Borders Sales Consultant
Singapore 508723, Singapore
Job Description
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Overview: The role of Borders Sales Specialist is a key role to grow Borders business globally. The Borders Specialist will be accountable for engaging with customers in collaboration with the sales & business development team. The aim for this role is to achieve new business growth, customer retention, revenue targets and client satisfaction goals in relation to products/ solutions assigned.
The Borders Sales Specialist should become the business and technology subject matter expert to orchestrate customer engagements and build trust with borders agencies and SITA stakeholders to be able to position SITA\xe2\x80\x99s value and execute Border\xe2\x80\x99s Go-to-Market Model from market making/ shaping, going through opportunity creation, to sales/ bidding (qualification to close) and finally post sales health checks.
What you will do
- Business growth: Work with Borders Product manager and local/ regional sales & business development team to achieve profitable business growth in the assigned products/ solutions. Generate new leads and identify opportunities within assigned products/ Solutions for new and existing Borders accounts globally.
- Maintain healthy pipeline of qualified, active opportunities and manage them closely with the Product and local/ regional sales & business development team to ensure the growth sales plan is executed as per set strategy.
- Market making, shaping and relationships: maintain strong industry interaction, stay up to date with latest market trends & technologies related border management, and focus on keeping close customer intimacy connecting with government influencers, decision makers, business partners, and border management industry associations.
- Drive early customer engagement and prospecting effort with local/ regional sales & business development team to build strong pipeline, contribute to customer opportunity reviews, lead workshops, participate in industry event, represent SITA as speaker and be team player in developing complex borders solutions to meet customer needs.
- Pipeline qualification and set deal strategy: Lead the collaboration with the local/ regional sales & business development team to increase in the number and value of qualified the Borders opportunities through strong customer interactions, suggest tactics, pricing, competitive positioning, and ideas to incorporate into the selling strategies.
- Work with the local/ regional sales & business development team to stay focused on annual sales plans, active opportunities from creation to close. Make sure the local/ regional Sales & business development team can always keep accurate information and report all aspects of account and opportunity information within a Sales Force automation, to accurately report on forecast/pipeline.
- Assist the local/ regional sales & business development team with active opportunities, ensuring that the appropriate business solution is included in the proposal and engage the right Borders resources at the right time. Respond to requests for information and requests for proposal. Guide the local/ regional Sales & Business Development team to current collateral, references guides, value statements and presentations.
- Competitive intelligence: Gather market intelligence and share the knowledge with related product, the local/ regional sales & business development team and leverage SITA existing communications and collaboration platform/ tools to spread the know-how. Contribute to Borders Monthly Newsletter.
- Understand customer pain points: Active listening, capture and communicate customer objections and outline the ideal responses to frequently asked customer questions. Help in reducing unproductive engagements, strengthen field marketing outbound messages and influence product development to create future offerings. Provide input from the field of potential additions to product features and customer experiences.
- Customer success stories: In collaboration with marketing, product management and the local/ regional sales & business development team, develop and communicate customer case studies or other success stories by showing where and how SITA\xe2\x80\x99s Border management solutions was implemented and the value SITA brought to the customer making travel easy, seamless and secure.
The individual should ideally have the following professional competency and experience:
- Minimum of 5 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in consultative selling, business development and managing large complex deal.
- Good understanding of border management solutions, where multiple solutions are required for complex stakeholders\xe2\x80\x99 engagement and business commercial model.
- Good understanding of seamless traveler journey, digital pre-clearance, borders dynamics, integrated borders, identity management, advance risk assessmentGood understanding of end-to-end passenger journey and solutions related to border crossing, Travel Authorization (eVisa, ETA), Biometrics (fingerprints, face, iris), API, PNR, iAPI, Border Control (front/end/ backend), ABC Gates/ Kiosks, Risk assessment engines, watchlists systems, name matching and biometrics matching engines.
- Knowledge of industry stakeholder\xe2\x80\x99s role such as ICAO, IATA, United Nations, Interpol, US CBP, IOM, OSCE, EU Directives, IBMATA, etc.
- Educational Background in Engineering, IT, telecom, finance, or equivalent business experience
- Experience in selling to governments is essential
- Willingness to travel
- Selling to multiple countries and dealing with multicultures
- Very strong stakeholder engagement skills.
- Track record of achieving business growth.
- English fluent and other languages are plus
- Strong communications skills and ability to interact with C-Level executives (internal & external) to clearly articulate and negotiate complex and high value business propositions.
- Understand financial acumen, link and articulate T&Cs impacts to financial results and vice versa
- Strong presentation skills.
- Experience of working in a matrix environment, liaising with different teams to drive overall business success.
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Job IdJD1305253
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationSingapore 508723, Singapore
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EducationNot mentioned