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Business Development Manager: IOT Products & Services )
Posting Country: South Africa
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
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Role Purpose
The Business Development Manager: IoT Products & Services role is based in the Enterprise Business Unit (Vodacom Business)
The purpose of the role of the Business Development Manager – IoT Products & Services:
- To drive successful sales penetration and growth of Unified Communications Key Propositions across sector channels and deliver new business and profitability targets.
- To provide thought leadership to engage new clients and exceed expectations based on constructing and delivering a winning proposition and customer business cases for enterprise business customers.
- To work alongside client directors and client managers to evangilize capability/opportunity and then identify approach, construct and conclude winning bids.
- To provide input into deal shaping and evangelising innovative business models to fast track the profitable consumptions of Unified Communication products and the Vodacom’s greater portfolio
Your responsibilities will include:
Key accountabilities & decision ownership:
- Working with relationship owners to provide consultative client engagement and thought leadership in defining and driving sales activity for demand generation and winning propositions
- Leverage relationship with product management to jointly define and drive ‘focus propositions’ to pro-actively develop incremental business opportunity
- Work with the sales team to provide product, business and technical knowledge on identified opportunities
- Lead competitive learning by market research, evaluating competitor products, programmes, weaknesses, strenghts, strategies and then educating key internal stakholders to develop competitive solutions.
Key performance indicators:
- Develop an understanding of Vodacom’s fixed and mobile convergence propositions and the ability to articulate Vodacom’s sustainable competitive advantage in this regard
- Provide client and market led input into product strategy
- Maintain up to date understanding of industry trends and technical developments that affect the market
The ideal candidate will have:
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
- Analytical Skills,
- Interpersonal Skills,
- Strong verbal and written
- Communication Skills
- Negotiation Skills
- Customer Focus
- Tactical and Strategic
Technical and Professional Qualifications
- Matric
- 3 year degree in Business Management, BCom or Computer Science or an equivalent qualification
- A minimum of 3 years proven track record in IoT Products and Services pre-sales and solution development
- A minimum of 5 years of proven track record of developing and effectively implementing sales solutions to meet the Business and Clients needs and drive business results for and/or within the ICT Industry
- Extensive and strong business acumen with a deep strategic perspective and ablity to quickly understand business strategy.
Closing date for Applications: 11 June 2020 The base location for this role is,Vodacom Campus, Midrand
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.
Commitment from Vodacom
Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences – we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.
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