Sales Director - SURE

Infosys is hiring a Sales Director to focus on hunting and implement pro-active New Business Development activities for our Energy, Resources and Professional Services practice across Canada.

The Senior Sales Director will grow net new business and a strategic new enterprise account pipeline. Requires understanding of market and competition to develop appropriate sales strategies and apply the sales and solution expertise, in conjunction with project teams. A good Sales Hunter is keen to get their hands dirty and actively helps the team develop value propositions based on a firm understanding of opportunity areas at, Energy, Utilities and Natural Resources firms.

Description:

• Responsible for identifying and closing new deals in the energy, oil and gas, resources domain
• Be the face of Infosys to the market and help position Infosys as an industry leader and trusted advisor
• Leverage the Infosys ecosystem of capabilities across technology practices, industry verticals and service lines to develop solutions that address the client's business problems
• Ground-breaking force behind developing platform solutions specifically geared energy and natural resources accounts

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• 7+ years of experience, with strong sales experience in service industry
• Understanding of Global Delivery Model (offshore/outsourcing) and large deal experience
• Minimum of 5-7 years of relevant new business development experience selling IT services
• Track record of interacting and building relationship with CXOs of leading organization
• Hands-on experience with proposal creation and leading proposal presentation
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

• History of achieving/overachieving new account sales targets
• Experience in S/W contract negotiations
• Experience with competitor mapping and SWAT analysis
• Ability to define specific and ground-breaking solutions within abstract environments
• Well networked within the IT services industry, energy with strong oil and gas connections
• Ability to identify upcoming RFPs / deals by networking with key client partners