Sales Specialist

**Sales Specialist: Data Centre**

In a constantly changing world, we work together with our people, clients and communities to enable them to fulfill their potential to do great things. We believe that by bringing everyone together, we can solve problems using innovative technology that can create a world that is sustainable and secure. At NTT, we encourage you to remain continuously curious, as that is what keeps you fast, flexible and relevant. No two days will be the same but that is what will help you grow and realize your full potential.

The power is in your hands to do great things. It’s time to lead the change, be the authentic you, to solve difficult challenges, to set the pace of change and to unleash your potential.

**Want to be a part of our team?**

The Data Centre (DC) Sales Specialist is responsible for selling the company’s data centre and services to and maintaining relationships within existing and new accounts.

The role will see you drive new business by pursuing and landing qualified leads through new account acquisition and pursuing and landing leads identified by the Client Management teams. You will also identify new opportunities from a selection of new and existing accounts.

You will present solutions, value propositions, partner configurations, cost structures, and revenue models to the client ensuring that these meet their strategic needs. This role contributes to the pre-sales process by working with pre-sales architects to create the best solution design for the client, as well as building and developing excellent stakeholder relationships with new and existing clients, whilst developing new business channels and territories.

**Working at NTT**

**Australian Citizen with NV1 Clearance Required**
- Drive overall DC sales engagement, pricing, and commercial and contractual terms.
- Share responsibility for win strategy with sales, challenge sub-optimal RFPs with an alternative approach focused on business value and a set of insights to differentiate.
- Manage and grow relationships to drive new business expansion across all Networking related hardware, software, professional services and support services: Vendor Based Resell (VBR) and NTT platform support Services - Uptime and Software Defined Infrastructure Services SDI-S
- Be 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.
- Act as a client and industry expert and gain insights into client’s most urgent business problems or business opportunities while linking how our data centre related technology product and service 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.
- Own the sales process and collaboratively work with extended sales teams, especially other 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.
- 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 relevant CRM.
- Structure deals and 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.
- Minimise churn and maximize retention in assigned accounts.
- Land, adopt, expand - Identify client business needs with a view to help shape solution development by the wider pursuit teams.
- Actively search for expansion opportunities.

**What will make you a good fit for the role?**
- **Australian Citizen with NV1 Clearance Required**:

- Extensive sales experience within a technology services provider with a proven track record of achieving or overachieving targets.
- Demonstrated experience and success in solution-based selling in the data centre space.
- A strong understanding of the various networking vendor solutions (e.g. Dell EMC, NetApp, HP, HDS, Cloud Storage etc.) portfolios and vendor programs and remain current with updates and changes.
- Significant experience selling complex solutions and services to senior IT and business stakeholders or to the C-Suite.
- High degree of related experience in account and/or client management.
- Broad understanding of IT Managed Services environment.
- Experience in resolving a wide range of