Strategic Growth Director

2 weeks ago


Oxford Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Viable Data Ltd Full time

About us

Viable Data is an innovative technology, data and UX consultancy, delivering excellence through our projects and providing our people with a supportive culture and opportunities for growth and continuous learning.

We thrive on the challenge of working across different projects, user needs and technologies and our teams and people live this every day. Our people-first approach and culture is central to our growing success as a consultancy.

We are an all-inclusive equal opportunities employer and proudly celebrate diversity. If you thrive on challenge, have a passion to learn and make a difference, and enjoy being part of a growing multidisciplinary team, look no further and start your Viable career, now.

In line with the commitments we have made in our Armed Forces Covenant, we recognise the contribution that serving and ex-service personnel, reservists, veterans, the cadet movement and military families make to our organisation, our community and the country. We actively seek opportunities to support and develop people who join us from these communities and we’re proud to have received the Defence Employer Scheme Bronze Award.

About you

As a customer facing Strategic Growth Director at Viable Data, you will work within the sales strategy set by the Business Unit Director. You will be working independently and be responsible for creating a strategic roadmap for new avenues into the Law Enforcement/Security sector. This will include researching policy and competitor information to position Viable Data in bringing the most value in solving the Defence sector’s problems using technology, people and process.

This means that the role will be varied in its content but largely focused on winning new business within Law Enforcement/Security.

This role is hybrid with expensed business essential travel approximately 50%.

Due to the nature of work, you must be willing to undergo and be capable of achieving SC Clearance with further DV Clearance in the future and you must be UK based with British Citizenship/ILR/ Settled Status.

Key responsibilities

  • Understanding the competitive landscape, government policies, legislation and strategy and align to Viable Data’s offerings. 
  • Own the opportunity life cycle, including, prospecting, qualification, scoping, negotiating, delivering and supporting. 
  • Managing your own pipeline and monthly revenue forecasting against your own formulated growth plan.
  • Bid Leadership & Management – ensuring bids are shaped, strategised and positioned for success with key win themes, in collaboration with Viable Data team members.
  • Identify key growth opportunities, defining a programmatic approach to demand-to-generate, develop, and expand your account.
  • Managing customer relationships and building out key contacts, to include senior C-suite and equivalent, stakeholders.
  • Build relationships within client leadership teams and work to understand internal and external factors influencing their strategy.
  • Delivering profitability through effective strategy, pricing and positioning.
  • Facilitating meetings to efficiently achieve objectives.
  • Utilise story telling techniques to influence customers into using our services.
  • Pursuing sales leads through networking and relationship building.
  • Managing your quota to achieve annual team goals.
  • Using Benefit/Value Led Selling and consultative skills to highlight the benefit of Viable Data’s services.

Skills and experience needed

  • Understanding of consultancy-based business, to include independently creating and implementing a strategy of selling services into defence.
  • Polished presentation skills and the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross functional audiences.
  • Organisation, time management and collaboration skills, being able to influence and build rapport.
  • Highly effective influencing and negotiation skills.
  • Confidence in being able to disagree with a Stakeholder to offer a better solution
  • Commercial and Financial awareness to ensure profitability.

As well as providing a great place to work that has an amazing culture and the opportunity to work on excellent projects where you will really make a difference, we have a whole host of additional employee benefits.

Our benefits package includes:

  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Flexible hours and supportive of remote working
  • A Green Energy incentive
  • Buy or sell annual leave
  • Volunteering day
  • A discount portal through Perkbox

Compensation package:

  • Salary Negotiable + Revenue based commission+ Company pension contributions
  • Annual bonus based on company performance
  • 25 days leave + Bank holidays
  • 5 days dedicated training allowance, with individual budget
  • Personal Development programme, with 6-month review cycles
  • Choice of company laptop (MacBook or Windows)

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