The successful candidate will be expected to go beyond selling individual products — understanding customers' business and technology challenges, identifying opportunities across their infrastructure environment, and developing solutions that generate sustainable revenue and profitability.
Key Responsibilities
Business Development & Hunting
- Develop and execute new business strategies to generate a healthy pipeline of infrastructure and technology opportunities.
- Proactively hunt for new customers, projects and business opportunities rather than relying solely on leads generated by principals or vendors.
- Identify customer pain points, upcoming infrastructure refreshes, transformation initiatives and technology investment opportunities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with enterprise customers and key decision-makers.
- Identify opportunities within existing accounts for cross-selling, upselling and expansion.
Principal & Vendor Management
- Develop and manage business opportunities across key technology principals
- Build strong working relationships with principals, distributors and technology partners.
- Leverage vendor resources, programs and technical capabilities to support opportunity development.
- Proactively pursue opportunities even in competitive situations where multiple partners are engaged with the same principal or customer.
- Develop joint business opportunities and go-to-market initiatives with technology partners.
Solution Selling
- Understand customer requirements across servers, storage, virtualization, HCI, cloud and data centre infrastructure.
- Identify opportunities to expand a customer's requirement from a single product into a broader solution architecture.
- Work with Presales and technical teams to design and position integrated infrastructure solutions.
- Translate technical capabilities into clear business value, commercial benefits and customer outcomes.
- Present solution proposals and business cases to technical and senior business stakeholders.
- Maintain a strong understanding of competing technologies and alternative solutions in the market.
Account Planning & Revenue Growth
- Develop strategic account plans for key customers, including customer mapping, opportunity identification, whitespace analysis and revenue growth strategies.
- Understand customers' business direction, industry challenges, IT environment and future investment plans.
- Build account strategies that identify multiple opportunities across infrastructure, cloud and related technology solutions.
- Monitor pipeline development, sales forecasts, revenue targets and deal progression.
- Focus on both revenue growth and deal profitability/margin.
- Identify opportunities to increase JOS's share of wallet within strategic accounts.
Sales & Deal Management
- Work closely with Account Managers to identify, qualify and develop opportunities.
- Collaborate with Presales teams to build technically and commercially compelling proposals.
- Take ownership of opportunities from initial engagement through qualification, solution development, negotiation and closure.
- Lead commercial discussions and negotiations with customers and partners.
- Develop business cases, proposals, quotations and presentations together with internal teams.
- Ensure opportunities are commercially viable and aligned with company profitability objectives.
- Maintain accurate sales forecasts and pipeline visibility.
Senior Stakeholder Engagement
- Engage confidently with C-level executives, MDs, business leaders, IT decision-makers and infrastructure stakeholders.
- Understand the customer's business strategy and ask meaningful questions beyond technical requirements.
- Establish trusted-advisor relationships by connecting technology solutions to business objectives.
- Participate in strategic customer meetings, executive briefings and solution discussions.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in B2B technology sales/business development, preferably within enterprise infrastructure, data centre, cloud or related technology solutions.
- Strong experience in selling servers, storage, virtualization, HCI, cloud or data centre solutions.
- Proven track record in new business development and customer hunting.
- Experience managing enterprise/key accounts and developing strategic account plans.
- Strong understanding of solution selling and infrastructure architecture.
- Experience working with technology principals, distributors, system integrators or IT solution providers.
- Proven ability to work effectively with Account Managers, Presales, Technical Consultants and vendor teams.
- Strong commercial understanding of revenue, gross margin, profitability, pipeline and sales forecasting.
- Confident engaging with senior management and C-level stakeholders.
Preferred Experience
- VMware / Virtualization, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), Hybrid Cloud / Cloud Infrastructure, Data Centre Infrastructure, Backup / Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Server & Storage Solution