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Client Partner
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Client Partner
Kinaxis
• Identify sales and services opportunities for an assigned book of business and manage ongoing engagements with customers throughout the services sale lifecycle. • Present deployment methodology and make recommendations on phased approaches to deployments. • Develop strategic account plans to meet assigned revenue target. • Partner with the internal Sales team to identify and close new business opportunities. • Develop comprehensive SOWs, including communicating what would be required in terms of cost, time, and resources to deploy an implementation to client specifications. • Lead discovery workshops to understand client business issues and gain a shared understanding of the project and develop a design direction. • Build productive partnerships with internal stakeholders of the PS, Product Management, Support Services, and Sales teams. • Responsible for helping to establish referenceable clients for Kinaxis. • Build and maintain effective relationships with partner organizations who are engaged in sales, or deployment of, Kinaxis’ solutions. • Be the deployment trusted advisor for customers and partners.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, process engineering, business, supply chain management or a related field.
- Minimum 7 years industry experience in large scale and complex implementations in software consulting services, including hands on experience developing SOWs to deploy client projects, ideally in the supply chain management space.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in professional services sales with new customers.
- A background in consulting
- Excellent communicator and able to gain trust quickly with all levels of customers up to C-suite.
- Proven negotiator with a track record of consistently meeting or exceeding revenue targets.
- Dynamic and critical thinker who can understand the intricacies of a deployment and the solution, while also maintaining a strategic view of the project and customer needs.
- Travel 30-60% of the time domestically and occasional international travel.
- Kinaxis RapidResponse certification in the role of Contributor, Author, or Admin is considered an asset.
Benefits
- Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide days off)
- Flexible work options
- Physical and mental well-being programs
- Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
- Mentorship programs, training, and career development
- Recognition programs and referral rewards
- Hackathons
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