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Precisely is an AI-first organization. All employees are expected to demonstrate proficiency in applying AI tools to accelerate their work, improve output quality, and eliminate low-value tasks. Candidates should be comfortable using generative AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT) in their day-to-day workflows, able to evaluate AI-generated outputs critically, and open to continuously adopting new AI capabilities as they emerge.
Overview:
At Precisely we have increasingly invested in ensuring sustainable client success and the Value Engineering and Business Architect (VEBA) team is an instrumental part of this process. We are seeking a Senior value advisor-Fixed Term to join the VEBA Team to replace a colleague on leave of absence. The Senior Value Advisor works directly with prospects and clients to develop success plans and multi-year roadmaps. We achieve this by leading clients through the success planning process, including conducting current-state diagnostics, building a business case, defining a roadmap, and obtaining executive buy-in. They will have deep knowledge of value case development and technology solutions and working in a software presales setting. They will be comfortable guiding senior client stakeholders through organizational, strategic, and operational issues.
What you will do:
- Contribute to driving business growth by engaging as a trusted advisor with clients at various stages of their digital transformation journeys, including:
- Collaborate with field sales teams to prepare and lead account planning session for key and strategic accounts
- Work with assigned First Line Sales Managers to identify key opportunities for VE engagement; gain AE, and customer buy-in for the engagements and ideally deliver collaborative business cases. May require up to 40% travel for on-site presence at client site, conferences, and trade-shows to build rapport and intimate engagement.
- Create Point of View documents that articulate Precisely’s value proposition specific to a key industry vertical or a cross-industry business problem. Customer collaboration, validation or at minimum audience is key criteria for successful engagement.
- Lead interviews, and discovery workshops with clients (on-site and remote) to understand their goals, profile their current maturity across various business and data functions, identify the opportunity and cost to get to best-in-class (or the desired state) of maturity
- Create high-quality deliverables that clearly articulate insights, business recommendations, solution recommendations, multi-year roadmaps and document the full business case to justify action.
- Present and validate the value proposition to various organizational levels, considering both top-down and bottom-up approaches
- Significantly contribute to evolution of the Value Engineering practice in enhancing and refining our methodology, content and tools
- Enable the Sales Engineering, Professional Services and Field teams to create simple business cases in self-service mode
- Identify and develop content for targeted vertical-specific and cross-industry Sales Plays
- Develop the VEBA brand through thought leadership, content creation, appearances, articles and social and traditional media communication
- Ability to influence the opinions and decisions of clients and sales leaders using understanding of client’s organizational processes and best-in-class maturity knowledge
- Target, cultivate, and manage high-level client relationships (e.g. C-level, VP, or Director) to build influence and intervene upon the account team’s request
- Has high-level familiarity with the data management marketplace i.e. competitors like Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Stibo et al
What we are looking for:
Required:
The ideal candidate will have experience in one or more of the following functional areas: Data Management, Sales and Marketing, Supply Chain Management, Sourcing, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Working Capital Management, Strategy consulting experience. Experience in the following industries is also beneficial: Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom, Utilities, Retail, CPG, Manufacturing, and Oil and Gas
Other qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) required, MBA or equivalent degree required from accredited university highly preferred
- 10+ years of professional experience in one of more- data management, managing a line-of-business, management consulting, or value
- Demonstrated experience in a software sale, and/or consulting environment. Experience selling into technology-enabled strategic initiatives is a plus
- Strong storytelling, presentation, facilitation, and organizational skills
- Excellent visual communication skills
- Demonstrated business development skills in software and related industries
- Strong business and financial acumen applied to business problem-solving and building a case for change
- Ability to collaborate with various team members in a remote team environment and share best practices regularly
- Travel is required: Approximately 40%
AI Skills/Knowledge:
- Ability to leverage GenAI to perform research, content creation, and auto-generation of content to the extent possible
- Willingness to create AI agents to accelerate the VE tasks
- Collaborate with other teams to create AI based tools to democratize VE tools in the field.
Preferred Skills:
- Prior experience of aiding in creation of AI tools for VE
This position is 100% remote anywhere in the US
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