Strategic Advisor

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Sales

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This is an outstanding opportunity to join a team of ex-Strategy and Value Consultants working as a SWAT team for Mulesoft / Salesforce Leadership in ANZ. We are looking for a strategic-thinking, sales-focused and execution-oriented consultant to work on our most crucial accounts during sales cycles to:

- Champion value selling, driving value assessments with key strategic accounts
- Participate on the account team as a strategic partner, advising and influencing account strategy, deal planning and success plans.
- Support the latter stages of sales cycles with deal engineering, proposal build, and negotiation.
- Establish credibility with customer executives, such as CIOs, CTOs, CDOs and CFOs, based on experience with IT, digital transformation and large capex projects.
- Provide thought leadership, training and consultative partnering with internal sales and other cross-functional customer-facing teams throughout the sales cycle
- Scaling and enabling the Sales Team on Value Justification and Proposal/ CIO Narrative Development

**Responsibilities**:

- Work with Enterprise sales teams to define the commercial strategy; prioritise sales initiatives based on pain points, value creation potential, and customers' priorities.
- Build and deliver compelling Investment Justifications to secure Customers' funding for Salesforce solutions. Work closely with account teams and customers to identify and analyse key business value drivers.
- Articulate how our solutions will digitally transform customers' businesses at scale.
- Put together attractive deal structures and articulate the value of our Proposals. Create and deliver C-level compelling propositions as the basis for strategic technology decisions.

**Experience & Skills**:

- Proven experience in strategy consulting in a top -tier strategy consulting firm or previous Value Consulting Experience
- Experience in quickly building credibility and establishing alignment with sales leaders to drive a "franchisee" model
- Strong understanding of a particular Industry and developing value propositions related to that industry
- Strong ability to build, quantify insights and communicate recommendations to CxOs
- Experience in developing content, a new process or tool to help a practice improve efficiency, quality and/or scale
- Ability to mentor new employees with perseverance, clarity, empathy and action
- Strong analytical & problem-solving skills are critical.
- Strong influencing capabilities; must be a self-starter, high-energy
- Ability to understand customer pain points, how to build recommendations/actions to solve those pain points, and how to measure the impact
- Passionate about immersing yourself in a customer's business and connecting the dots to how MuleSoft can truly impact the business
- Strong appetite to work in a consultative strategic selling environment.

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