to build a stable, growing pipeline of current and future business opportunities.
• Engage in complex deal structuring and negotiation efforts designed to protect existing business and win new deals.
• Lead business negotiations for contracts ensuring deals are risk-free and profitable
• Client retention and expansion
• Minimize churn and maximize retention in assigned accounts
• Land, adopt, expand, renew – Identify client business needs with a view to help shape solution development by the wider pursuit teams
• Actively search for expansion opportunities

Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes Required

• Good knowledge of Managed Services across domains such as Networking, Collaboration, Data Centres, Security and so on
• Client-centricity coupled with problem-solving
• Strong business acumen and negotiation skills to craft solutions that are beneficial to NTT and the client
• Ability to pro-actively and independently identify and qualify opportunities; an entrepreneurial mindset is key
• Natural team player – ability to coordinate and liaise with delivery teams across multiple business areas
• Quick learner to understand any new solutions that are ready to take to market
• Customer value management and understanding profitability and ratios of clients
• A strategic future thinker who anticipates and considers external and internal factors with the ability to develop long-term plans
• Ability to ask the right questions and tell great stories and have empathy with the client’s challenges. Superior communication skills are a given.
• French language at native level and good verbal and written knowledge of English

Academic Qualifications And Certifications:

• Relevant Degree or Advanced Diploma
• Post-graduate qualification would be advantageous
• Relevant vendor certifications

Required Experience:

• Advanced experience in a similar role in a similar environment
• Advanced experience in a sales environment and/or customer service role
• Advanced sales and client engagement experience coupled with a good understanding of business, sourcing and technology market
• Advanced experience negotiating with clients and vendors
• Advanced experience with business to business and business to consumer sales techniques
• Experience providing mentoring and coaching to less experienced client managers
• Advanced experience analysing commercial information
• Experience working with Salesforce.com contact platform

What We Offer

• Contract of unlimited duration
• Commission plan
• Lunch vouchers
• Forfaitary compensation for professional costs
• Company car or Mobility budget
• Hospitalisation insurance and ambulant care at premium level
• Group and disability insurance
• Possibility to order a lease bike
• 31 days of holiday plus seniority days
• Data and voice subscription + contribution for a smartphone device
• Contribution for internet at home
• Contribution for IT equipment
• Private use of your NTT laptop 

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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