Business Development Solutions Architect
About The Position
The Solutions Architect Directior champions end-to-end solution development, encompassing design, manufacturing, services, and financials, to craft compelling value propositions that secure customer wins for Celestica. This role collaborates across internal teams to gather solution details and pricing, translates customer business needs into Celestica's capabilities, and communicates technical aspects, timelines, and deliverables effectively. The Global Accounts Solutions Architect plays a pivotal role in driving client success by architecting and delivering quantifiable, technically robust, and well-documented integrated product lifecycle solutions that deliver significant value. This involves strategically assembling and leading expert teams from across Celestica's diverse business and technical domains to optimize CCS Global Account solution strategies. You will establish yourself as the trusted advisor to our customers, building strong, knowledge-driven partnerships at all levels and engaging directly with key client decision-makers in partnership with Sales and GCU leadership. Serving as the primary point of contact for Sales and GCU, you will be a vital resource for the sales organization and a subject matter expert on Mega Deal Teams.
Requirements
- Project management experience
- Person should have the following personal characteristics: strong leader, professional, hard-charging, detail-oriented, reliable, calm under fire, creative, with a can-do attitude.
- Consultative skills (ability to understand true customer needs)
- Strong solution development skills
- Good communications skills
- Distinctive problem solving leader
- Demonstrated team leadership capabilities
- 12+ years of applicable experience
- 2+ years of directly applicable solutions architect experience
- Winning percentage on deals
- Generated leads within targeted customers
- Success of unsolicited proposals
- Achieving Financial Plan
- Profit & loss responsibility highly desired
- Demonstrated capability of developing relationships and effective participation on teams
- Bachelor's degree in related field (preferably in Business or Engineering), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Educational requirements may vary by geography.
Nice To Haves
- MBA is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Leading the creation of customized solutions for Global Accounts customers
- Providing SME guidance on integrated solutions for Sales engagement teams
- Orchestrating the involvement of subject matter experts and site resources as needed for solution development and collaborating with team members to define project boundaries
- Engaging in consultative discussions with customers to gain a deep understanding of their unique requirements, communicating customer challenges internally to address in the proposed solution
- As applicable, develop value stream maps for customers highlighting end-to-end integrated solutions customer's organization
- Collaborating with financial analysts to understand the financial implications of the solution for both Celestica and the client.
- Collaborating with Systems Architects, Sales Engineers and HPS to drive technical solutions for both Celestica and the client
- Partnering with Sales and GCU teams to create compelling presentations of the solution's value
- Supporting the negotiation team by explaining the ramifications of various alternatives
- Working with sales to validate and qualify potential opportunities
- Developing unsolicited proactive proposals for strategically important customers
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
