Version1 is hiring a Remote Senior Pre-Sales Consultant
Job Description
Deal Strategy
- Supporting deal plans and deal qualification.
- Working with the sales principal, account principals and other teams and stakeholders involved in shaping deals to prepare robust (i.e., client-centred, proposition aligned, Classification: Controlled and pain point/benefit-led) deal strategies for new business, renewal, and upsell opportunities.
- Working with the sales lead and account principals to structure new business, renewal, and upsell opportunities, accelerating, where possible, the client’s buying journey.
- Facilitating the governance of new opportunities entering the pipeline to enable consistent deal qualification, ensuring the sales team focuses its time and effort on the right opportunities and recommending course-correcting actions where required.
- Generating performance reports, identifying insights and trends quarterly, including tracking buyer behaviours and trends. Bids, Presentations, and Proposals
- Writing high-quality, compelling bid and proposal content that differentiates Version 1 and articulates what and how we deliver core services and offerings, in the context of the client’s pain points and requirements.
- Creating bid and proposal documentation that adheres to Version 1 guidelines and designing new templates to improve bid and proposal content.
- Reviewing offering materials and assessing how key messages can be positioned in sales collateral and bid and proposal content.
- Incorporating key messaging (approach, pains, gains etc.) for Version 1 offerings into bid and proposal content.
- Support identification of new business opportunities, both with new and existing clients.
- Completing market scrutiny across our sector and within both new and existing clients.
- Acting as the bridge between the sales, delivery, and the Office of the CTO team, analysing, synthesizing, and presenting client feedback.
- Working with the marketing and bid enablement team to gain insight from delivery teams, unearthing useful anecdotes
Qualifications
Desired Skills / Knowledge:
- Understanding of client buyer journeys and procurement frameworks for clients in Version 1’s target sectors, including Government, Financial, Insurance, and Capital Markets
- Strong understanding of the Private Sector and/or Capital Markets
- Detailed oriented with strong written and verbal communication skills. Classification: Controlled
- Experience of creating proposals that can be adapted and tailored to a client organizations specific needs and challenges.
- Design experience to create client presentations that are visually appealing and in line with brand guidelines.
- Ability to work collaboratively across different internal departments and with engineers working in the field to capture insight for content and for bids and proposals.
- Sales governance expertise with experience in qualifying deals and driving deal conversion.
- Critical thinking and ability to challenge stakeholders.
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