Business Value Consultant

Information Technology

Melbourne, Australia

Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!

Role

As a Business Value Consultant, you will develop and execute strategies that build pipeline opportunities, drive growth, and efficiencies within your assigned sales district. You will work with the sales management teams to develop an account strategies and assist in determining multi-year plans to expand Splunk's portfolio across the key buying centers and into the lines of business. Strategic priorities and execution will be governed by the customer’s business imperatives and mapped to Splunk's capabilities across the portfolio to meet and exceed the customer’s desired outcomes. You will also partner with our sales leaders to drive the operational cadence, consult on critical accounts and opportunities, and assist in the preparation of content to include sales campaigns, deal framing, pricing structure, and negotiation strategies.

Responsibilities

Assists with the framing of deal “psychology” within an account

Craft a value hypothesis
Earn a seat at the table at the C-Level
Build an economic foundation to eventually support a business case
Achieve our data-to-everything vision
Develop a pipeline toward what matters to our customers
Reduce year-to-year renewal risk
Value alignment, definition, creation
Includes people/skills and process gaps
Aligned to the customer’s strategic imperatives and endorsed by the Executive Buyer.
Support C-level meetings in global account base
Attend AVP forecast calls
Deal strategy, planning, and review calls
Ongoing quarterly touchpoints with customer executives
Build and position transformation programs at the account level
Define and build transformation programs and 3-year value programs in the accounts
Work in conjunction with sales and account leadership to define Splunk positioning in the account including expected revenue to increase Splunk SOW (share of wallet)
Define Splunk program in the account and work with the extended Splunk ecosystem and GSI’s (Accenture, Deloitte, E&Y) to define the program and associated sales campaigns

Requirements

10+ years of selling enterprise SaaS experience combined with leading SaaS sales teams (2nd line experience a plus)
Experience closing 7 & 8 figure software sales/SaaS deals and references to prove success.
Success with development & refinement of multi-year adoption strategy & construction of a comprehensive business case
Experience with an iACV comp model

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