Versent is an Australian-born technology company, focused on architecting, building amp; operating cloud native applications, data streams, platforms and services.
Our solutions are centred around AWS and best of breed technology. From a stand-still start in 2014, we've grown to over 400 Versentonians in just five years across Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide Perth, Brisbane, Singapore and now Denver.
With a diversified offering in professional services, managed services and product, we are poised for significant growth in 2021.
An exciting new role has been created in our newly establised CTO (pre-sales) function within our professional services team where
this role is to focus on new net growth, driving customer growth and thought leadership for strategic pursuits/deals that result in long term consulting outcomes in our ever growing Data and Insights Practice.
This is achieved through the expertise that the role brings to the strategic customer conversations, partially in matching and shaping business requirements and outcomes.You will acts as the deal lead in the sales process for application development and into client delivery to develop engagements into strategic customers, demonstrating Versent’s capability and leadership.
This role is accountable for working directly with the customer to develop the solution and commercial outcome for the client engagements. This role also works to increase Versent’s sales pipeline for their practice through direct industry relationships and networking and understands the practices technology strategy and business requirements and outcomes.Responsibilities will include:- Acting as credible partner in the Sales process, working with the account team to lead in new customers and build customer confidence in technical ability of Versent
- Working in partnership with the Directors - Customer and Client Account Directors to develop account strategies
- Scoping and understanding customer outcomes and articulating into commercial documents (Statements of Work, Request for Proposal, Bids and Tenders), measured through sales success rates. This includes leading and development of scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, requirements, assumptions, dependencies and out of scope and proposed team roles in Statement of Works
- Accountable for leading and building the engineering and design outcomes in Proof of Value/Concept, YBR, customer demos or leading-edge engagements, ensuring customer satisfaction
- Responsible for establishing and leading the standardisation and reuse of specific material for RFPs, Tenders, Statements of Work and client engagement deliverables
- Maintain stakeholder relationship with key executive sponsors
- Actively engage with delivery teams across all engagements to ensure technical outcomes meet standards and practices, embed learnings and providing technical support
- Playing a lead role in driving, promoting and showcasing Versent’s open source offerings with the internal engineering community
Requirements needed:- Ability to drive Data and Insights growth and work with the practice to find create ways to achieve the growth
- Solid Commercial growth experience
- Ability and sell and pitch software engineering projects to new and exisiting Versent customer
- Establish good relationships with customers and employees. Build effective external networks. Relates to people of all levels and manages conflict effectively.
- Projects credibility - gains clear agreement and commitment from others by persuading, convincing and negotiating
- Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise and shares knowledge with others
- Work strategically to realise organisational goals and take into account a wide range of issues across and related to the organisation
- Demonstrated thought leadership, strategy and direction and have an expert background in the domains that they support
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