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Solution Lead is a key role in the CIS Pre-Sales organization reporting into Head of Presales in the region. Solution Lead is usually 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 stakeholder management and visibility 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 analysed and distributed for solutioning, without gaps or duplication
• Designs the solution and ensures the relevant solution artefacts are completed in line with global process
• Excellent understanding of the competitor landscape, providing insight into the sales plan on how to beat competition
• Provide expertise on commercially structuring deals to differentiate from the competition
• Works with financial Analyst to create pricing structure and 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
• Contributes 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 negotiation of solution related schedules (SoW, SLA etc.)
• Manages solution team and ensures solution related deliverables 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

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Qualifications & Experience

Customer engagement

• Requirement for client facing skills having executive client-facing experience.
• Able to articulate both transformational and managed services elements of deals
• Strong presentational and communication skills; ability to lead / anchor client conversations; ability to pitch at right depth to different internal/external audiences
• Ability to articulate value, differentiation, 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 manage and coach team through tough deadlines
• Stakeholder management, engagement, and socialisation; Senior solution leads have strong skills in handling organisational conflict across various parts of the organisation
• Proficient in the Pre-Sales Solutioning Process lead by 3rd Party Advisors (e.g. ISG, PWC)

Technical

• Breadth across all towers; typically, some depth within 2 towers (like Datacenter and Cloud tower, End user services tower, Enterprise service management tower, Security tower) via previous role; ability to challenge & understand responses across the technical landscape.
• Ability to understand contracts & schedules and ability to draft solution related contract schedules,
• Risk identification, treatment and management,
• Negotiation skills (including with subcontractors),

Financial

• Support Client business case creation,
• Support price shaping, benchmarking, pricing models
• Cost analysis, drive competitiveness,
• Cost breakdown & what-if analysis

What you’ll love about working here

• You will be a part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. You will love the exposure to the scale of transformation, the depth of expertise, and the opportunities for growth.
• We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.
• At the heart of our mission is your career growth. You will have countless learning and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications crafted to support you in exploring a world of opportunities.
• We realise a Total Reward package should be more than just compensation. We offer a range of core and flexible benefits and have a Peer Recognition Portal called ‘Celebrate’.

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