Your Key Responsibilities
As a Senior Deal Specialist, you will be responsible for:
- Managing the execution of the pursuit process, including critical path, timeline, and interdependencies.
- Assessing competitive situations and helping develop differentiated win strategies focused on client priorities while protecting our firm's interests.
- Developing power maps and tactics to navigate client buying processes.
- Providing guidance to the extended pursuit team through structured sales approaches and proposal development.
- Collaborating with the pursuit team to define, package, and articulate compelling client offers across scope, solution, price, and terms.
- Planning storylines and key messages, and preparing the extended team for orals.
Skills and Attributes for Success
To succeed in this role, you should possess:
- 5+ years of relevant experience in pursuits, business development, marketing or project management, preferably in a professional services environment and have already supported a minimum of 7 complex deals.
- Proven communications and proposal writing experience.
- Excellent project management and organizational skills with high attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – Business level Japanese and English.
- Good understanding of pursuits for technology implementation such as SAP S4 Hana, ServiceNow and Microsoft.
- Good understanding of pursuits which include Managed Services, Outsourcing and Cloud Technology solutions.
- The ability to influence and direct others effectively.
- Self-motivation, resourcefulness, and the ability to work independently with limited supervision.
- A strong understanding of the business development and/or pursuit environment.
- Understanding of fundamental deal commercial and negotiation principles.
- Executive presence and gravitas.
What We Look For
We are looking for individuals who:
- Demonstrate deal acumen and are conversant in key principles of pricing for value, deal commercials, and negotiations.
- Exhibit versatility and poise in a constantly evolving environment with a wide variety of social styles and interests.
- Are solution-oriented and make sound recommendations and decisions.
- Champion best-practice pursuit tools and processes while remaining open to new and better ways of doing things when appropriate.
- Build collaborative relationships
- Share lessons learned, best practices, and innovations from pursuits and other experiences with teammates and the broader community.