Qualitest is 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.
- Background on Qualitest, and why you should join.
- Background on Qualitest (see separate pdf).
- Strong sponsorship for driving one of the largest technology accounts at Qualitest.
- 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.
13 days ago