Principal, Business Development - Financial Services

TELUS Digital • Durham, NC

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.
With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.
From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.
Location and Flexibility
This role will be in a Work From Near (Hybrid) capacity based in one of the following offices: Boston, MA, Columbus, OH, Charlottesville, VA, or Durham, NC, OR in a Work From Anywhere (Remote) capacity with travel to clients and TELUS Digital Solutions offices expected.
The Opportunity
The Principal, Business Development role is responsible for leading relationships with key strategic accounts and for cultivating relationships with key prospective accounts. This role will focus on our Financial Services industry vertical. The Principal will ensure that all aspects of account work, from strategic development to execution, exceed client expectations. While working with Business Development and Marketing leadership on a combination of product, brand, market, and sales strategies, the Principal will coordinate new leads, field new business opportunities, and win new business.
TELUS Digital Solutions' Business Development team encompasses a range of skilled professionals who drive innovation and growth on the front lines of client engagement. As a team, we rally around three distinct areas in the client journey map: Prospecting, Pursuit, and Expansion. A few responsibilities across our team include: identifying new relationships and opportunities, nurturing ongoing relationships with client partners, contracting agreements, writing proposals, pitching our services to prospective clients, and more.

Requirements

• Deep experience in a digital product professional services agency/consultancy engaged with F5000-level Financial Services client accounts
• Balance of both growth strategy project work as well as operational project responsibilities, including digital transformation. In addition, the ideal candidate has had the opportunity to manage teams and multiple work streams
• Ability to identify and characterize business issues, while demonstrating a ‘nose for value’ to discern what is important
• Scope and plan underlying analyses that will yield critical answers to the questions at hand. Understand the required data to complete the analysis and procure them accordingly. Deliver timely, zero-defect execution of analysis. Leverage quantitative tools for the analytical "heavy lifting.” Analyze data and translate findings into meaningful insights and recommendations
• Ability to communicate effectively and succinctly, both verbally and on paper, and across all levels of an organization. The ideal candidate excels in client relationships/communication and possesses the executive presence to influence appropriate senior stakeholders

Nice To Haves

• An engineering or computer science degree/background
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration

Responsibilities

• Identify target accounts to optimize services and communicate TELUS Digital's capabilities to clients
• Competently articulate product features to implement technology solutions successfully
• You’ll collaborate with our Solutions Architects and Product teams to craft executive-level proposals, pitches, and SOWs for prospective and existing clients
• Cultivate and extend existing C-level relationships with current clients
• You’ll team up with our delivery leadership to respond to opportunities and team-sell through RFP responses or other types of sales cycles
• Advise TELUS Digital’s internal teams on industry and vendor trends to remain well-positioned to assist our clients
• You must have the ability to travel up to 25% for client visits, pitches, and conferences

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees