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Role: Solution Specialist
Location: Any of our SCC offices - London, Birmingham, Bracknell, Manchester or Leeds (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: Competitive base salary, OTE & Car allowance plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role purpose:
This role focuses on selling IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT OperationsManagement (ITOM) solutions solutions and associated services. The successfulcandidate will be responsible for growing revenues and profitability for SCC’sSoftware Business Unit through effective selling to SCC customers and new namecustomers.
Key responsibilities:
- Achieve Targets: Meet or exceed annual gross margin targets as set by SCC at the beginning of the financial year.
- Pipeline Management: Develop and maintain a robust and accurate pipeline within SCC’s CRM system Sales Hub working in collaboration with SCC’s Branch Teams, sufficient to achieve or exceed target.
- Territory Planning: Create and execute a Territory Plan that maximises returns from customers and identifies product and solution whitespace in your territory.
- Vendor Relationships: Cultivate strong relationships with relevant vendors and vendor management teams to create co-sell opportunities and drive vendor-generated pass-through deals.
- Sales Cycle Management: Oversee key aspects of the sales cycle, from customer engagement through to deal closure and handover to delivery.
- Market Insight: Understand the competitive landscape and position SCC to win by emphasising our differentiators.
- Product/Service Evolution: Contribute to the development of product and service roadmaps by identifying repeatable customer challenges that can be profitably addressed.
- Cross-Selling: Demonstrate working knowledge of other SCC products and services to support the generation of collaborative pipelines for other divisions
Skills and experience:
- Extensive sales experience with ITSM and ITOM solutions, particularly with ServiceNow and Xurrent
- Proven ability to drive digital automation initiatives and improve service delivery efficiency.
- Familiarity with the implementation and management of ITSM and ITOM platforms, ensuring alignment with customer objectives.
- Background in working with both commercial and public sector customers.
- Knowledge of purchasing and budgeting processes to drive the sales process.
- Ability to communicate compelling responses to customer challenges both verbally and in writing.
- Expertise in leveraging ITSM and ITOM tools to streamline processes and enhance operational efficiency.
- Strong understanding of digital automation practices and their application in IT service delivery.
- Possesses a systematic approach to building, expanding, and deepening customer relationships.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills