Strategic Pursuit Specialist, APAC

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Strategic Partnership Pursuit/ Partnership Program

The global Strategic Partnership Pursuit team drives long-term transformational business success for our customers and Adobe. Armed with world class cloud solutions, your role is to unlock the potential of enterprise customers by demonstrating clear business value accelerating their Digital Transformation success. High level customer satisfaction is a key measure, as are revenue and consumption targets.

The Strategic Pursuit Specialist team is accountable for responsible for providing financial and business guidance which includes a range of deliverables centered around commercial strategy, competitive analysis & positioning, profitability, negotiation, and strategic investment helping to inspire confidence in customers and partners.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the development of the commercial strategy and deal structure, partnering with ecosystem in the deal structuring for strategic, complex, or highly competitive commercial opportunities.

• Cultivate an active pipeline of forecasted sales to meet and exceed quarterly, and annual quota objectives.

• Handle, coordinate, collaborate and work with various cross-functional groups within Adobe (Product, Marketing, Legal, Finance) to successfully run the entire sales cycle.

• Facilitate detailed opportunity assessments with sales leadership and support development of an end-to-end program strategy (i.e. sequence of events, team RACI, Comms Strategy).

• Conduct proactive gap analysis to identify risks and opportunities within each deal cycle, and provide recommendations to sales leadership on how best to address.

• Daily Reporting and opportunity tracking system updates.

• Analysing customer requests and using PowerPoint or Excel to translate innovative commercial proposals into digestible formats to address unique customer needs.

Preferred qualifications:

• Extensive enterprise-level software experience, preferably within web technology and/or digital marketing solutions with commercial experience working on cloud related sales, consulting and licensing.

• Experience working in highly matrixed organizations, with cross-functional stakeholders, passionate about measuring key objectives within a team environment.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the ability to translate analysis and insights into actionable business plans.

• Proven record of success and a history of exceeding quota.

• Strong project management, written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting to internal executive stakeholders.

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely. If you’re looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you. Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer.

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