Senior Consultant: IoT Solutions Sales at MTN Nigeria

Mission/ Core purpose of the Job


The Senior Consultant – IoT solution Sales will be responsible for Innovating and developing IoT solutions portfolio, aligned to priority industry sector and customer needs to deliver new revenue streams, working closely with KAM and B2B account and sales teams in Nigeria and potentially across MTN OpCo's.
Key Deliverables

Pre-sales

Identification of customer opportunities
Collaboration between Sales, Marketing, Solutions Design and External partners
Own forecasting of acquisition, retention numbers and stock required within assigned accounts
Drive achievement of sales, retention, customer development and revenue targets for the assigned accounts
Improve service delivery processes and systems
Demonstration of MTNs values and living of its Brand
Sales Planning


Plan and execute a go-to-market strategy for target industry verticals, regions and segments in line with IoT sales strategy.
Execute the IoT sales strategy to meet set goals ensuring that targets are exceeded
Work with account managers to build and manage a healthy sales pipeline focused on driving revenue, adoption and market penetration across regions and segments.
Deliver accurate business metrics, monthly forecasts and pipeline development reports.
Business Development

complex and strategic deals and influence new IoT strategic opportunities by engaging with key business and technical contacts, understanding customers' business and technology priorities, governance, decision, and budget processes, and landing the value proposition of Eseye platform, including ISV's we will be onboarding.
customer trust with technical expertise in identity and management solutions, communications & productivity platforms, and AI solutions.
as subject matter expert for IoT, navigating complex deal orchestration, supporting competitor displacement opportunities, and sharing proven practices with field sellers through readiness and coaching to accelerate sales opportunities and engage confidently at CxO level to present your findings and initiatives.
IoT opportunities with creative deal strategies, POCs, demos and storytelling that overcome customer challenges, while leveraging core team stakeholders (Marketing, Partners, Engineering, FastTrack, Biz Desks.)
and expand Eseye platform functionalities with Customer Business Decision Makers and support sales teams.
KAM and GAM of the team on IoT and lead the community to foster best practice sharing.
engineering and product groups with closed loop feedback supporting refining the sales process and product updates
IoT use cases workshops as per GTM strategy
Product Development

Drive the enhancement of solutions in terms of creativity and innovation.
Contribute to the pre-sales process by working with solution architects to create best solution designs for customers.
Interface with both internal and external IoT industry experts to anticipate customer needs and facilitate solutions development.
Support Product teams with the development and execution of external strategic IoT portfolio partnerships to efficiently deliver solutions on time
Collaborate across internal functional teams within the ICT Business to enable the development of solutions necessary to drive the desired business outcomes for customers.
Provide customer feedback to Product Owners on product performance; and support the roll-out of new products.
Governance and Risk Management

Maintain alignment to the Group sales and Presales architect processes.
Comply with relevant MTN policies and procedures.
Implement proper controls and processes to minimise revenue leakage.
Appropriate implementation of DoA.
Education:

Fluent in language of country with basic command of English.
Minimum of 4-year tertiary qualification/ degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ MIS/ Maths or a related field or equivalent experience
MBA/ Masters advantageous
Experience:

Min of 10 plus of experience in ICT
Minimum of 8 years of IoT and technology-related sales management or business development experience.
Manager track record of 5 years or more; with at least 3 years in the Operational technology of IOT
Deep domain experience in one or two industry verticals is essential, in line with the IOT vertical specialisation in the industry
Min Experience of 3 years in working with IOT technology companies like ABB, GE, Schneider, or similar environments is key
Technical experience of enterprise architecture and delivery experience in IOT solutions are advantageous
Ability to lead a consultative, TCO lead, technical sell for a min of 3 years.
7 + years of experience in enterprise sales.

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