Business Development Executive Public Sector

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.
Role:
Business Development Executive Public Sector
Location:
London (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type:
Permanent
Salary Package:
£65,000
plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours:
9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday
Interview Process:
3
-stage process
Why SCC?

• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life-long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company

Role Purpose

• Developing and closing new business opportunities within current and net new target customers in aligned vertical to achieve set annual gross margin target. Develop and execute against a new business territory strategy, driving business across all SCC products and services.

Key Responsibilities

• Prospecting and qualifying new business target customers or new revenue lines within existing new business customers. Articulates the customer challenge and create a joint plan with the BU's to propose suitable solutions for the client and drive a blend of Product and Services in line with the companies set vision.
• Identify, create, develop and campaign sales opportunities based on customer and or market insights, fully qualified to align to the client's strategy, objectives and challenges.
• Provide Campaign leadership: Lead and orchestrate virtual internal and external teams on all sales opportunities.
• Maintain, expand and build engagement of vendors and partners within the account base, managing these engagements to drive sales growth and rate of margin.
• Perform account relationship profiling, development and creation of an effective engagement plan in SalesHub. Undertake regular campaign and opportunity planning to maximise sales effectiveness in line with the plan. Take accountability of the activities performed by the virtual team to build close plans to retire the aligned target and meet the ratio of services and product.
• To work effectively with SCC solution experts in defining the right proposition for a specific client requirement.
• Build and manage a 'rolling pipeline' of new business opportunities, demonstrate robust qualification to ensure high deal closure percentages are delivered. Maintain an accurate and timely forecast in SalesHub. Create, maintain and grow associated contacts, campaigns and customer data. Build out effective marketing plans to address the target customers, sectors, or regions to drive in year margin.
• To effectively manage, grow and maintain customer relationships at all levels and appropriate departments within the customer/s and orchestrate senior SCC Executive engagement into your customers.
• Identification of Opportunity and Risk to SCC – both operational, commercial and legal. Taking into consideration the financial imperatives within SCC in relation to all sales opportunities within the designated accounts. For example, using Payment Solutions to maximise the in-year margin contribution for SCC.
• Develop knowledge of aligned industry vertical, utilising this knowledge to generate specific propositions and messaging to enhance customer traction and opportunity creation.

Skills And Experience

• Demonstrable technology infrastructure and services sales experience and proven success driving enterprise size projects into FTSE500 and / or Public Sector organisations with framework experience.
• Extensive technology and services knowledge aligned to business outcomes and can articulate this well whilst communicating effectively with the client at all levels.
• Proven experience of selling IT Consulting, Professional and Managed Services and/or Software and Hardware, in terms End user and Enterprise class solutions.
• High level of business and commercial awareness with a proven record of successful negotiation at senior levels.
• Proven track record of incremental new business wins, whist demonstrating continued and sustainable growth within previous client engagements.
• Demonstrable experience of creating and executing territory sales strategy.

About Us
SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

We are an equal opportunities employer
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.
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