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Flexible work

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Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan

Paid time off and paid holidays

Paid parental leave

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**About Capgemini**

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions demonstrating strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all motivated by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of 22.5 billion.

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**About Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS)** :

CIS powers enterprises business and technology digital transformation by accelerating change, reinforcing cybersecurity, empowering employees, leading complexity, and encouraging adaptability. Working across sectors in 50 countries, our 30,000 cloud professionals apply our premier expertise with cloud leaders to offer ongoing cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, digital workplace, and enterprise service management support.

Demonstrating our close partnerships with leading cloud vendors and advanced intelligence from our global operations centers, our CIS teams are trusted by clients to securely navigate in todays wide-ranging business environments, driving forward business value so they get the future they want. Our outstanding approach to infrastructure connects solutions, services, and suppliers to implement integrated solutions across the IT supply chain, public and private clouds, and legacy environments, helping clients optimize their digital transformation journeys.

Our five key service areas are:

1. **Cloud Services** : Exploiting the cloud at speed and scale

2. **Employee Experience Services** : Making the future of work work for our clients

3. **Cybersecurity Services** : Securing Foundations to Create Open Futures

4. **Enterprise Service Management** : Taking charge of complexity to drive business value

5. **Infrastructure Services** : Leading and updating the IT estates

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**Title: Solution Director**

**Location: Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, New York City, Atlanta. GA**

**Job Description:**

**Location: Remote**

The Solutions Director is a key role in the Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) Pre-Sales organization involved in medium to large, multi-tower opportunities.

**Key responsibilities:**

Typically involved from Deal Qualification to Contract Signature, Sales to Delivery Handover and for a limited period in the execution to provide continuity

Responsible for development of the end-to-end solution (Transformation, Transition and Run) covering multiple service lines and/or technology domains

Owns internal customer management and clarity of core solution related metrics to approvers

Supports Sales Lead in pre-qualification activities, including ROM costing and early solution shaping as appropriate

Develops solution & response strategy, standard versus non-standard approach, aligned to the sales strategy. Clearly communicates to all bid team members.

Ensures all client requirements are analyzed and distributed for solutioning, without gaps or duplication

Designs the solution and ensures the relevant solution artefacts are completed in line with global process

Solid grasp of the competitor landscape, providing insight into the sales plan on how to beat competition

Provide guidance on commercially structuring deals to differentiate from the competition

Works with Deal Analyst to set up ADMT and create pricing structure; communicates structure & tagging strategy

Convert Price to Win into Cost to Win by Tower

Reviews and inputs to the contract schedules, SoW and SLA among other documents

Supports Tower Lead with 3rd parties direct engagements when needed

Chips in to proposal writing and guides the bid team on alignment to sales strategy, themes, scoring mechanism

Ensures Solution Approval in a timely manner in line with the Global Solution Approval Process and supports towers when required with their approvals providing an end-to-end view for their approvers

Leads the solution team in all client facing interactions

Supports Commercial Lead with finances of solution related schedules (SoW, SLA etc.)

Leads solution team and ensures solution related work are completed

Identifies and adds to the response and other capabilities that will bring value to the opportunity and/or show Capgemini capability

Ensures the solution and commercials are sustainable for the future, with ability to grow and upsell

Identifies and documents potential areas for upsell that have been discussed with client and handover to Account Team

**Key skills:**

Customer Engagement:

Requirement for client facing skills will vary with a Solution Lead being required past client-facing experience to a senior Solution Leads having executive client-facing experience

Able to articulate both groundbreaking deals and the managed services elements of deals

Strong presentational and social skills; ability to lead / anchor client conversations; ability to pitch at right depth to different internal/external audiences

Ability to articulate value, benefits, storyline to client

Strong writing skills

Management:

Leadership of the solution team on deal; ability to coach, steer, challenge, guide support in case of challenges or if tower lead is struggling

Strong team leader to run and coacg abd mentor through tough deadlines

Partner management, engagement and socialization; Senior solution leads have confirmed skills in handling organizational conflict across various parts of Capgemini (i.e. GBLs, BUs)

Technical/Portfolio:

Across all towers; typically, some depth within 1 or 2 towers (via previous role); ability to challenge & understand responses across the technical landscape.

Commercial:

Ability to link technical aspects of solution with commercial response,

Ability to understand contracts & schedules and ability to draft solution related contract schedules,

Risk identification, treatment and management,

Negotiate with (including with subcontractors),

Financial:

Support Client business case creation,

Support price shaping, benchmarking, pricing models

Cost analysis, drive competitiveness

Cost breakdown & what-if analysis

**Job:** _Infrastructure_

**Organization:** _CIS US_

**Title:** _Solutions Director - Pre-Sales_

**Location:** _GA-Atlanta_

**Requisition ID:** _075691_