Principal Solution Architect

Descripción de la oferta

3084124
City

Malaga
Career Level

Experienced
Relocation Assistance

No
Business

GE Digital
Business Segment

Digital Services
Function

Sales
Country/Territory

Spain
Postal Code

29004
Role Summary/Purpose

The Sr. Solutions Manager will be responsible for driving professional services sales and software orders. S/he will drive key activities to secure services revenue including collaboration with sales team, services consulting, scoping, estimation and proposal generation using value selling techniques and best practices.
Essential Responsibilities

·  Team to provide services support to software license sales that meets and exceeds monthly, quarterly and annual sales goals 
·  Establish a deep understanding of customers’ business needs by creating value to customers for our solution footprint. 
·  Add value to the customer’s business and maintain a goal oriented approach to the business partnership. 
·  Demonstrate to customers how they benefit by partnering with GE and how our solutions deliver results. 
·  Aggressively develop and drive a sustainable commercial and solution strategy across multiple customer divisions and geographic poles that is aligned to the agreed account goals. 
·  Ensure a Professional Sales Experience for customers during all aspects of sales process and touch points including: Formal meeting agendas, formal follow-up stating sequence of events and next steps in writing, and issue resolution in a timely fashion. 
·  Formulates the winning proposals based on a cohesive strategy that leverages deep knowledge of industry, customer and GE product. 
·  Create a “trusted solution advisor” relationship with our customer’s business and internal technical teammates 
·  Drive key customer facing meetings and events, particularly C level discussions 
·  Directly engage with Regional Leader, Channel Partners and customers in top strategic deals, sales meeting and thought leadership opportunities (e.g. Sales Roadshows and Industry Events) - raising the business level acumen of the Global Solution organization by being a trusted advisor to the account manager, partners and customer to validate business value. 
·  Input into product development strategy by documenting and sharing customer requirements to product management to guarantee the visibility to support market demands 
·  Input into strategy of Services offerings evaluation and expansion to meet market and customer evolving demands  
·  Ensure compliance to the GE Global Solution processes for best practice usage deliver the following: 
·  Scoping approach and tools to drive towards customer outcomes  
·  Creative customer centric solutions that are aligned with customer ROI targets and resource constraints  
·  Implementation Solution Proposals that connect the dots between outcomes, solutions to deliver these outcomes and KPIs/metrics to measure success. Best practice Proposals include: 
·  Application landscape 
·  Integration solution architecture 
·  Business processes 
·  Timeline 
·  Estimates 
·  Statement of Work 
·  Best practices approach to leveraging our product roadmaps to close deals
Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications: 

·  Bachelor’s Degree in business or technical equivalent 
·  An experience in the Software industry is important to be successful in this role 
·  Significant experience in commercial services or software sales 

Eligibility Requirements: 

·  Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation 
·  Must be able to travel 50% -/+ of the time globally  
Desired Characteristics

·  Fluency in German would be a requirement - candidates based in Singapore/Australia are NOT required to speak German 
·  Proven experience in a combination of professional services presales and software delivery including enterprise and global deployments. 
·  Prior technical experience with ERP and/or Supply chain solutions, Salesforce and/or force.com platform 
·  Highly motivated and passionate self-starter 
·  Innovated thinker who is able to blend technology and business strategy to develop compelling solution proposals 
·  Ability to negotiate skillfully in tough situations; can gain concessions without damaging relationship; have a “win – win” philosophy 
·  Prescriptive in recommending solution architectures and implementation approach to enhance delivery of solution mapping of the GE software portfolio 
Technical Expertise:  

·  Able to consult customer on alignment of outcomes and desired technical solutions at a global enterprise level; Analyzes, designs, and develops a software solution roadmap and implementation plan based upon a current vs. future state of the business. 
·  Knowledgeable of full range of solution catalog within a business unit and able to discuss overall solution at depth. 
·  Proactively identifies and communicates pipeline risks and develops mitigation plans, proactively shares ‘best practice’ to improve pipeline efficiency.  
·  Able to lead early stage customer interactions; Guide customers as they develop confidence and comfort with GE software and solutions 
·  Understands the strengths and weaknesses of the competitive offerings and can discuss  Business Acumen: 

·  Effectively manages and closes complex sales cycles from business champion to c-suite (CIO/CEO) level 
·  Proven ability to articulate value to business and technical LOB stakeholders  
·  Creates meaningful stories and combines ideas in unique ways and makes connections between disparate ideas.; Communicates functional strategy and roadmap with sufficient detail for teams to utilize; Describes functional area information to leaders.  
·  Establishes, maintains, and grows key executive relationships within customer accounts; Adept at navigating political and hierarchical landscape and facilitates the customer decision making process.

Leadership:  
·  Demonstrate working knowledge of GE’s internal organization within primary industry vertical BU; Knows where / how strategic and commercial decisions are made. 
·  Foresees obstacles, identifies workarounds, leverages resources and able to rally teammates.  
·  Demonstrates ability to work with blended teams, including 3rd party partners and customer personnel.  Personal Attributes: 

·  Develops executive relationships and ensures knowledge of GE’s capabilities are understood; identifies the challenges faced by their customers; presents in a manner that conveys expertise and intuition; Demonstrates strong listening skills; Quickly provides answers to customer inquiries when information regarding the customers’ business may not be available.  
·  Can express opposing views while simultaneously working through disagreements toward clarity, consensus (i.e., comfortable pushing back, saying ‘No’ to colleagues when further review / discussion is justified, particularly, Sales counterparts). 
·  Demonstrates complete transparency in everything one does, does the right thing instead of an acting with an ulterior motive; Exhibits subordination for the good of the principals; Values of the effort for the customer and ours.

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