Sales Manager

**Sales Manager**:

- Publication Date: Oct 10, 2024- Ref. No: 521961- Location: Riyadh, SA, 12214**Who we are.**
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**Role Overview**:
**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Business Generation & Expansion**: Drive new business opportunities while supporting and expanding existing client accounts, particularly in the **financial** or **public sector**.
- **Sales Targets & Pipeline Development**: Take full responsibility for incoming orders, sales growth, and maintaining a healthy sales pipeline. Ensure consistent achievement of sales and revenue targets.
- **Client Relationship Management**: Establish and nurture strong relationships with key decision-makers and stakeholders within targeted sectors. Act as a trusted advisor to clients, understanding their needs and aligning Atos solutions accordingly.
- **Offer Process Management**: Lead the planning, coordination, and implementation of the entire offer process, incorporating all relevant customer information and requirements.
- **Internal Approval & Bid Management**: Actively participate in the internal approval processes. Collaborate with **pre-sales** and other **delivery units** to assess opportunities, risks, and craft winning proposals.
- **Contract Negotiation**: Organize and lead contract negotiations, providing solution-oriented responses to customer inquiries and needs, while ensuring alignment with approved offer frameworks.
- **CRM & Pipeline Maintenance**: Accurately map and maintain business opportunities and pipeline data in Atos' CRM system, ensuring transparency and up-to-date information.
- **Market & Customer Analysis**: Conduct regular analysis of the market, customers, and competitors. Provide insightful reporting on business development progress and create qualified decision-making templates.
- **Campaign Participation**: Initiate and participate in the execution of sales and marketing campaigns to drive awareness and generate new business opportunities.

**Experience**:

- **10-12 years** of experience in **sales, business development**, within the information technology sector, with a focus on **project, solution, or product sales**.
- Proven experience working with **system integrators** and managing clients in either the **financial** or **public sector**.

**Educational Background**:

- Bachelor’s degree in **Computer Science**, **Information Technology**, or a related field.
- **Technical Knowledge**:

- Strong technical understanding of **information and communication technologies** and experience designing flexible, cross-portfolio solutions based on customer needs.
- **Target-Oriented**:

- Ability to set, track, and exceed sales targets, with a structured and goal-oriented approach to managing client engagements and business opportunities.
- **Leadership & Collaboration**:

- Experience in informal leadership, managing interdisciplinary teams for complex projects and bids. Leadership experience is a plus.
- **Customer-Focused**:

- Strong customer orientation with a high level of initiative and lateral thinking to design creative solutions for clients.
- **Communication Skills**:

- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with a proven ability to engage both internal and external stakeholders in a clear and target-oriented manner.
- **Bid Management**:

- Competence in bid management, preparation of proposals, and coordination of resources across internal departments.

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