Senior Networking and Security Sales Specialist

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As a Senior Networking Technology Sales Specialist at NTT DATA, you will use your expertise to pursue and secure qualified leads, working closely with our Client Management team and other departments. As a Sales Specialist, you are also responsible for generating your own pipeline and opportunities within your assigned client base. You'll identify new opportunities within existing accounts and present tailored solutions that meet client needs, showcasing our value propositions and innovative revenue models.

In this role, you will spend a significant amount of time directly engaging with clients at various levels within their organizations, as well as collaborating with our internal subject matter experts. You'll contribute to the pre-sales process by working with pre-sales architects to create optimal solutions while also building strong, lasting relationships with clients with a focus in the financial services and insurance sector.

Your deep knowledge of networking technology will support the closure of sales. You'll address any conceptual challenges during the sales process and consistently bring meaningful conversations to the table. By keeping an eye on the competitive landscape, you will help define and execute sales strategies that not only meet but exceed market demands.

Working with technology vendors, you'll ensure a thorough understanding of their solutions and how they contribute to our offerings. You will articulate client solutions that focus on deliverables rather than products, preparing and conducting engaging workshops and presentations. By understanding our clients' business goals, you will personalize recommendations and drive sales processes smoothly to closure.

• Asserts subject matter expertise in the Networking and Security technology domain.

• Supports the closure of sales based on technology domain knowledge.

• Addresses the technology conceptual challenges during the sales process.

• Asserts a high level of relevant product and service knowledge to have meaningful conversations with potential and existing clients.

• Maintains awareness of the competitive landscape, market pricing, and strategy and how to penetrate a new market.

• Contributes to the knowledge base of the company's solutions and services within a practice area or service area by sharing best practices with internal teams, as well as client teams.

• Owns the client relationship and continuously build a professional relationship within assigned accounts.

• Works with relevant technology vendors and ensures a deep understanding of their solutions and how they can contribute to our own solutions set.

• Engages and interacts with clients to uncover and understand client business goals.

• Articulates the solution/deliverables that the client requires, as opposed to the products that they need to buy.

• Prepares and conducts client workshops and presentations and establishes relationships with multiple client stakeholders and secure deals with clients to achieve assigned sales quotas and targets.

• Uses understanding of the client’s business and depth of knowledge on the technology-specific solution to personalize the recommended solution in line with the client’s need.

• Identifies and acts on new sales opportunities within an account and work with the sales teams to drive them to closure.

• Pursues and lands qualified leads identified by the client managers and other lead generation…