Client Partner (TX)

*MUST be close to/located in either Houston, Austin or Dallas area and have experience managing multi-million dollar accounts within the IT Services industry.

Job Profile Summary

Client Partners are Business Development Leaders who establish themselves as experts 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 the client’s strategic goals/challenges to SoftServe’s suite of service offerings for increased account revenue and wallet share through the 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 increase account revenue and wallet share
• Use personal expertise to uncover clients’ known and unknown needs and goals, communicate and persuasively deliver the value proposition for all the services offered by SoftServe, and 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 the client side.
• Be an active member of our Client Partner Community, participate in the development of your own capabilities (assessment and development planning activities, formal/informal training, external professional accreditation)
• Expected to embrace our Company Values, as a SoftServian you are committed to promoting and supporting a work environment built upon cooperation and respect for one another
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to support the 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

• New product & partnership offerings so SoftServe is a compelling solution for our client’s business problems
• Consultative Sales or Customer management with an emphasis on account revenue growth working with Enterprise or large ISV clients
• Strong understanding of IT Consulting and software development terms and concepts, technology, external regulation, and industry best practices.
• Working in a fast-paced environment
• Working with multi-cultural and geographically disbursed teams
• Building a trusted rapport with clients, influencing decision-making, and working across executive and operational levels on IT and business side
• Tracking multiple customers and managing legal processes (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

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Information Technology, Business, or related discipline). Advanced degrees are a plus
• Relevant certifications in client success/relationship, project management, or leadership (e.g., CBRM, CSAP, ITIL, PMP, etc.) are advantageous

Other Requirements

• Willingness to travel a minimum of 30% to the client and team locations (clients located in Austin, Dallas and Houston)
• Strong commitment to client success, driving business growth through client partnerships
• Collaborative, honest, hard worker