Solutions Director - Pre-Sales_

Irving

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**Title: Solution Director**

**Location: Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, New York City, Atlanta. GA**

**Job Description:**

**Location: Remote**

The Solutions Director is a key role in the Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) Pre-Sales organization involved in medium to large, multi-tower opportunities.

**Key responsibilities:**

+ Typically involved from Deal Qualification to Contract Signature, Sales to Delivery Handover and for a limited period in the execution to provide continuity

+ Responsible for development of the end-to-end solution (Transformation, Transition and Run) covering multiple service lines and/or technology domains

+ Owns internal customer management and clarity of core solution related metrics to approvers

+ Supports Sales Lead in pre-qualification activities, including ROM costing and early solution shaping as appropriate

+ Develops solution & response strategy, standard versus non-standard approach, aligned to the sales strategy. Clearly communicates to all bid team members.

+ Ensures all client requirements are analyzed and distributed for solutioning, without gaps or duplication

+ Designs the solution and ensures the relevant solution artefacts are completed in line with global process

+ Solid grasp of the competitor landscape, providing insight into the sales plan on how to beat competition

+ Provide guidance on commercially structuring deals to differentiate from the competition

+ Works with Deal Analyst to set up ADMT and create pricing structure; communicates structure & tagging strategy

+ Convert Price to Win into Cost to Win by Tower

+ Reviews and inputs to the contract schedules, SoW and SLA among other documents

+ Supports Tower Lead with 3rd parties’ direct engagements when needed

+ Chips in to proposal writing and guides the bid team on alignment to sales strategy, themes, scoring mechanism

+ Ensures Solution Approval in a timely manner in line with the Global Solution Approval Process and supports towers when required with their approvals providing an end-to-end view for their approvers

+ Leads the solution team in all client facing interactions

+ Supports Commercial Lead with finances of solution related schedules (SoW, SLA etc.)

+ Leads solution team and ensures solution related work are completed

+ Identifies and adds to the response and other capabilities that will bring value to the opportunity and/or show Capgemini capability

+ Ensures the solution and commercials are sustainable for the future, with ability to grow and upsell

+ Identifies and documents potential areas for upsell that have been discussed with client and handover to Account Team

**Key skills:**

Customer Engagement:

+ Requirement for client facing skills will vary with a Solution Lead being required past client-facing experience to a senior Solution Leads having executive client-facing experience

+ Able to articulate both groundbreaking deals and the managed services elements of deals

+ Strong presentational and social skills; ability to lead / anchor client conversations; ability to pitch at right depth to different internal/external audiences

+ Ability to articulate value, benefits, storyline to client

+ Strong writing skills

Management:

+ Leadership of the solution team on deal; ability to coach, steer, challenge, guide – support in case of challenges or if tower lead is struggling

+ Strong team leader to run and coacg abd mentor through tough deadlines

+ Partner management, engagement and socialization; Senior solution leads have confirmed skills in handling organizational conflict across various parts of Capgemini (i.e. GBLs, BUs)

Technical/Portfolio:

+ Across all towers; typically, some depth within 1 or 2 towers (via previous role); ability to challenge & understand responses across the technical landscape.

Commercial:

+ Ability to link technical aspects of solution with commercial response,

+ Ability to understand contracts & schedules and ability to draft solution related contract schedules,

+ Risk identification, treatment and management,

+ Negotiate with (including with subcontractors),

Financial:

+ Support Client business case creation,

+ Support price shaping, benchmarking, pricing models

+ Cost analysis, drive competitiveness

+ Cost breakdown & what-if analysis

**Job:** _Infrastructure_

**Organization:** _CIS US_

**Title:** _Solutions Director - Pre-Sales_

**Location:** _TX-Irving_

**Requisition ID:** _076145_