Cloud Sales Executive at Ericsson

Job summary

• You will be the driving force behind a tremendous sales acceleration of IT Cloud solutions to a select customer / small group of customers.
• The focal point in all business development and sales initiatives directed at building, consolidating, optimizing and transforming the cloud operations and infrastructure of your customer base.
• Your scope cuts across all cloud service models (IaaS-PaaS-SaaS), architectures (Private-Public-Hybrid) and nature of workloads (Enterprise, Business Support Systems and Media).
• The successful candidate will combine a ferocious appetite to develop business; an exceptional acumen in technical, business, market and operational aspects of cloud; and a keen interest to actively develop her organization’s capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Secure sales targets
• Seek and qualify leads: conduct in-depth 360° discussions to take stock of the customer business and technology environments, requirements, plans & issues; secure participation in relevant procurement processes (e.g., RFXs)
• Mobilize organization to pursue opportunities: decompose opportunity situation and develop pursuit plans anchored on compelling events to act now; provide structure, clear directions and objectives for engagement teams to act
• Lead sales engagements: lead direct and indirect, virtual/cross-functional teams, seeking assistance within a large, complex organization on proposals, offer development, demos, proofs of concepts, strategy development, 3rd party solutions, etc.; lead responses to procurement processes (e.g., RFXs)
• Close sales: maintain a continuously updated 360° map of “what is needed to close the business”; early and clear articulation of case towards own stakeholders;  secure all of the company’s strengths, capabilities and possibilities to secure business on “D-day”
• Own and manage a 48 months sales funnel that secures a significantly growing business
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of Ericsson’s positioning vs. competition in any given situation through research, industry contacts, personal networks, etc.
• Drive knowledge transfer and thought leadership: secure knowledge continuity through immediately-near individuals; active high level participation in global re-use and knowledge sharing

Basic Qualifications
Cloud domain:

• Thorough knowledge of cloud economics: TCO and commercial models, their cost structure and value drivers; make buy analysis
• Relevant real life experience with bimodal IT operations: procuring, selling, implementing, utilizing and/or operating such infrastructures - private and/or hybrid
• Expertise on at least three of the following five cloud stack elements: Hardware / Software Defined Infrastructure, Data Storage, Data / Application Platform, Security, Data Center Facilities
• Expertise on processes and interventions to build, consolidate and optimize cloud operations; and/or to transform data centers into highly available cloud platforms
• Fluent in the ITIL/ITSM framework, agile methodologies and DevOps practices
• Knowledgeable about the most relevant industry players, offers and dynamics: infrastructure, professional services and XaaS
• Bachelor of Business Administration, Science or similar
• Substantial in-field experience from sales/solutions at Ericsson or equivalent
• Experience from working in the field with customers

Superior soft skills across the board:

• Entrepreneurial & Commercial thinking: ambitious, self-driven, go-getter, risk-taker, persuader and influencer, persistent, action oriented, change driver, opinionated (“my business!”)
• Solutions-focused: curious, positive, collaborative, issues into possibilities
• Consultative skills: establish credibility; explore requirements; plan in view of interests, ambitions and possibilities; handshake engagement; deliver on it
• Organizational awareness: establish power-base mapping to sensibly act and plan in accordance
• Superior presentation / communication skills: purposeful structure, crisp content (less is more), actionable delivery
• Maintains good rapport and demonstrates leadership and teamwork in cross-functional teams.