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Provides Commercial Architecture support on Client opportunities by providing best-in-class commercial thought leadership, modeling, risk management, and commercial innovation to optimize both our win chances and profitability of Priority High-Value Services

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Position Summary & Objectives:

Commercial Architecture

• Provide the commercial lead on client opportunities within the EU region with a focus on maximizing profit, identifying, and mitigating risks, increasing win rates, and delivering commercial innovation to ensure client needs are met and exceeded.

• Lead with commercial innovation and commercial thought leadership in Client opportunities to differentiate NTT from our competition.

• Develop new commercial models to provide a competitive advantage to NTT whilst satisfying the needs of our clients

• Build close and strong working relationships with all Service Divisions to ensure a clear understanding of services, costs, margins, and risks that exist on each opportunity from both parties.

• Responsible for completion of:

• Commercial Model

• Client Pricing templates

• Risk Register

• P&L

• Cash flow forecast

• Asset Financing (where required)

• Undertake an agency treatment assessment for each opportunity to identify which elements of the deal, if any, can be treated as an agency

• Ownership of the overall risk of the opportunity, whilst identifying areas of risk mitigation

• Peer-to-peer review and brainstorming to ensure alternative views and possibilities are considered at each opportunity.

Commercial Assurance and Governance

• Responsible for ensuring the required Commercial Governance is followed and completed at the following levels

• Country

• Region (where required)

• Service Division (where required)

• Group level (where required)

• Presentation of the Commercial section of the Client opportunity on the above forums

• Work closely with the EU Service Delivery Assurance and Legal to ensure alignment on their respective assurance processes

• Use the standardized templates

Country Support

• Provide Client facing support to the sales community

• Provide training to the wider country teams on commercial elements that they would benefit from being aware of/trained upon

• Build relationships with the country teams

• Work with the country teams to ensure they are clear on the process to follow regarding engagement of Commercial resourcing

• Attend country qualification/governance meetings

• Provide handover of the commercial model, commitments, and terms to the accountable in-country teams

Requirements: Education, Training, and Experience:

• Being fluent in English, or any other European language skills is a significant benefit

• Minimum of 10 years’ commercial architecture/management experience in a multi-national organization ideally within the IT or Telecoms industry.

• Experience of building complex commercial models and P&L’s

• Client-facing experience

• Finance based University degree (or higher)

• Advantageous if qualified in or studying towards a Finance qualification such as CIMA or ACCA

• Able to demonstrate a deep understanding of financial and accounting practices

• Advanced Excel skills, Intermediate in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

Personal Attributes and Skills Required:

• Commercially minded with the ability to multitask numerous projects within a pressurized and time-sensitive environment

• Highly motivated self-starter with an excellent level of attention to detail

• Global Mindset - Cross-cultural awareness; Comfortable in multi-cultural teams;

• Communication Skills - Writing; Listening; Presentation; interpersonal skills; Persuasion; Ability to successfully negotiate & influence to achieve objectives

• Tenacity & Self-motivation - Stands up for principles; Is resilient; Self-motivated, ability to work unsupervised as well as being able to work as part of a team in a global and sometimes pressured environment; Proactive, flexible attitude to work with a willingness to constantly review and improve skills

• High Emotional Intelligence - Regulates own emotions; Active Listening; Inspires trust; Having integrity; Uses feedback; Team Player

• Excellent networking and relationship-building skills with the ability to collaborate at all levels within the organization

• Strong analytical, organizational, presentation, and leadership skills

• A “people driver” capable of gaining buy-in, achieving results, and managing conflicting interests across multiple areas of the business

• Ability to successfully negotiate and influence to achieve objectives and be comfortable in a facilitation role

• Occasional European travel required

Skills Summary

Client Relationship Management, Contract Negotiations, Financial Acumen, Pricing Models, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management

What will make you a good fit for the role?

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A career at NTT means:

• Being part of a global pioneer – where you gain exposure to our Fortune 500 clients and world-leading global technology partners and work with a network of over 40,000 smart and diverse colleagues across 57 countries, delivering services in over 200 countries.

• Being at the forefront of cutting-edge technology – backed with a 150-year heritage of using technology for good. With 40% of the world’s internet traffic running on our network and where Emoji were first invented, you can be proud of the group’s many new ‘firsts’.

• Making a difference – by doing meaningful work that helps to shape the future for our clients, and across industries and communities around the world.

• Being your best self – in a progressive ‘Connected Working’ environment that promotes flexibility, connection and wellbeing. Where diversity and different perspectives are embraced to ensure equal opportunities for all.

• Having ongoing opportunities to own and develop your career – with a personal and professional development plan and access to the broadest learning offerings in the industry.