Business Solution Strategist
Pure Storage
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Posted:
August 18, 2023
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Onsite
About the position
The Business Solution Strategist (BSS) role at Pure Storage is a pivotal position within the Strategic Pursuit Practice (SPP) team. The BSS collaborates with account teams and extended teams to synthesize technology, business, and market trends into forward-looking insights for strategic global customers. This role combines design thinking, strategy consulting, and enterprise architecture to deliver tangible value selling assets. The BSS plays a crucial role in articulating Pure's transformational relevance and value, exerting thought leadership, and unlocking long-term opportunities for net new pipeline.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate cross-functional sales and account teams on high-profile engagements, executive presentations, and workshops.
- Support Strategic Pursuit Leads, Sales Leadership, and Global Account Managers by providing deep customer insight and perspective, while coaching with constructive feedback to help develop capabilities and understanding.
- Facilitate the 'Art of the Possible' in Account Planning Sessions for strategic pursuits.
- Build and deliver 'Pure Points of View' (compelling C-level story and value statements demonstrating potential relevance of Pure to the customer).
- Drive big deal thinking, best practice sharing, and extended team collaboration.
- Increase the value for delivery of complex solutions by ensuring key VP and CXO stakeholders are fully engaged and aware of the value of Pure.
- Support pipeline creation for Strategic Pursuits (>$10M+), ensuring current and future targets are exceeded.
- Help develop and manage a programmatic capability including all relevant artifacts to help scale to additional strategic pursuits.
- Align to the SPP engagement and operating models to ensure a consistent and defined programmatic approach to assess, develop, and help close strategic pursuits.
- Represent Pure in senior customer-facing roles, i.e. executive sponsor, business strategist.
Requirements
- Senior executive background with a strong industry network
- Min 15+ years of experience in the IT industry
- Demonstrated extensive experience with value selling, driving and delivering major transformational solutions including IT Operations, Outsourcing, Offshoring and Commercial models
- Experience building and delivering 'C' Level messaging and points of view
- Consultative experience into Enterprise and Global accounts and working in a complex matrixed environment
- Experience developing and growing 'C' Level relationships
- Practical understanding of the financial and technical challenges faced with running modern day IT operations at large corporations
- Ability to communicate and simplify complex topics
- Excellent Technical and Business writing and presentation skills
- Understanding of Business Operations (financial accounting, ROI, TCO, budget planning, organizational design)
- Excellent presentation skills including public speaking, meeting facilitation and whiteboarding
- Project Management skills an asset
- Enthusiastic self-starter with an outgoing personality
- Comfortable working both independently and with a team
- Strong customer facing and relationship building skills
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $194,000-311,000
- Incentive pay and/or equity eligibility
- Flexible time off
- Wellness resources
- Company-sponsored team events
- Pure Equality program supporting employee resource groups
- Pure Good Foundation for volunteering and grants
- Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer
- Support for individuals with disabilities
- Personal information privacy protection