Business Value Director driving customer value methodology in Hybrid Cloud solutions at Red Hat. Leading strategic sales initiatives for defense sectors in European NATO member states.
Responsibilities
Build the Red Hat Value Practice
Collaboratively define the vision of customer value across the entire Red Hat customer lifecycle and the value community
Build and execute strategies to establish a comprehensive value community partnering with internal teams (BD, professional services etc.)
Establish and evolve a Red Hat value framework and deliverables to help sell the value across the portfolio and scale across customer segments
Create a knowledge base including a library of reusable value assets, including value maps, benefit models, benchmarking, templates, tools etc.
CXO Customer Advisory on ROI and Business Value Achievement
Directly engage with customer executive teams, helping articulate the strategic and financial impact of Red Hat’s digital transformation message to accelerate Sales cycles
Develop C-level account strategies, ROI investment justifications, deal structures, commercial proposals, and value realization analysis
Serve as a key source of market insights into how our customers view the economic benefit of using Red Hat relative to on-prem or competition
Identify, lead and contribute to the creation of thought leadership (best practices, white papers, workshops, etc.) for pipeline building
Sales and Customer Success Counsel
Act as a trusted advisor to regional Sales management by providing guidance on account strategies and helping prioritize Sales pursuits
Manage relationships with regional Sales and Customer Success leadership to build effective enterprise Sales best practices
Enable Sales teams to elevate their executive discussions by facilitating value-focused discovery and delivering business value impact analysis
Requirements
Strong domain expertise in the NATO defence space, with proven experience with defense partner eco system and armed forces.
10+ years of detailed business case development, ROI / TCO financial modeling and executive storytelling experience
Strong experience in the European or British Defense industry, including a deep understanding of the economics and decision process in Defense Ministries and Defence Engineering companies
Strong experience in Management Consulting and consultative sales approach
Strong skills in developing executive narrative slideware with inputs from multiple internal stakeholders at times
Experience engaging with C-level executives and complex internal stakeholder groups
Preference for familiarity with selling complex solutions or transformation programs in the cloud infrastructure or platform space
Preference for fluency in a European language addition to English language
Strong program management and communication skills
Presentation skills including public speaking, meeting facilitation, and whiteboarding
Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree in business administration is a plus
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