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Avanade

Business Development Executive, Midwest Region - Financial Services

Avanade, St Louis, Missouri, United States,


Business Development Executive - Midwest - Financial Services Industry

Avanade seeks a Business Development Manager who is a strategic seller and self-starter who can develop and win new business in a complex consulting environment with sophisticated technology solutions. For this role, we are looking for people with experience in selling digital transformation and consulting services (e.g. cloud implementation, business applications integration, etc.) to Enterprise Financial Services Industry Clients.

Come join us

Are you the one who isn’t afraid to break the mold and who gets passionate about the power of digital to transform organizations and ways of working? We are building teams of people to help our clients unlock the power they need now and own what is next. You'll cultivate meaningful relationships, drive business growth, and lead with a forward-thinking approach to client satisfaction and success. Together we do what matters.

What you’ll do

Drive new and incremental revenue by prospecting, acquiring, and developing new and fast-growing business with clients in your area of expertise.

Build a pipeline for growth and closing business, including statements of work and contracts.

Foster integration Microsoft and partners to enhance client value

Manage and expand strategic client relationships, including C-Suite engagements

Lead cross-functional teams to deliver tailored solutions for clients

Drive account growth through innovative business development strategies and execution of comprehensive account planning

Maintain Financial Services knowledge including market trends, contending offerings and current penetration of services and solutions.

Skills and experiences

Experience with solution selling to Financial Services clients

Experience with Microsoft, and other partners to grow their book of business

Success as a Business development Hunter with sophisticated closure capabilities

Ability to drive an end-to-end sales process from origination to close.

Ability to act as a trusted advisor to C-Suite in addressing our client’s business needs

Proven ability to use customer feedback for continuous improvement

Strategic mindset with a focus on overcoming obstacles, driving critical initiatives and vision realization

About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role:

Identifies as a self-starter who develops and wins new business in a complex consulting environment with sophisticated technology solutions

Takes ownership and encourage others to make a positive impact

Works collaboratively with energy, drive and dedication to overcome obstacles to achieve your goals.

Has superb interpersonal skills and can establish strong relationships

Anticipates and neutralizes obstacles and objections

Is a skillful influencer of internal and external resources

Demonstrates mature and humble leadership and communicates priorities and expectations effectively

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade:

Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth

Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits - [1] Employee Benefits at Avanade | Avanade

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on:

Expanding your thinking

Experimenting courageously

Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by:

Empowering every voice

Encouraging boldness

Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by:

Amazing the client

Prioritizing what matters

Acting as one

Learn more

To learn more about Avanade check out these links:

[3] Avanade Careers

[4] Employee Benefits

[5] LinkedIn

[6] Inside Avanade Blog

Compensation for roles at Avanade varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. As required by local law, Avanade provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Illinois and Minnesota as set forth below:

Role Location - Range of starting pay for role:

Illinois: $120,000 - $142,500

Minnesota: $120,000 - $142,500

References

Visible links

https://www.avanade.com/en/career/benefits

https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity

http:// https://www.avanade.com/en/career/search-jobs

http:// https://www.avanade.com/en/career/benefits

https://www.linkedin.com/company/avanade

https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Avanade believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities, and we do not discriminate against our employees, applicants, or job seekers because of their race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other protect group status as defined by law.