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VP, GSI is responsible for defining and leading an Account Team during the various stages of the Deal Cycle.  The individual will participate in various portions of the following phases:  Strategy, Deal Structuring, Negotiations and Closure. 

Strategy:  

• Work with the Account Teams on key strategic deals.   

• Lead or support the execution of the deal setting objectives and analyse key corporate data (such as Corporate reports, Board Members, eco-system).   

• Formulate, set, and manage strategy with account team to accelerate sales cycle 

• Confirm key decision makers and their decision-making process 

• Identify key levers to create compelling event to drive closure 

• Advise and discuss competitive positioning 

Deal Structuring 

• Understand the business objectives and will lead or support the account team to create a deal structure that maximizes the value of the opportunity and achieving IFS’s business objectives.   

• Prepares the Bill of Materials, Cash Flows and other documents supporting the optimal structure.   

• Coordinate the various internal IFS stakeholders (e.g., Revenue Recognition, Pricing, Legal) to gather data and obtain approvals for the deal structures.     

• Advise and construct optimal commercial structure addressing competition and customer requests while preserving revenue recognition and IFS value 

• Create existing landscape overview 

• Lead or support presentation of proposal to customer 

• Develop strategy for pricing and discount structure to maximize value 

• Analyze and confirm scope of Bill of Materials 

• Formulate competitive financial models (e.g. cash flow, NPV, deal comparisons, etc.) to use as comparative tools to grow opportunity 

Negotiations:   

• Experience in coordinating internal stakeholders to support the account teams during the ongoing customer negotiations, including commercial aspects of the deal structure. 

• Understands issues pertaining to Revenue Recognition, Pricing, Commercial and Legal, in order to secure optimal results and deal execution. 

• Lead or support negotiations of terms and conditions of Software License and Services Agreement 

• Finalize internal proposal approval 

• Facilitate release of proposal/contracts 

• Define joint close plan 

• Coordinate various IFS Teams (e.g. RevRec, Contracts, Pricing, Finance) for deal involvement and input/evaluation 

• 3rd party negotiators experience 

Closure:   

• Able to lead or support final closure of contractual/legal issues for the deal.  

• Finalize terms and conditions with customer 

• Deliver executable contracts 

• Ensure customer commitment and signature 

• Receive and review signed contracts 

• Ensure internal contractual closure and booking process 

• People Leadership (within a Matrix) 

• Strong Business acumen  

• Results focused – driving business performance / achieving against targets 

• Strategic mindset  

• Strong Relationship management 

• Commercial awareness 

• Strong Influencing skills 

• Ability to define & analyse comprehensive amounts of information (e.g. on existing contracts, previous purchase, customer history) 

• Influence and support documentation for competitive financial models (e.g., cash flow, NPV, deal comparisons, etc.) to use as comparative tools to grow opportunity 

• Coordinate various IFS Teams (e.g. Rev Rec, Contracts, Pricing, Finance) deal involvement and input/evaluation  

• Support commercial structure addressing competition and customer requests while preserving revenue recognition and  IFS value 

• Devise strategy for pricing and discount structure to maximize value 

• Lives the IFS Values 

Essential: 

• Highly experienced individual with background in Enterprise Software Sales 

• Strong backgrounds in creating, growing and closing strategic and/or complex opportunities 

• experience in coordinating internal stakeholders to support the account teams during the ongoing customer negotiations, including commercial aspects of the deal structure 

• Enterprise Sales Background, with strong Legal and Rev Rec understanding.  

This role can be based in Singapore or Dubai