Managing Director, Technology Solutions Sales Leader, North America (Strategic & Large Deals - VP Level)

NTT DATA • Raleigh, NC

1d • Remote

About The Position

Continue to make an impact with a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. At NTT DATA, we are renowned for our technical excellence, leading innovations, and making a difference for our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion – it’s a place where you can continue to grow, belong, and thrive.

Your career here is about believing in yourself and seizing new opportunities and challenges. It’s about expanding your skills and expertise in your current role and preparing yourself for future advancements. That’s why we encourage you to take every opportunity to further your career within our great global team.
Your day at NTT DATA
The Big Deal Sales Executive owns NTT DATA’s most strategically significant and complex technology services deals. This role exists to increase win probability, accelerate velocity, protect long-term value, and institutionalize repeatable excellence across large, multi-tower pursuits.
This is a senior sales executive role with direct deal accountability. The leader is expected to operate at the intersection of client strategy, commercial shaping, delivery realism, and internal governance. They lead from the front, stay hands-on in the deal, and set the standard for how NTT DATA wins its most important opportunities.
This role is central to converting NTT DATA’s full-stack capabilities into executable, defensible, and scalable transformation programs for clients.
In This Job, you will:
Own the end-to-end strategy, structure, and execution of NTT DATA’s largest and most complex deals
Shape opportunities early to influence outcomes before positions harden
Enforce discipline, clarity, and governance without introducing bureaucracy
Protect margin, delivery outcomes, and client relationships over the full deal lifecycle
Create repeatable deal patterns that scale beyond individual heroics
Deal Scope and Complexity
Strategic pursuits typically exceeding $10M to $50M+ TCV, often multi-year
Multi-tower scope spanning consulting, transformation, cloud, applications, data and AI, infrastructure, security, and managed services
Complex commercial structures including consumption models, outcome-based constructs, and layered risk profiles
Board, executive, and enterprise-wide visibility
High financial, operational, and reputational exposure
This role serves as the senior deal authority and escalation point across qualification, shaping, approval, negotiation, and transition to delivery.

Requirements

• 10+ years of enterprise technology services sales and deal leadership experience
• Proven ownership of large, complex, multi-year transformation deals
• Demonstrated success operating at C-suite level with executive credibility
• Deep understanding of full-stack technology services and operating models
• Strong commercial, financial, and negotiation acumen
• Experience leading through influence in highly matrixed environments

Responsibilities

• Own the deal from first signal through contract execution and handoff
• Personally lead opportunity qualification and ensure alignment to strategic, financial, and delivery thresholds
• Define win strategy, executive narrative, commercial posture, and risk allocation
• Make hard calls on where to invest, where to slow down, and when to walk away
• Engage early with clients to connect executive North Stars to NTT DATA’s consulting and transformation capabilities
• Shape integrated solutions that move clients from point solutions to platforms and long-term programs
• Drive outcome-based selling supported by value engineering and ROI articulation
• Ensure deals are technically coherent, commercially sound, and delivery-ready before signature
• Operate as a trusted advisor to CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, COOs, CFOs, and business executives
• Lead executive workshops, transformation roadmap discussions, and decision forums
• Personally lead proposal defenses and final negotiations
• Shift client perception from vendor to long-term strategic partner
• Own and operate the strategic deal governance model in alignment with CGO, Industry, Practices, and Corporate functions
• Run disciplined decision cadence across qualification, shaping, approvals, and risk reviews
• Clarify decision rights, accountability, and escalation paths
• Demonstrate control without bureaucracy
• Lead global, matrixed pursuit teams across sales, consulting, delivery, finance, legal, security, and partners
• Align internal stakeholders around a single deal strategy and operating plan
• Resolve friction quickly and decisively to maintain momentum
• Ensure seamless transition from pursuit to execution
• Integrate hyperscalers, OEMs, and strategic partners into the core deal strategy
• Shape joint value propositions and co-selling motions that strengthen differentiation
• Balance partner dependency with delivery and margin protection
• Safeguard margin, scope integrity, and delivery outcomes beyond contract signature
• Ensure deals are structured to scale and expand, not collapse under execution pressure
• Capture lessons learned and institutionalize best practices across future pursuits

Benefits

• This position is eligible for company benefits that will depend on the nature of the role offered.
• Company benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, life, and AD&D insurance, short-and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally required benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed