The Senior Cloud Client Partner is an advanced subject matter expert and is also a quota-bearing sales persona. This role has the primary responsibility to work with services teams to identify, develop, and close managed service and outsourcing deals. This role is recognized as the client's trusted cloud managed services advisor and applies consulting led sales skills to engage and close opportunities with decision-makers. This role works directly with clients at a variety of levels, as well as other internal sales and delivery expert teams such as Client Managers and pre-sales services-type architects and post the sale; the delivery teams that will manage the client's outsourced solution. Deals often involve alignment on business outcome led multi-product/multi-vendor cloud solutions with services. This role ‘champions' the delivery teams' understanding of the client's solution requirements, and initiates improvement programs ensuring that the client remains committed to solutions which leads to more sales opportunities. Building and developing excellent stakeholder relationships with clients, fully understanding the client and the industry in which they operate will be a core focus of this role. The focus of this role remains on converting the client to a managed services client resulting in multi-year renewals; deals may involve a long sales cycle. As a Senior Cloud Client Partner, this role has the opportunity to partner with some of the biggest global organizations, helping them to convert to new business models.