Client Partner (Energy & Utilities)

***Candidates must be located near Houston,TX***

Job Profile Summary

The Client Partner in our Utilities division is a Business Development Leader who establish themselves as an expert and business allies to their clients. With a mixture of advocacy and inquiry skills, the Client Partner provides maximum value in every sales interaction. They leverage industry knowledge, challenge assumptions, ask difficult questions, bring insight and provide solutions to their client’s specific business afflictions and aspirations. Customers will include a range of mid-tier companies, enterprise, and multinational corporates. Client Partners seek to uncover new opportunities and connect client’s strategic goals/challenges to SoftServe’s suite of service offerings for increased account revenue and wallet share through creation of new sales opportunities.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead business development activities, develop new opportunities in existing client(s), and achieve sales booking and billing targets.
• Develop and maintain a Key Account Plan to lead a comprehensive account strategy based on a deep understanding of the client’s pain points and goals. Build and grow relationships with relevant decision-makers that results in increased account revenue and wallet share.
• Use personal expertise to uncover client’s known and unknown needs and goals, communicate and persuasively deliver the value proposition for all of the services offered by SoftServe, empowered to present a clear rationale to gain the customer's agreement.
• Facilitate the opportunity and proposal management activities; ask relevant questions, exhibit genuine curiosity, evaluate the level of interest, identify areas requiring further information and facilitate follow-up sessions with client to monitor progress.
• As the customer champion you collaborate in cross-functional teams to build strong relationships - team up with account execs on accounts that will be added to your portfolio, lead account development activities with the customer as well as Partner teams, liaise with services teams to understand customer's business goals, project goals and success for effective cooperation.
• Achieve superior NPS scores with clients - Provide input into Client participation in SS NPS process, monitor customer satisfaction at each stakeholder level, and initiate changes needed to increase satisfaction - Provide leadership
• Build trust, expand network and reputation with clients at all appropriate levels, including senior technology and business executives to drive and execute an effective account growth strategy.
• Ensure quality data (CRM) to enable effective customer retention and business development activities, identifying and resolving issues.
• Ensure operational compliance through a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies, target APMs for accounts and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, and ensure own work adheres to required standards. Understand major IT infrastructure and Security requirements at client side.
• Be an active member of our Client Partner Community, participate in development of your own capabilities (assessment and development planning activities, formal/informal trainings, external professional accreditation).
• Expected to embrace our Company Values, as a SoftServian you are committed to promoting and supporting a work environment built upon mutual cooperation and respect for one another.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to support timeliness of invoice processing. Leverage client relationships to prompt facilitation of payment, as deemed appropriate.
• Crisis resolution (strategizing, approving, communicating, overall support, etc.)

Preferred Competencies & Experience

• Previous Consultative Sales or Customer management with an emphasis on account revenue growth working with Enterprise or large Energy clients.
• Strong understanding of IT Consulting and software development terms and concepts, technology, external regulation, and industry best practices.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience of working with multi-cultural and geographically disbursed teams.
• Experience in building a trusted rapport with clients, influence decision making and work across executive and operational levels on IT and Business side
• Experience in tracking multiple Customers and manage legal process (i.e., contract renewals, negotiations, NDA, etc.)

Required Skills

• Self-driven and highly motivated to excel.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Information Technology, Business, or related discipline). Advanced degrees are a plus.

Certifications: Relevant certifications in client success/relationship, project management, or leadership (e.g., CBRM, CSAP, ITIL, PMP, etc.) are advantageous.

This posting includes an anticipated salary range that SoftServe expects to offer for this position. The range provided reflects the base salary only. Final compensation within this range will be determined based on a number of factors, including, but not limited to: geographic location, relevant experience, education, certifications, skills, budget, and market conditions.

The anticipated salary range for this role is $123,000.00 – $183,000.00 USD annually, in line with our internal compensation framework and budget allocation for the role. Most candidates are offered a salary within this disclosed range. If the role is eligible for a variable pay plan, this would be considered separately and may provide additional earnings beyond the base salary range reflected here.

Please note, the information provided in this posting is a general summary and may not include all compensation elements or benefits associated with the position.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or protected veteran status. SoftServe is an Equal Opportunity Employer.