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Reporting to the Vice President, Global Strategic Customers - Elevate, the mission of the Director - EMEA Strategic Engagements (Large Deal Pursuits) is to drive ServiceNow’s long-term revenue growth and profitability through larger and more strategic transactions across our EMEA business. The leader will act as an in-region deal expert, responsible for driving end-to-end deal strategy, developing creative commercial structures, and leading complex negotiations for our most strategic deals.
The Director - EMEA Strategic Engagements (Large Deal Pursuits) will help define and follow a consistent programmatic approach to help the regional sales organizations and cross-functional deal execution teams to close some of our most complex and strategic deals. The role will utilize collaborative account planning, out-quarter pipeline development, opportunity review cadences, deal coaching and choreography, and thought leadership, to maximize market opportunity and accelerate the sales cycle to close larger deals successfully.
The Director - EMEA Strategic Engagements (Large Deal Pursuits) will become an expert in the contractual aspects of ServiceNow’s business, and be able to articulate value and structure long-term, complex, multi-product agreements to enable presentation of the right deal to the customer.
The role also contributes to continuous improvement efforts for the Strategic Engagements team and participates in ServiceNow’s overall transformation effort to establish the best Enterprise salesforce in the industry.
Priorities & Responsibilities
Drive large and complex strategic deals: validate and engage on opportunities where we intend to build > $10M+ NNACV opportunities, tracking deal progression, and escalating risks/needs to senior leaders as needed
Champion all collaborative, integrated GTM activities for our Strategic Accounts, including account planning sessions, strategic pursuits, WIN Forums, review cadences or other GTM activities
Drive big deal thinking and best practice sharing across the strategic engagements team (deal structures, operational opportunities, references and content on attractive themes like Digital Transformation or Artificial Intelligence)
In partnership with the Account Executive, serve as a primary point of contact for the Customer from deal qualification through close
Be the voice of the field sales to corporate to continually improve and ensure successful outcomes for our most strategic customers
Represent ServiceNow in senior customer facing roles as sponsor, strategist and negotiator
Extensive experience in the software industry
5 + years of consultative direct sales experience into Enterprise accounts, preferably selling SaaS and with progressive client-facing responsibilities
Consistent and proven experience in Large Deal or Corporate Strategy/Business Development experience, supporting complex transactions such as M&A, IP Acquisition, Revenue Share Models, etc. a plus
Conversant in all emerging trends in IT and Business
Demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
Team player of unquestionable integrity, credibility, and character
Experience within a large organization; ability to quickly establish trust-based relationships internally to get support for customer sales objectives
Strong leadership, problem solving, and decision-making abilities
Ability to interface and negotiate with senior client executives
Excellent presentation and communication skills
Organizational and analytical skills
International work experience
Continuous improvement and growth mindset
Measure of success
Large & complex closed deals > $10M +
Customer Feedback & NPS
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